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Who Really "Likes" Romney? Who Really "Likes" Obama? Wisdom(TM) Knows!

Oct 26, 2012 | Computer & Electronics, Internet, Social Media, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy’s Wisdom App Analyzes the Candidates’ Facebook Fans Nationwide and in Key Swing States: Differences in “Likes” Tell a Tale of Two Americas
Wisdom Also Allows You to Create Your Own Chart of Your Friends’ Political Leanings

TYSONS CORNER, Va. (October 26, 2012) – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today delivers a compelling analysis of the Facebook fan bases of Obama and Romney across key battleground states with its Wisdom app.

Wisdom, a social intelligence platform, provides powerful insights into the overall preferences of nearly five million US-based Facebook users, representing more than 3% of the US Facebook population. These insights are based on aggregated and anonymized Facebook profiles, which include “Likes” and check-ins, as well as census data.

Wisdom currently analyzes more than 535,000 Obama and 172,000 Romney Facebook fans based in the US, and tells us, in aggregate, who they are; where they live; how old they are; what they read; what they watch; what they listen to; what they eat and drink; and where they hang out. To see a comparison of Obama and Romney Facebook fans nationwide and in eight key swing states using Wisdom data, click here.

Romney’s Facebook fans skew toward male voters, married couples, and an older age demographic, while Obama’s Facebook fans are more evenly split between male and female, are more likely to be single, and skew younger. In addition:

Romney fans drink Florida Natural, Crown Royal, Coors Light, and Budweiser; Obama fans drink Ciroc, Belvedere Vodka, Kool-Aid, Gatorade, and Dos Equis.
Romney fans eat at Chick-fil-A; Obama fans eat at McDonald’s.
Romney fans like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood; Obama fans like Jada Pinkett Smith and Bernie Mac.
Romney fans listen to Ted Nugent; Obama fans listen to Fantasia.
Romney fans watch College GameDay; Obama fans watch The Rachel Maddow Show.

“Wisdom is a tool that can yield powerful insights into the 2012 election campaign and future ones,” said Michael J. Saylor, MicroStrategy’s Chairman and CEO. “Wisdom, which generates results in seconds, helps managers in political and corporate branding campaigns decide where to target their energies in real-time.”

In the critical swing state of Ohio, Romney may want to visit Skyline Chili in Cincinnati for a meet-and-greet photo shoot, because that’s where his Facebook fans like to hang out. Or when in Cleveland, he may want to set up a guest appearance on WKYC Channel 3 – Cleveland, one of the most watched local TV channels among his fans. When Obama campaigns in Florida, he may want to visit the Wynwood Kitchen & Bar in Miami, a favorite hangout of his Facebook fans, for a meet-and-greet photo op.

Wisdom Introduces “My Network Political Leanings” Just in time for the final leg of Election 2012, Wisdom makes it easy to analyze your friends’ political leanings. The app categorizes more than 3,000 Facebook pages into Liberal and Conservative groupings to guestimate your friends’ political affiliations and ranks your friends across the Blue-to-Red political spectrum. You can also dive deeper to see which pages led to the rankings. The results can be easily shared on Facebook, Google Plus, email, etc.

For more information about Wisdom, visit https://apps.facebook.com/wisdomapp. You can also visit www.wisdom.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy’s BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

MicroStrategy and Wisdom are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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SAS Boosts Popular Business Intelligence Servers

Sep 11, 2012 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

Customers drive enhancements to SAS® Enterprise BI Server, SAS® BI Server

CARY, N.C. (September 11, 2012) – SAS’ flagship business intelligence server products now offer more display, design and navigation features than ever. The latest versions of SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server also feature new reporting and dashboard options, including enhanced customization, added data filters and more, to better showcase insights from data assets.

“SAS BI technologies anchor many customers’ business analytics strategies. Their suggestions for how SAS could provide even greater benefit have been invaluable,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “This round of enhancements is clearly customer-focused.”

Key members of the SAS Business Intelligence product family, SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server now offer increased options for conditional highlighting, drilldown, headers and footers, display items based on browser regional settings, and other new features.

SAS® Business Intelligence helps Valance control health care costs

Valence Health depends on SAS Enterprise BI Server both for its own reporting and to provide powerful self-service reporting for its customers, US health care providers.

SAS Enterprise BI Server is pivotal to Valence’s infrastructure, which helps groups of independent doctors and hospitals leverage economies of scale from clinical integration. At the same time, it helps them manage risk, bolster revenues and improve the quality of health care to patients.

“It is an absolute requirement in the current market that we provide our clients with Web-based self-service reporting. They can examine patient cost, disease management, risk stratification, case management and other information at their convenience,” said Steve Tutewohl, Valence Senior Vice President of Analytics. “SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers our customers to analyze how Valence has helped lower costs.”

Related SAS offerings

In addition to SAS BI Server products, the SAS Business Intelligence family also includes highly regarded SAS Office Analytics and SAS Visual Analytics.

SAS Office Analytics connects analytics data with Microsoft Office products to produce consistent views of data, automate reporting and add analytical insights while keeping users within well-known software interfaces.

SAS Visual Analytics, introduced earlier this year, is a high-performance, in-memory solution for exploring massive amounts of data very quickly. It enables users to spot patterns, identify opportunities for further analysis and convey visual results via Web reports or the iPad®.

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SAS® Gives Orange County Dept. of Education Clear View of Finance and Operations

Jun 07, 2012 | Computer Hardware, Technology | 0 comments

OCDE will be able to integrate and analyze data

CARY, N.C. (June 07, 2012) – Serving more than 500,000 students, California’s Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) will use SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Financial Management to improve budgeting, planning and forecasting for 28 school districts, four community college districts and four regional occupational programs. OCDE will be able to integrate and analyze financial, payroll, human resources, student and other data to better understand operations and costs.

Many disparate data sources have made it difficult for OCDE to get a clear view of operations in the past. “Historically, data living in silos has made it challenging to see the total picture,” said Louis Mazzarini, OCDE Director of Information Technology. “SAS brings experience at breaking down those silos, and that is important for OCDE.”

OCDE has broad responsibilities and requires technology that can capture and analyze all relevant data. With more than 1,400 full- and part-time employees, OCDE is also charged with providing cost-effective, centralized services. SAS Business Intelligence will integrate data from the districts and provide self-service reporting and analysis. Decision makers at the districts will spend less time looking for answers and more time driving strategic decisions. Using SAS Financial Management to consolidate planning and historical information on demand, OCDE will deliver the latest information to decision makers and regulatory agencies.

With more than 3,000 K-12 and higher education customers in more than 100 countries, and education specialists on six continents, SAS serves the education industry by delivering software solutions, strategic services and academic programs that spark innovation and expand educational opportunities.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 55,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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Los Angeles County Using SAS® to Spot Child Care Benefits Fraud, Conspiracies

May 09, 2012 | Computer Software, Technology | 0 comments

System has generated more than 200 fraud referrals, while helping prioritize and enhance the review of cases

CARY, N.C. (May 09, 2012) – Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) is using SAS to help fight organized fraud rings and individual perpetrators that prey on benefits meant for the community’s most vulnerable. Using fraud-fighting analytics and data mining tools from SAS, L.A. County uncovered more than 200 probable fraud cases and busted ongoing conspiracies to defraud the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Child Care benefits program.

The county provides financial and employment assistance to qualified families with minor children. The SAS Fraud Framework for Government helps ensure that only those truly in need of those benefits receive them.

“Fraudulent activity reduces funds available to those truly in need and hurts public confidence in a vital program,” said Michael J. Sylvester II, DPSS Assistant Director and Department Chief Information Officer. “Reducing fraud and catching those responsible builds public confidence; the Data Mining Solution (DMS) that L.A. County and SAS developed together is critical to that effort.”

Finding fraudsters, revealing conspiracies, supporting investigations

Alerts generated by the DMS have delivered more than 200 fraud referrals that could have otherwise gone unnoticed for an extended length of time by relying strictly on traditional fraud detection processes. Additionally, using SAS Social Network Analysis, DPSS Welfare Fraud Prevention and Investigations (WFP&I) uncovered two conspiracy rings comprising 16 cases much earlier, significantly reducing the duration of fraudulent activities. Social network analysis provides investigators instant access to a network of child care recipients and providers, saving hours of casework preparation.

“With a single mouse click, SAS provided leads to additional evidence that could have taken weeks or months to uncover, including linking my suspect with two in other cases,” said one investigator.

Another investigator, who was wrapping up a 10-person investigation, entered the main suspect’s name and discovered seven potential co-conspirators.

Predictive models detect anomalies

SAS generates high risk scores based on predictive models and peer group analysis that detect behavioral anomalies in child care service usage, which decreases false positive cases assigned to investigators. The scores help prioritize cases with a high suspicion level and identify high value targets. Social network analysis detects individuals likely to commit fraud, helps identify collusive fraud rings and identifies companion cases to ongoing investigations.

In addition to SAS Fraud Framework for Government and SAS Social Network Analysis, L.A. County applies predictive analytics and data mining, rules management and forecasting. SAS Business Intelligence generates a portal for monitoring, reporting and sharing information on fraudulent cases.

SAS hosts the county’s data at the SAS Analytics Lab for State and Local Government, which partners with state and local leaders to improve government services with advanced analytics technology. There, nearly 300 mostly doctoral-level SAS experts devise technological solutions to government issues such as fraud, tax collection, public safety, pension risk and education.

Successful pilot

Before the system went live, SAS and L.A. County conducted a data mining pilot that achieved 85 percent accuracy in detecting collusive fraud rings. Estimates of cost avoidance from new fraud referrals, earlier detection and increased efficiency totaled $6.8 million.

“The successful pilot resulted from a strong public-private partnership between SAS and L.A. County,” said Paula Henderson, Vice President of the SAS State and Local Government Practice. “SAS fraud experts and the analytics lab work closely with the county to ensure the live system remains effective in identifying fraudsters and protecting taxpayer money.”

SAS is used in all 50 state governments to transform their operations to deliver the right services, at the right time, with the appropriate resources. SAS offers a wide array of data integration, business intelligence and analytics solutions, and collaborates with government to create innovative offerings tailored to specific departmental and agency goals.

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IGLOO Software Embeds MicroStrategy Platform into their Social Business Suite

Mar 27, 2012 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

Next Generation Reporting Solution to Turn Employee Interactions into Business Insights

KITCHENER, Ontario (March 27, 2012) – IGLOO Software, the leading provider of social business software in the cloud, today announced that it has partnered with MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, to integrate reporting and analytics into IGLOO’s social business suite. The solution will allow IGLOO customers to track user participation, influence, activity and engagement in a social intranet or extranet.

As social technologies are introduced to business, workflow and employee interactions become more and more visible. The resulting activity and dialogue produces unprecedented volumes of data around social behaviors and actions. The addition of an analytics module provides organizations with the ability to identify areas where social interactions are most effective and model those more broadly across the entire organization to improve the effectiveness of team collaboration.

“Traditionally, engaging in a dialogue with employees and gathering deep insights from those interactions was achieved through an annual opinion survey,” said Dan Latendre, CEO of IGLOO Software. “IGLOO’s social business suite provides a new type of visibility into the collaborative conversations and activities that occur within an organization. For many companies, uncovering this insight is a game-changer. With our new social business suite, we will enable our customers to more effectively manage and optimize their talent and their ongoing interactions with customers and partners.”

MicroStrategy is one of the leading business intelligence companies focused on developing powerful technologies that capitalize on Big Data, Mobile, Social and Cloud trends. The IGLOO integration, managed by Gensquared, is built on MicroStrategy 9, a fully integrated BI platform that delivers reports and dashboards to business users via the web and mobile devices.

IGLOO will integrate MicroStrategy’s BI platform into the IGLOO administrative console in order to enrich the community management and reporting process. A dashboard of indicators will be presented graphically, including activity, contribution types and top content. Over time, new applications will be built to apply social analytics in a number of innovative ways that include:

Creating a more personalized user experience that delivers proactive recommendations of relevant people to connect with and content to explore
Adding detailed analytics that gauge employee sentiment and measure the effectiveness of project teams in order to understand its impact on business performance

“MicroStrategy is pleased to provide the reporting and analytics platform for IGLOO’s cloud-based social business suite,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer. “To meet accelerating customer demand for critical cloud solutions, Value Added Resellers like IGLOO Software are choosing MicroStrategy’s platform and easily integrating its powerful reporting and dashboard capabilities into their innovative cloud-based services.”

“Gensquared provides a highly customized integration between the MicroStrategy platform, IGLOO and existing data living outside the IGLOO social business suite, allowing customers to perform powerful analysis right within their intranet or extranet,” said Patrick Siconolfi, Principal at Gensquared Inc. “We are excited to be a part of a solution that brings together both MicroStrategy and IGLOO to deliver on this important customer need.”

The first phase of reporting will be made available to all IGLOO customers in the Spring ’12 release.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy’s BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit http://www.microstrategy.com/ and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

About Gensquared

Gensquared is a boutique consulting firm focused on enabling organizations capitalize one of their most important assets – their Data. Gensquared offers end-to-end professional services focused on delivering world-class business intelligence and data warehouse solutions that enable its customers to gain actionable insight for growing and effectively managing their businesses.

About IGLOO Software

IGLOO’s social business software is the fastest way to enable modern business collaboration. Delivered purely in the cloud, IGLOO empowers your people to become more productive, responsive and agile. That is why world-class companies, such as Cisco, NetApp, Deloitte and the ATP World Tour, choose IGLOO. Learn more at www.igloosoftware.com.

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Logistic Specialties Deploys LogiXML to Streamline Operations, Expand Customer Offerings, Increase Profits

Nov 15, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Use Case Shows True Power of Embedded Business Intelligence

MCLEAN, Va. (November 15, 2011) – LogiXML, the pioneer of web-based business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Logistic Specialties, Inc. (LSI), a leading provider of business development consulting and logistical support services, drastically improved its operational efficiencies, built multiple BI applications in record time, and increased its bottom line—all using Logi Info, http://pages.logixml.com/Info-Video.html.

LSI serves government agencies and commercial entities by specializing in managing and fulfilling procurement bids and commercial contracts. The success of their business is dependent on their ability to respond quickly to and win RFPs. Prior to working with LogiXML, most of LSI’s inefficiencies were rooted in a manual RFP response system, which included maintaining a huge Microsoft Excel database with years of historical records that was rife with inaccuracies.

Using Logi Info, LSI built a commodities tracking system to support their RFP process with only one database developer. Additionally, LSI used Logi Info to develop a set of business-support tools, including a helpdesk system, research request system, mass mailing tool, purchase request system, analysis data cubes, and time and activity tracking—all in 40 percent less time than with conventional development methods. What’s more, Logi Info’s agility enables LSI to support these systems with a staff half the size of their competitors’. By improving organizational processes, LSI has been able to win more than 50 percent of contracts that they bid on, and 60 percent of the dollars within their target market.

“We evaluated several vendors, including traditional BI products and supply chain management solutions and found various shortcomings, including pricing models that charged a percentage of our profits, a lack of vital functionality, and required implementation assistance from costly consultants,” said Mark de Amici, CTO, LSI. “We chose Logi Info because it is fast to implement, easy to modify and maintain, flexible enough to enable workflow between multiple teams and systems, and is highly reliable.”

When LSI started the BI procurement process, they initially wanted middleware to talk to multiple databases. Logi Info has evolved beyond that; Logi Info’s database neutrality enabled LSI to link to databases they were previously unable to, gathering information from multiple places and integrating them. As LSI and their data grows, the company now has a solution in place that will allow them to track and scale various operational components of their business, including project management, RFP management, risk management and financial analysis.

“More and more companies are recognizing that they need their BI software to be able to do more and change directions in order to stay competitive,” said Brett Jackson, CEO, LogiXML. “LSI has built impressive BI applications in a remarkably short amount of time using our solutions which have given them an edge in the marketplace. They are an example of what can be accomplished with agile BI software.”

Logi Info is the fastest way for developers and IT to create and deliver BI applications to any desktop or mobile device. Creating sophisticated applications with Logi Info takes only a fraction of the time of required by traditional BI solutions. Logi Info does this by providing a code-free development environment that dramatically reduces the effort and cost of creating and maintaining BI applications.

For more information on LogiXML and its products, go to www.logixml.com.

About LogiXML

Founded in 2000, LogiXML was the first to market with next generation, web-based business intelligence software. LogiXML provides web-based dashboards, user-friendly reports, and on-demand analysis that enables both technical and non-technical users to make better decisions for their organizations.

Contact:Matthew Pughmatt.pugh@logixml.com(443) 527-1552

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ParAccel Collaborates With MicroStrategy for High Performance Cloud and Social Media Analytics

Sep 27, 2011 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

CAMPBELL, Calif. & TYSONS CORNER, Va. (September 27, 2011) – ParAccel, Inc., provider of the world’s leading analytic platform, together with MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that they have extended their strategic partnership. The alliance builds upon a recent announcement that ParAccel’s analytic acceleration technology will be a core component of MicroStrategy’s social media analytics applications as well as a high performance option for MicroStrategy Cloud customers. To support these applications, ParAccel has invested dedicated resources, provided comprehensive access to its software, and committed to delivering specific product enhancements that will optimize the integration of ParAccel’s analytic engine with MicroStrategy’s products and offerings.

“ParAccel’s analytic engines are ideally suited to power MicroStrategy social, mobile, and business intelligence applications,” said Michael J. Saylor, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy. “Working with ParAccel, MicroStrategy is committed to delivering critical new services like MicroStrategy Cloud and Gateway for Facebook that empower companies to tap into enterprise and social networking data to improve insight and business decision making.”

ParAccel, the leading analytics platform, is designed specifically for accelerating complex analytics on extremely large and diverse sets of data. MicroStrategy has installed ParAccel in its High Performance and Scalability Lab to perform testing and to better support joint customers.

“ParAccel and MicroStrategy provide innovative solutions where big data and analytics are a significant source of enduring competitive advantage,” commented Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel. “We’re excited about this strategic partnership with MicroStrategy and the opportunity to accelerate analytics with enterprise customers. Our joint work on MicroStrategy Cloud and Gateway for Facebook is the first of what we anticipate will be many key initiatives that will deliver strategic solutions for the customers of both companies.”

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. The MicroStrategy platform delivers actionable information to business users via the web and mobile devices, including the iPad, iPhone, and BlackBerry. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its website. To learn more about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, and MicroStrategy Cloud are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

About ParAccel

In today’s analytics-driven environment, gaining fast and accurate business insights from massive volumes of data provides significant strategic advantage. As the leader in the high performance Analytics Platform market, ParAccel enables organizations to address their most dynamic and complex analytic challenges and rapidly gain ultra-fast, deep insights from very large data sets. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 and government agency customers use ParAccel to address their critical data issues outside the scope of conventional data warehouses and existing analytic tools. ParAccel is committed to delivering the best in class analytic platform purpose-built to support analytics at any scale and in any on premise or cloud based deployment model.

For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335, or visit us at http://www.paraccel.com.

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Roambi(TM) ES for SAS®: mobile BI delivered instantly to BlackBerry, Apple® devices

Aug 22, 2011 | Data Management, Technology | 0 comments

Additional assets re: Roambi for SAS

SINGAPORE (August 22, 2011) – SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, will be the exclusive worldwide provider of Roambi ES for SAS®. This new technology transforms SAS Business Intelligence reports and data into immersive, dashboard-style analytics, instantly delivered to compatible mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone® and iPad® and the BlackBerry Bold and Torch.

SAS’ strategic, global agreement with MeLLmo, creator of Roambi software, delivers mobile BI to enterprises worldwide with Roambi ES for SAS software and SAS Enterprise BI Server. Together, these products provide decision makers access to and visual interaction with critical SAS Business Intelligence data. Users can tap, turn and swipe to display, share and analyze the company’s latest information. The engaging interface lets busy professionals quickly and intuitively analyze timely, critical information from SAS Enterprise BI Server. The result: smart, collaborative decision-making wherever they are.

For example, regional managers can monitor retail sales monthly performance trends, drilling down by state and by product category to compare profit margins and detect sales trends to guide purchasing and inventory decisions. Reports can be cached to devices for offline viewing and updated reports fetched when online. With flexible collaboration options, managers can share insights for timely response to market changes.

“By extending the reach and usage of their existing BI infrastructure to mobile devices through the use of mobile visualization tools such as dashboards, charts and graphs, organizations can more agilely respond to market changes and customer needs. This accelerates time-to-information and improves customer satisfaction and retention,” wrote Aberdeen Group Senior Research Analysts Andrew Borg and David White in a December 2010 research paper, Mobile BI: Actionable Intelligence for the Agile Enterprise.

“Our customers rely on SAS for critical business insights. Roambi ES for SAS is a major productivity boost for mobile decision makers who need instant access to critical information for real-time decision making on the go,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Today’s announcement came at The Premier Business Leadership Series event in Singapore, a thought-leadership conference presented by SAS that brings together more than 600 senior-level attendees from the public and private sectors to share ideas on critical business issues.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright

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Tableau Makes Business Intelligence Faster and Mobile

Jul 31, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, eCommerce, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Tableau 6.1 adds optimized mobile support for iPads, faster data performance, new maps, and French and German versions

SEATTLE (July 31, 2011) – Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the general availability of Tableau 6.1. The new version delivers automatic touch and gesture optimized support for the Apple iPad, whether views are accessed via Tableau’s new iPad App or via Mobile Safari. In addition, Tableau enhanced its in-memory analytics engine with increased query and loading performance. People can also rapidly update existing extracts in Tableau’s data engine. Other improvements include localization and new maps.

“myPad or yours?” – create once and instantly get Tableau on the go

All Tableau views, from both Tableau Server and Tableau Public, are now optimized for touch and gesture experiences when accessed on the iPad. Creating interactive dashboards and reports is still fast, fun, and easy; now those same results are immediately available on the iPad. There is no need for up-front design changes or maintaining multiple versions of workbooks to serve multiple platforms. When a view is accessed from the iPad, Tableau automatically detects and optimizes the user experience. Controls such as filters, parameters, sliders, scrolling, and zoom & pan respond based on touch. The new iPad app, available in the Apple App Store at http://itunes.com/apps/tableaumobile, makes browsing content, accessing favorite reports, and collaborating and commenting quick and easy. An online video showing the new capabilities can be seen here http://www.tableausoftware.com/data-to-ipad-in-2-minutes.

“The ability of Tableau’s mobile BI solution to answer questions wherever they strike is incredibly empowering,” said John Abdo, who is responsible for all web analytics for Cafe Press, one of the world’s leading websites empowering people and organizations to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online. Abdo has been an active participant in the Tableau 6.1 beta. “It’s the same thing Tableau did when they gave non-technical users access to a treasure trove of data.”

According to recent research from Gartner “Forecast Alert: IT Spending, Worldwide, 1Q11 Update,” more widespread adoption of tablets among enterprises will help drive IT spending growth this year. The analysts predict that worldwide media tablet spending is projected to reach $29.4 billion in 2011, up from $9.6 billion in 2010. Global spending on media tablets is forecast to increase at an annual average rate of 52 per cent through 2015.

“BI output has been available on mobile devices for many years, but has had limited success due to the display form factor, computing and memory limitations of handheld devices and the cost of Internet bandwidth. However, the current generation of touch-driven tablets and smartphones is set to make BI content usable and compelling by offering a rich, location-aware and intuitive experience. BI content plus ubiquitous smart mobile devices should equal broader adoption,” commented James Richardson, Research Director at Gartner in his research note, “Findings From EMEA Business Intelligence Summit: Mobile BI Needs Metrics.”

An even faster in-memory data engine

The Tableau data engine, Tableau’s next generation in-memory analytics solution, has been enhanced. Not only does it load and query faster and support bigger data, but people can now incrementally update Tableau extracts quickly with one click or via an automated scheduler. Creating Tableau Extracts is significantly faster with v6.1. For example, loading 6.4 million rows from a file now takes less than 25% of the time it used to.

The data engine lets people speed up the performance of massive corporate databases or integrate large files on the fly. For example, daily visitors to an ecommerce site can result in millions of new records in website log files. With Tableau, those companies can keep their data sets current as they rapidly create and share powerful analytical views and reports.

“The need for speed drives today’s workforce. People have to be able to get interactive access to their dashboards and reports anywhere anytime, even if it’s in a conference room down the hall from their offices. Tableau 6.1 is filled with innovations that help people take charge of massive data and use it regardless of where they are,” said Dan Jewett, Tableau Software’s vice president, product management.

6.1 new features

As well as mobile support and the enhanced data engine, the release of Tableau 6.1 adds a host of other new functionality including French and German versions, more mapping options, and new features to create brilliant visualizations and dashboards. Detailed information is available at http://www.tableausoftware.com/new-features/6.1.

Localization and Maps – French and German versions of Tableau Desktop, and enhanced geocoding mean that asking “where?” yields richer answers
Fresh, fast data – Faster extract creation, incremental updates, data appends, extract history, database impersonation and Teradata improvements make it easier to be up-to-the-minute and secure with all your data
More tools for authors – more legend options, links on dashboard images and the ability to view data anywhere allow for more control

“The launch of French and German versions highlights the start of our localization drive, translating not just the software text, but a range of other map and locale data as well,” Jewett continued. “Combined with several other innovative new features, this release showcases the vision we have for the Tableau suite worldwide.”

Prior to launch Tableau 6.1 was demoed at Tableau Software’s First Annual European Customer Conference and tested by a group of over 1,000 customers in beta access program.

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and data visualization software. Ranked by Gartner in 2011 as the world’s fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau makes its award-winning business intelligence applications available for download at http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial. They enable anyone to easily create and share interactive data visualizations, dashboards and analytics, and can scale to organizations of any size or reach. For more information, please visit http://www.tableausoftware.com.

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SAS customers share enrollment management, institutional research successes at AIR forum

May 23, 2011 | Computer Hardware, Technology | 0 comments

Business intelligence supports degree tracking, student success, early warning systems

CARY, N.C. (May 23, 2011) – Student enrollment and retention are the lifeblood of higher education institutions. Ensuring those students earn degrees in an appropriate timeframe keeps it flowing. Two customers discuss how they use SAS® software for institutional research to tackle these critical challenges at this week’s Association for Institutional Research (AIR) annual forum in Toronto.

In separate presentations, university representatives will discuss how implementing a reporting data warehouse has expanded reporting capabilities, through UCF’s use of the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education. Supported by SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Data Management servers, a UCF information delivery portal provides secure, campus wide access to multi-dimensional, detailed enrollment reports on current and historical enrollment trends.

Demonstrating institutional and student success requires degree data. How many were awarded, the breakdown by college or department, the diversity of degree recipients, number of minors or certificates awarded, etc. In the second presentation, members of UCF’s Institutional Knowledge Management office will show how they converted legacy, static degree data into a graphic-based, trend-focused degree application that answers these critical questions and more.

Institutional research and technology experts from Western Kentucky University will present their Kentucky AIR Best Paper award winner on the university’s early-warning system for enrollment, persistence and student success. In a separate presentation, they will share best practices and lessons learned before, throughout and after last year’s successful launch of a business intelligence portal.

“These two universities are mastering the use of data to help meet their most important missions: enroll quality students and ensure their success,” said Armistead Sapp, head of the SAS Education Practice. “We’ve learned so much working with UCF and WKU over the years. Session attendees will not be disappointed.”

In addition, a SAS analytics expert will discuss supporting institutional research through analytics, including how to seamlessly integrate data across multiple platforms, provide insightful reporting and utilize the power of analytics. Attendees will learn how data can be surfaced in dashboards with drillable reports, and how analytics can predict trends, enabling proactive decision making.

With more than 3,000 college, university and business school customers in 126 countries and education specialists on every continent, SAS serves higher education by delivering software solutions, strategic services and academic programs that spark innovation and expand educational opportunities.

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