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Plus Relocation Services Provides Information Builders’ Unique Business Intelligence Services to Global Customer Base

Sep 21, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Custom Dashboard Environment Is the First of Its Kind for Relocation Management Industry

NEW YORK, NY (September 21, 2009) –

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Plus Relocation Services has deployed Information Builders WebFOCUS BI platform as the foundation for a customer-facing dashboard environment called InformAgility. As a global leader in the full-service relocation management and consulting industry, Plus Relocation created the BI environment to help clients create better relocation packages, keep track of expenses, and stay on budget throughout the year. Plus Relocation also used WebFOCUS to create an operational reporting system that helps employees communicate more effectively with customers about the costs and potential issues associated with relocation activities. Nearly 180 customers rely on InformAgility with more than 80 internal users depending on WebFOCUS for reporting and analysis functions.

According to Mick Lee, chairman and CEO at Plus Relocation Services, they selected Information Builders based on its proven success in Web-based reporting and performance management, coupled with its mature data visualization software. “Our new dashboards give us reporting capabilities that our competitors simply don’t have,” said Mr. Lee. “Through WebFOCUS, our clients are able to generate a variety of online, standard, and ad hoc reports in the areas of relocation activity, expenses, home sales, and invoice history.”

InformAgility makes this information easily accessible in a variety of formats such as graphs, PDF, HTML, Excel, and Active Reports. It includes an interactive cost calculator, online authorization forms, real-time status updates, customized financial reports, up-to-the-minute transferee survey results, and a document library for policies and reports. For example, if an employee moves from San Francisco to Singapore, the employer can estimate how much that relocation will cost and then use InformAgility to track expenses against that estimate. In addition, employers who purchase and resell their employees’ former homes can track appraisals, listing amounts and offers for each property. They can also drop in different pricing structures to perform “what-if” scenarios – a valuable capability in today’s volatile housing market.

Information Builders Professional Services helped Plus Relocation build a variety of operational reporting capabilities for internal use. Once these basic reports were in place, Plus Relocation used WebFOCUS Flex Enable to generate reports, graphs, and other visual representations of the data, including graphical drill-down capabilities that let users filter and manipulate information as they see fit. Plus Relocation is also using WebFOCUS Flex Enable to integrate graphics into its proposals, including interactive reports, drop-down menus, and dashboards. In the near future, the company plans to deploy WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework to complement an existing balanced scorecard initiative.

“At a time when many relocation services companies are struggling to stay afloat, Plus Relocation Services has proven how the right mix of reporting and performance management capabilities can offer the competitive edge necessary to acquire and retain new clients,” said Gerald D. Cohen, president and CEO at Information Builders. “Technology-savvy organizations enjoy having the flexibility to generate their own reports, collaborate online, and continually monitor activities and costs. Plus Relocation is at the forefront of an emerging trend to offer custom BI capabilities to customers.”
About Plus Relocation Services, Inc.

Founded in 1968, Plus Relocation Services, Inc. is recognized as a global leader in the design and implementation of employee relocation and assignment management programs. The company has earned rave reviews for “delivering delight” through their expertise, personalized services, innovative programs, and cutting-edge technology. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, PLUS has offices in the United States, Client Program Managers in the EMEA and APAC Regions, and the best on-the-ground service partners throughout the world. For additional information about PLUS and our services, please visit our Web site at www.plusrelocation.com.
About Information Builders

Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.

Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners.

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MicroStrategy Selected by LHS Aktiengesellschaft, Part of the Ericsson Group, to Support its Management Information System

Sep 16, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Global Reporting with Key Performance Indicators Provides Valuable Insights into Business Performance

McLean, Va., (September 16, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that LHS Aktiengesellschaft selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform to support its management information system. LHS, part of the Ericsson Group with 17 subsidiaries in 11 countries, is a leading independent software vendor (ISV) of billing and customer care systems in the telecom industry.

LHS plans to replace its internal Excel-based reports and ad hoc analyses with an integrated and scalable MicroStrategy BI solution. LHS management and the finance department will use MicroStrategy-based dashboards and reports to gain easier and more reliable access to financial and performance data. In addition to providing an overview of business performance, the dashboards and reports will track individual project figures. These figures will be consolidated and managed in a set of worldwide Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which will provide a consistent set of data across the business using MicroStrategy’s central metadata architecture. MicroStrategy’s intuitive Web-based interface will provide flexibility for LHS users on four continents worldwide to create their own reports and analyses, and help them identify issues in their local business areas.

“After performing an extensive vendor analysis, we are confident that we have selected a BI platform that will provide us with a strong basis for our reporting,” stated Axel Barta, CFO of LHS Aktiengesellschaft. “Reducing the large number of sources for our KPI system will allow us to make quicker and more strategic decisions. MicroStrategy offers clear value with its straightforward, self-service interface. Reports can be created by the users, which reduces the overall costs of the BI system.”

“We are pleased that LHS Aktiengesellschaft selected MicroStrategy’s integrated BI platform to support its global reporting requirements,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “MicroStrategy’s highly visual dashboards and reports provide vital information that can help companies manage performance in today’s highly competitive business environment.”

About LHS
LHS Aktiengesellschaft, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ:ERIC), is a leading independent software vendor (ISV) of billing and customer care systems in the telecom industry. The company’s award-winning solutions are used by the world’s leading network and virtual operators, to generate and manage consistent revenue streams. LHS Business Support Systems offer full convergence on various levels, supporting the complete range of business models both across the mix of fixed and mobile services, as well as prepaid and postpaid services. LHS builds innovative systems that enable our customers to introduce new services fast, helping drive revenues up, while keeping operational costs to a minimum. LHS’ headquarters are located in Frankfurt, Germany, with main offices in Brazil, France, Malaysia, and the UAE. LHS Aktiengesellschaft as the Group’s Holding company is a public company listed on the Frankfurter Stock Exchange (LHS400).For more information, please visit www.lhsgroup.com

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform 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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MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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Essex County Correctional Facility Goes Live with Kronos

Sep 15, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Workforce management solutions deployed to help save public safety jobs and meet budget goals

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (September 15, 2009) –

A long-standing user of the time and attendance solution from Kronos® Incorporated, the Essex County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts recently went live with Kronos employee scheduling and HR and payroll solutions, and achieved an immediate, 90-percent reduction in overtime-related costs. The organization projects $1 million savings over 12 months with Kronos by accurately tracking, scheduling, and managing its workforce.
News Facts

* Faced with a $1.2 million state budget reduction in the middle of the fiscal year, the Essex County Correctional Facility needed to automate critical workforce business processes to control costs and subsequently save public safety jobs.
* Kronos configured the solutions, trained employees, provided support, and helped the correctional facility achieve the 90-percent reduction in overtime-related cost savings within one month of implementation of the new solutions. The facility paid $13,000 in overtime fees in March 2009 compared to $95,000 in February 2008. The increased visibility and control over data has delivered increased savings each month. In June 2009, the overtime expense was only $7,000 compared to $102,000 in June 2008.
* The Kronos solution generates a daily absenteeism and overtime report, which enables the sheriff to track overtime by the hour and make adjustments to avoid the added expense of overtime.
* Using the Kronos 4500 Touch ID(TM) biometric terminal, the facility has also eliminated buddy punching (the costly act of employees punching in for one another).
* The correctional facility implemented a new five-and-two workweek (five work days in a row with two days off) for the officers, replacing its older four-and-two workweek. The new workweek schedule supported by Kronos is adding thousands of additional shifts per year to eliminate overtime, resulting in cost savings of $500,000 from this schedule change alone for the remainder of the fiscal year.
* Kronos solutions are supporting changes implemented by the management team to meet the revised budget goals including unpaid days for senior staff, reduced workweeks for some employees, and a workweek schedule change for correctional officers.

Supporting Quotes

* Frank Cousins, Jr., Essex County Sheriff
“With 80 percent of our budget consisting of salaries and benefits, we had to take serious measures to save public safety jobs when faced with a significant budget reduction in February 2009. By utilizing Kronos to effectively and efficiently implement our new five-and-two schedule, our department has seen a 90-percent savings in overtime costs compared to last year. Which government entity wouldn’t want such results?”
* Christine Carmichael, director of government industry marketing, Kronos
“We are proud to be part of the Essex County Correctional Facility’s initiative to help save public safety jobs. The senior management’s vision and innovative approach to put the needs of its public and employees first are truly remarkable. Our configurable solutions are easy to implement, own, and maintain, and have enabled quick adjustments to adapt to the budget cut.”

Supporting Resources

* About The Essex County Correctional Facility

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

© 2009 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos is a registered trademark and Kronos 4500 Touch ID is a trademark of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Kronos

Sep 14, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

K-12 schools, colleges, and universities are turning to KronosÂ® Incorporated to fill time and attendance gaps left by their ERP systems. Kronos automates, centralizes, and integrates critical workforce business processes to help control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce p

CHELMSFORD, Mass., (September 14, 2009) –

K-12 schools, colleges, and universities are turning to Kronos® Incorporated to fill time and attendance gaps left by their ERP systems. Kronos automates, centralizes, and integrates critical workforce business processes to help control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity for educational institutions.
News Facts

* Time and attendance products offered by ERP vendors are unable to meet the budgetary requirements of educational institutions. These solutions take longer and are more expensive to implement and maintain as they often rely on custom code and scripting languages. Also, they don’t offer the tools to gain real-time control over payroll data and overall labor costs including overtime, absenteeism, and scheduling problems.
* Rudimentary time and attendance solutions from ERPs can leak hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars each year as they don’t detect labor-related problems for days.
* Considering that labor costs represent one of the largest expenses for schools and higher education institutions, often exceeding 70 percent of operational budget, time and attendance data collection is a great place to look for quick payback.
* Educational institutions including Broward County Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Cornell University, and Yale University use Kronos time and attendance solutions to extend the value of their ERP investment.

Supporting Quotes

* Jerome Goudelock, acting chief HR operations officer, Chicago Public Schools
“Managing staff overtime and maximizing operational efficiencies can make the difference between meeting or exceeding budget. But you can’t control what you don’t see. Kronos offers high-quality, real-time data about the workforce leading to cost savings. The best-of-breed Kronos solution easily integrates with our existing ERP system and helps us leverage that investment to control labor costs.”
* Kathy Tessendorf, director of human resource information, Northwestern University
“The Kronos solution enhances communication among departments and divisions through easy integration capabilities and provides real-time reporting from a centralized database. As grant funding has become an increasingly crucial part of education budgets, by using Kronos, we are able to total all hours employees work from all of their jobs for overtime calculations as well as giving us the ability to keep accurate reporting for separate grant projects.”
* Kimberly Curtis, PMP, senior project manager, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Payroll is typically a university’s largest expense, and with a dispersed and complex workforce, they need a system that automates processes and handles multiple and complex pay rules. With Kronos, pay rules are easily configured, tested, and deployed across the entire campus. This helps control labor costs, improve productivity, and achieve greater ROI.”
* Christine Carmichael, director of education industry marketing, Kronos
“At Kronos, we strive to offer detailed workforce intelligence to help our customers take positive action. As a result, they can extend the value of other technology investments such as ERPs to minimize absenteeism rates and control labor costs, ultimately resulting in better service to students, employees, and the community.”

Supporting Resources

* Kronos offers an integration tool, which makes it even easier for organizations to integrate Kronos applications with existing ERP, payroll, and human resources systems (see “Kronos Announces Availability of Workforce Central 6.1”).

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Sep 10, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

MicroStrategy Teams with Netezza to Provide Enterprise-wide Reporting and Analytics

McLean, Va., (September 10, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that 99¢ Only Stores® has selected MicroStrategy for enterprise-wide reporting and analytics. Operating more than 270 retail stores, 99¢ Only Stores emphasizes quality name-brand consumables, priced at an excellent value.

A new MicroStrategy customer, 99¢ Only Stores chose MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform as its business intelligence standard. 99¢ Only Stores plans to use MicroStrategy-based reports and information dashboards for greater insights into product sales, store operations, inventory management, and merchandising. MicroStrategy’s at-a-glance dashboards will provide actionable information, enabling 99¢ Only Stores’ personnel to monitor key business metrics, quickly identify trends, and enhance decision-making.

“MicroStrategy’s proven experience in retail business intelligence and seamless integration with Netezza were important to us as we selected our new BI partner,” said Terry Rountree, Director of Application Development at 99¢ Only Stores. “With MicroStrategy’s user-friendly dashboards, our employees will be able to view large volumes of data in a highly interactive way to make timely, data-driven decisions.”

“We are delighted that 99¢ Only Stores selected MicroStrategy to support their BI applications,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s BI platform has the scalability and flexibility to analyze large volumes of transactional data and provide retailers with valuable insights on essential areas such as sales trends, inventory management, store operations, and customer loyalty.”

About 99¢ Only Stores®
Founded over 25 years ago, 99¢ Only Stores® operates 271 extreme value retail stores with 202 in California, 32 in Texas, 25 in Arizona and 12 in Nevada. 99¢ Only Stores® emphasizes quality name-brand consumables, priced at an excellent value, in convenient, attractively merchandised stores. Over 50% of the company’s product mix consists of food and beverage including produce, dairy, deli and frozen foods, along with fresh baked goods and gourmet foods. The Company’s New York Stock Exchange symbol is NDN.

99¢ Only Stores® news releases and information available on the Company’s website at http://www.99only.com.

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MicroStrategy, Incorporated
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Information Builders Offers New Insurance Performance Foundation

Sep 09, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Provides More Dynamic Single View Into Property and Casualty Business

NEW YORK, NY (September 09, 2009) –

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced an upgrade of its Insurance Performance Foundation (IPF), previously known as Insurance Reporting Foundation (IRF). IPF provides performance management, collaboration, and role and dashboard management capabilities requested by many property and casualty CEOs. With new structured ad hoc reporting, the newly modularized IPF provides insurance companies such as the Mid-Continent Group with access to the full breadth of insurance business information, from summary to the lowest level of detail, required to give a single, accurate view of the business.

“Our CEO took a hands-on approach with IPF because it was key to helping him realize his vision to have a dashboard allowing him to drill down into finer details of results, confidently mine data looking at sub-classes of business and pockets of geographic locations to enable us to improve the results of our book,” said Gregg Jones, chief financial officer at Mid-Continent Group. “The IPF will enable us to provide a consistent, confident, single view to our business results that was previously missing.”

Insurance executives now receive pre-packaged dashboards showing performance against goals and can readily personalize content to identify concerns with a few clicks. Online collaboration on metrics and performance provides users with the ability to enhance company-wide information, including sharing of judgments, actions, and accountability for more informed decision-making across the business. Reports can be brought to the user based on a schedule or user thresholds, allowing executives to be proactive in looking at only the most relevant business information.

With a more engaging user interface, IPF’s new property and casualty reporting families are designed to empower even the most non-technical user to answer questions and perform real-time segmentation across underwriting, actuary, and claims areas with:

* Visual effects where drop-down lists in information requests better reflect the insurers’ business relationships and hierarchies
* Preferred defaults, so users see the best context for that information
* Enhanced search capabilities to provide easier filtering of large drop-down lists like agent, provider, or county
* Ability to recall previous requests and evolve in real time
* Off-line analytics capabilities, enabling brokers, and traveling staff to perform property and casualty analytics without connecting to the server

Heightened competition brought on by the challenging economy is driving insurers to save money now, while improving strategic use of information to reduce loss ratios over time. To accommodate this market trend, IPF is offered as four components that can be acquired one at a time or all together. As a modular solution IPF can complement existing insurance data warehouse efforts or deliver a complete data warehouse and BI solution. This flexibility differs from traditional insurance frameworks, because it means IPF can be implemented in months, not years. The four components of IPF include:

* Executive performance-oriented key performance indicators
* Management reporting frameworks
* Insurance data model (detail to summary full dimensional model)
* Prebuilt insurance data movement services (ETL) to load data model

“It’s our goal to help users be more self-sufficient to not only take the burden off IT and keep costs low, but also give each user the ability to be a more active and valuable contributor to the organization,” said Information Builders founder and CEO Gerald Cohen. “Our deep property and casualty expertise continues to provide insurers with rapid options and powerful segmentation to lower expense ratios.”

IPF now supports workers compensation and surety insurers in addition to personal, commercial, and excess and surplus lines. The solution is available immediately with flexible pricing options, which range from as low as $250K for just the data model to $500K for the full package solution.
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Kronos Retail Labor Index(TM) Indicates Signs of Recovery in U.S. Retail Hiring

Sep 08, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

New Index Shows Retail Hiring Up 9 Percent from Three-Year Low in January 2009

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (September 08, 2009) –

Kronos® Incorporated today unveiled the first installment of the Kronos Retail Labor Index(TM), a family of metrics and indices that analyze the relationship between the demand and supply sides of the labor market within the U.S. retail sector. The Kronos Retail Labor Index provides a distinct and early indicator of the overall state of the retail sector. The report will be available on a monthly basis. The September report, a schedule of upcoming Index release dates, the methodology, and downloadable graphics are available on the Kronos Retail Labor Index website.
News Facts

* There are four related measures of interest in the report:

* The Kronos Retail Labor Index: This metric is defined as the percentage of job applications that result in a hiring, normalized within a scale of 0 to 100. For example, a rate of 2.75 percent means that per 100 job applications received, 2.75 of them resulted in a hire.

o The Kronos Retail Labor Index decreased fairly steadily from 7.1 percent in October 2006 to a three-year low of 2.75 percent in January 2009.
o Between January and July 2009, the Kronos Retail Labor Index increased slightly to 2.99 percent, a relative improvement of 4 percent from 2.88 percent in June.
o The figure of 2.99 percent represents a 9-percent increase in the job application to hiring ratio relative to the lowest recorded level of 2.75 percent in January 2009. While showing a small but steady improvement over the last six months, the July number is significantly below the three-year high of 7.1 percent recorded in October 2006.

* Retail Applications Level: During the first seven months of 2009, the 68 retailers who make up the Kronos sample received 8.9 million job applications, a 12 percent increase over the same period in 2008 and a 33 percent increase over the same period in 2007.
* Retail Hiring Level: Of the 15 million applications received by these retailers during the last 12 months (August 2008 through July 2009), 529,000 resulted in hires. This represents a 28 percent reduction in hirings compared to the prior 12 months (August 2007 through July 2008).
* Retail Employee Retention Rate: Consistently declining rates of retention on a year-over-year basis between late-2006 and mid-2007 have been followed by a steady and much larger increase in retention in 2008 and 2009.

Supporting Quotes

* Dr. Robert Yerex, Ph.D., chief economist, Kronos
“It was encouraging to see the Kronos Retail Labor Index increase to 2.99 percent in July – up 4 percent from June. We believe this stabilization and tentative recovery in the Index signals the beginning of stabilization in the overall U.S. economy and will be reflected in other measures of the economy in the coming months.”
* Aron Ain, chief executive officer, Kronos
“In the past, bits and pieces of information about the hiring climate were available from various sources, but never in a comprehensive way. The Kronos Retail Labor Index is derived from one unified data set and is based on actual hiring transactions, as opposed to surveys about transactions. Our hiring solution processed more than 23 million applications in 2008. This volume of data combined with our expertise in analytics and economics enables Kronos to analyze hiring-related trends in the retail sector in a way that no one else can.”
* Dr. John Gallup, assistant professor of economics, Portland State University
“Economists, among many other groups of people, are always looking for new leading economic indicators. Analysis of the past several years has shown that the Kronos Retail Labor Index has consistently foreshadowed changes that revealed themselves in other indicators weeks or months later. Given this history, I believe the Kronos Retail Labor Index could be an important leading economic indicator for the retail sector moving forward.”
* Lisa Rowan, program director, HR, learning and talent strategies, IDC
“The time is right for a seasoned entity in retail hiring to launch an index like the Kronos Retail Labor Index, given the current state of the economy and the increasing interest in trying to find better predictors of what will happen. This is a very interesting way to use data in its aggregate form to provide the public-at-large with a useful and meaningful new measure of the economy.”

Supporting Resources

* Organizations that use Kronos hiring solutions employ approximately 15 percent of the U.S. consumer retail labor market, providing Kronos with a unique set of data on employee job applications, hirings, and length of service.
* The Kronos Retail Labor Index will be released on a monthly basis. Go to www.kronos.com/retail-labor-index to access: the full report; a schedule of upcoming Index release dates; the Index methodology; and downloadable graphics.
* To listen to an Audio News Release about the Kronos Retail Labor Index go to: http://www.kronos.com/Audio/KRONOS-W2.mp3
* Note to reporters: cite Index findings as “Kronos Retail Labor Index”.

About the Kronos Retail Labor Index

The Kronos Retail Labor Index is a family of metrics and indices that analyze the relationship between the demand and the supply sides of the labor market within the U.S. retail sector. It is derived from a single, unified data set, allowing for statistically appropriate comparisons and time series-based trending analysis. Firms that use Kronos hiring solutions employ approximately 15 percent of the U.S. consumer retail labor market, providing Kronos with a unique set of data on employee job applications, hirings, and length of service. The Kronos Retail Labor Index provides a distinct and early indicator of the health of the retail sector.
About Kronos Incorporated

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iDashboards Encourages ‘Health Check’ for Healthcare Organizations

Sep 06, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Healthcare organizations can use this time of reform and change to improve operations and boost efficiency

Troy, MI (September 06, 2009) –

The debate surrounding the current state of US healthcare and its impending reform should not detract healthcare organizations from their ultimate goal of providing superior care to their patients. According to iDashboards, the leader in Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, healthcare organizations and providers can leverage this “time of change” to ensure that their Information Technology (IT) systems are not only capable of measuring and supporting their current needs – but also well equipped to provide long term support.

iDashboards asserts that all organizations may benefit from a routine check-up aimed at measuring the overall health of their organization to determine what current systems and processes are working well, and those that are feeling “under the weather.” Shadan Malik, CEO of iDashboards, works with some of the top healthcare organizations in the US and has the following list of five tips for providers looking to get their business in good health:

1) Set clear objectives and measure against them: With the influx of new regulatory and compliance issues affecting healthcare, it is important to have a clear understanding of your company’s objectives and establish a set of key performance indicators (KPIs).

2) You can’t fix what you can’t see: It is critical that every healthcare organization have the insight and ability to track the KPIs that matter most. Implementing BI tools that are specifically designed to track and measure progress against preset metrics will ensure complete visibility into all data, enabling organizations to gain access to real-time analysis of the metrics that affect their business.

3) Keep your employees engaged: Organizations that clearly identify and articulate their strategic goals to employees, and track if and when these goals are being met are positioned well to compete and succeed in today’s highly volatile marketplace. Additionally, when employees know that their performance is tracked and measured they are more inclined to be productive.

4) Make it intuitive visually appealing: No one wants to comb through a load of spreadsheets – if your data is impossible to decipher, what good is it to your company? While these tools are generally set up by IT workers, it is often the line of business users, who are less technically adept, who will be reading reports and making decisions based on the results. Make sure data presentation is intuitive and visually interactive.

5) Real-time reporting is critical: It doesn’t do your company any good if you are reporting on data that was impacting your organization last year, last month, or even last week. Organizations need access to real-time information to ensure prompt corrective action and timely feedback.

“iDashboards works with healthcare organizations across the country to provide the business intelligence dashboard solutions they need to gain access to more detailed, actionable data that facilitates quick, easy and well-informed decision-making,” said Shadan Malik, CEO, iDashboards. “Healthcare organizations are responsible for their patients’ health, but in order to be effective, their organization needs to be running as efficiently as possible. The tips above highlight just a few steps healthcare organizations can take to ensure they are running as efficiently as possible.”

Organizations can perform a quick “healthcare IT check-up” and see how they stack up against their peers by filling out a brief survey at: iDashboards Health Meter.

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About iDashboards
Through its award-winning engineering and patented software, iDashboards helps companies leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized business intelligence dashboards to analyze, track, and drill-down through a wealth of information. iDashboards’ global customer base consists of organizations ranging from large, fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized businesses, all of which are making quicker, well-informed business decisions with the help of iDashboards. The company is privately held and headquartered in Troy, Michigan. To find out more about iDashboards’ solutions, please call (248) 952-0840 or visit www.idashboards.com.

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MicroStrategy Chosen as Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform for Soci

Sep 03, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

One of the Largest BI Deployments in France with More Than 20,000 BI Users

McLean, Va., (September 03, 2009) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that the French retail bank, Société Générale, has chosen MicroStrategy 9 as its BI platform to replace its existing reporting tools.

In 2008, Société Générale initiated a review of its decision support systems, including sales, financial, marketing, and risk analysis, and decided to replace its existing reporting tools with a new BI platform. The BI platform will be used to provide consistent business data and a common view for all users, provide timely and actionable insights to respond to business requirements, and reduce operational costs.

Société Générale conducted a “Proof-of-Concept” (POC) evaluation, which allowed it to assess numerous BI solutions over a seven-month period. “The different activities that were involved in our POC approach included functional workshops and report and dashboard prototypes,” explained Jean-Louis Tribut, manager of the decision support division of Société Générale’s IS department. “MicroStrategy provided a solution that addressed our functional, technical, and global cost requirements,” he added.

The first BI applications were delivered to users in June 2009, and Société Générale expects that 20,000 employees will benefit from the MicroStrategy platform, making this one of the largest BI projects in France. Société Générale uses the BI platform to access diverse data sources for enterprise reporting, detailed analytics, dashboards, and ad hoc queries.

“We are delighted to welcome Société Générale as a new MicroStrategy customer,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. “The thorough POC evaluation process allowed us to demonstrate MicroStrategy’s fast time-to-value and low total cost of ownership, which is essential in today’s challenging economic climate.”

About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com. MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 9, and MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform 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.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 9 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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Information Builders Named Business Intelligence Leader in 2009 CRM Market Leader Awards

Sep 03, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Independent BI Leader Recognized for Innovative Products and Excellence in Customer Satisfaction

NEW YORK, NY (September 03, 2009) –

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that CRM magazine, the industry’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) publication, named the company a Market Leader in the Business Intelligence category for the 2009 CRM Market Leader Awards. Companies were recently recognized at the publication’s CRM Evolution 2009 conference.

With its eighth annual CRM Market Awards, CRM magazine honors the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies that focus on customer relationships and the customer experience through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies. In each of 10 categories, the magazine named one Market Winner, denoting the highest score compared to its peers. Each category also produced four Market Leader awards and “One to Watch.”

“To stay competitive in a challenging economy, companies must come up with innovative ways to improve their customer relationship efforts. This is exactly what the recipients of the 2009 CRM Market Awards have done,” said David Myron, CRM magazine’s editorial director. “We congratulate Information Builders as one of this year’s award recipients for their achievements over the last year. May their CRM efforts continue to succeed.”

“We are proud that for the past several years, Information Builders has been recognized by CRM magazineas a market leader in business intelligence,” said Gerald Cohen, Information Builders’ founder and CEO. “Customer satisfaction and building strong customer relationships are core components of our business. This award marks a significant achievement in our CRM efforts. Looking forward, we will continue our commitment to delivering innovative, highly scalable and accessible business intelligence solutions to our customers throughout the world.”
About CRM magazine

CRM magazine is the leading publication of the customer relationship management industry, covering sales, marketing, customer service, and strategy. The magazine also administers and hosts the annual CRM Evolution conference. Each of these properties is designed to serve customer-centric business initiatives, and leaders who recognize CRM as a key strategy for creating enhanced customer value in any industry. For more information about the magazine, its editorial calendar, or CRM in general, please visit us on the Web at http://www.destinationCRM.com, or on Twitter at @CRM (http://twitter.com/CRM) and @destinationCRM (http://twitter.com/destinationCRM). The destinationCRM Web site (which is updated daily) and the monthly magazine are properties of CRM Media, a division of Information Today, Inc.
About Information Builders

Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.

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