Category: Business Intelligence News

VAI Enhances S2K Analytics with Financial Business Intelligence Capabilities

Oct 26, 2011 | Analytics, Business Intelligence News | 0 comments

New Comprehensive Dashboards Help Companies Make Educated Financial Decisions

Ronkonkoma, N.Y. – October 25, 2011 – VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.), an award-winning ERP software provider, today announced the release of its enhanced S2K Analytics solution, a comprehensive, web-based Business Intelligence (BI) tool designed to drive smarter, faster business decisions. This upgraded tool features ten new financial management dashboards that provide an in-depth view of financial data from all levels of the organization.

Designed to meet the needs of VAI’s customers, regardless of size or industry, S2K Analytics integrates with S2K Enterprise and features automated reporting and dashboard capabilities that give customers big-picture visibility into their revenue and profitability. The new dashboards provide at-a-glance insight into a company’s financial performance, allowing for customization and consolidation of data that can then be used to make educated decisions. With the enhanced S2K Analytics, VAI customers can:

View balance sheets, and P&L statements
Analyze profitability of their business
Monitor procurement and expense management
Create ad hoc self-serve inquiries
Build reports and dashboards as well as share information with others
Integrate S2K Analytics with Excel
Collaborate on and contribute to new reporting needs
Access information through a web browser, including mobile devices
Compare past financial performance

“VAI is excited to offer an even more comprehensive BI tool to our customers,” said Joe Scioscia, vice president of sales, VAI. “We are committed to continually innovating our products in order to provide our customers with best-in-class software that streamlines business processes and creates cost efficiencies. The upgraded S2K Analytics will undoubtedly enhance our customers’ ability to use the information gathered through our ERP software to make even more effective, real-time business decisions.”

About VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.)

VAI is an award-winning software developer and an IBM Premier Business Partner. Designed for the mid-range market, S2K Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Suite is used by a wide variety of mid-sized companies worldwide, with a number of clients in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, food and related service industries. Advanced applications such as Warehouse Management Systems, EDI, CRM, Business Analytics and e-Business provide companies the power to leverage their information technology investment. VAI is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York, with branch offices in Miami, Orlando, Chicago and Oroville, California. For more information, please contact Diane Dady at 800-824-7776, ext. 236 or visit www.vai.net.

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QlikTech and Deloitte to Offer QlikView Business Discovery Solutions

Sep 15, 2011 | Business Intelligence News | 1 comment

QlikTech, a leading provider of Business Discovery, user-driven Business Intelligence, will offer their new QlikView Business Discovery platform to U.S.-based organizations in partnership with Deloitte, one of the top business, management, and technology consulting firms in the industry. This new QlikView platform is notable for its user-driven analysis capabilities that are designed to integrate traditional business intelligence with standalone office productivity applications.

The strategic partnership between QlikTech and Deloitte was formed earlier this year in the Netherlands, but is expected to expand globally. This partnership integrates QlikTech’s analytical capabilities with Deloitte’s deep industry knowledge to provide critical, user-friendly solutions to business leaders.

The QlikView Business Discovery platform expands this strategic partnership into the U.S. The U.S. strategic agreement between the two companies will leverage Deloitte’s Business Analytics and Information Management practice in industries such as health care and life sciences. Both companies will continue to invest in customizing and adding to the capabilities of QlikView solutions. Deloitte will also continue their investment in training their professionals to become QlikView developers.

The QlikView Business Discovery platform enables companies to conduct user-driven analysis that can be quickly implemented in days or weeks. QlikView Business Discovery can be easily integrated with existing BI applications and delivers business insight, mobility, reassembly, remixability, and zero-wait analysis. It is built on an app-like model to provide a social and collaborative experience to its users.

QlikTech serves over 21,000 customers in more than 100 countries and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

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Harvard Business School to Benefit from WiseWindow Business Intelligence Program

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

WiseWindow recently announced it has gifted Harvard Business School’s Baker Library a $5 million dollar program. The program will provide the library with real time data and toolsets for educational use in the development of post-graduate curriculum and research.

The new program, MOBI 2.0, (Mass Opinion Business Intelligence) is designed to help train the next generation of MBAs on how to effectively manage business in real time which is something the students have never had access to before.

The initial deployment to students and faculty was completed in early February. Harvard Business School’s MBA candidates now have full access to the MOBI platform and they are using it in their curriculum development.

The program is teaching students about real-time business decision-making and management, business economics and demand-based modeling, and in research. It also includes how to support case study-based coursework.

The Executive Director of Knowledge and Library Services at Harvard Business School, Mary Lee Kennedy said they support Harvard Business School’s mission by enabling the creation of ideas, expertise and information.

The MOBI 2.0 combines cloud computing, proprietary deep website crawling, relevance recognition and statistical natural language analysis, which provides business decision makers with the unmatched ability to identify, measure and qualify consumer intent information in real time before it turns into action.

MOBI distills the data into a pre-defined, structure database providing an up to the minute view of consumer sentiment. This is done by collecting, analyzing and classifying the billions of unbiased consumer comments made online annually from across the web.

President of WiseWindow, Marshall Toplansky, said they are thrilled to be at Harvard Business School training some of the world’s future business leaders, especially since Harvard is one of the most prestigious educational facilities in the world.

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UltiPro to Deliver Business Intelligence for Equipment Depot

Ultimate Software recently announced that Equipment Depot has selected its UltiPro to consolidate its payroll, Human Resources, compensation management, and recruitment processes into one unified solution.

Equipment Depot is a diversified equipment dealership that sells, services, rents and provides parts for many leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts, and construction equipment. They employ more than 1,450 people in 13 states in the U.S. which makes handling their scope of human capital management a challenging proposition.

Vice President of Human Resources with Equipment Depot, Leora Kirby, says as they continue to acquire new subsidiaries and grow organically, they need smarter, more agile answers to manage its business operations, especially related to Human Capital Management.

Kirby says they are in the process of combining five companies into one. The company wants one centralized payroll solution will could accommodate their current needs, as well as keep pace with their company as they grow in the future.

Equipment Depot was looking for a high-caliber HCM platform with a single database, 24-7 Web accessibility for their workforce, and end-to-end functionality and they wanted to take advantage of SaaS innovation, according to Kirby.

Equipment Depot selected UltiPro in November of 2010 and their company leadership is anxious to combine its multiple data platforms into a single, uniform solution that delivers real-time visibility across the business.

Chief Sales Officer for Ultimate Software, Greg Swick, says they are delighted that Equipment Depot has selected UltiPro for the advantages of their cloud-based HCM and they look forward to collaborating with them and sharing expertise.

Ultimate Software is a provider of unified human capital management SaaS solutions for global business. It markets its award-winning UltiPro solutions as Software-as-a-Service and is based in Weston, FL. They have nearly 1,100 professionals currently employed.

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QlikView Business Analytics Solutions Now Available from Hexaware

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Hexaware Technologies Limited recently announced that it has entered into a partnership with QlikTech, a provider of Business Intelligence software. Hexaware will now be able to deliver powerful and easy-to-use solutions based on QlikTech’s software platform QlikView. These solutions will empower customers to make faster, smarter business decisions and provide them more control over projects.

QlikTech pioneered the in-memory, associative search and analytics technology that has been the forefront of more advanced dashboards, reporting and mobile Business Intelligence applications. Their powerful technology platform also facilitates visualization of data in a simple, intuitive user interface to interactively explore and analyze information.

V.P. of Alliances at QlikTech Americas, Patrick McCue, says they are very proud to establish this partnership with a leading global system integrator like Hexaware Technologies.

McCue stated that Hexaware’s customers can now leverage best-of-breed analytics and reporting solutions based on QlikView that can address their specific needs and allow them to successfully respond to rapid changes in business conditions.

Powerful analytics and reporting tools like QlikView’s, coupled with smartly crafted business rules, can optimize the IT assets of any enterprise. This in turn can help them in making right decisions at the right time.

This partnership provides QlikTech with access to leverage Hexaware’s presence in Banking, Capital Markets, Healthcare, Insurance and Travel and Transportation verticals globally.

Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process outsourcing services that focus exclusively on maximizing client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. The company has a client base of several Global 1000 organizations and have operations located in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific. Their commitment is to provide solutions that translate into tangible business outcomes for their customers.

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Alliance Agreement for Business Intelligence Announced by Deloitte

Deloitte recently announced it has signed an alliance agreement with MicroStrategy Incorporated to develop and deliver solutions to help clients improve their information, business intelligence and analytic capabilities.

Deloitte will combine MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence technology with its broad array of consulting, advisory and implementation services to assist their mutual clients in meeting information, business intelligence and analytic needs under the new agreement.

The alliance will include collaboration on solution, service and market development, education, training, sales and delivery.

The use of information and analytics can be a critical driver of revenue and competitive differentiation and can assist management in making more effective business decisions while managing information for a strategic business advantage.

Lee Dittmar, principal for Deloitte Consulting LLP, says the increasing emphasis on analytics has significant implications for IT and business leaders and the new alliance combines Deloitte’s information management services with MicroStrategy’s software to give clients a significant advantage in accelerating their analytical programs.

As expectations continue to rise, many leaders are shifting their thinking from a tactical approach for management reporting to a more strategic approach involving analytics. Deloitte is positioned well in the information management space with a demonstrated depth and breadth of competencies to help clients deliver on their analytics vision.

MicroStrategy’s chief operating officer, Sanju Bansal, says both Deloitte and MicroStrategy recognize that business priorities are increasingly driven by the need for better and earlier insights on markets, customers, suppliers, employees, regulation and risks, and that there is a need for solutions to integrate business, industry and functional capabilities with advanced information management and analytical technologies.

MicroStrategy was founded in 1989 and is a provider of business intelligence technology. The company provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software helping organizations worldwide make better business decisions each day.

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