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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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Contact:  Warren Getler  MicroStrategy Incorporated  703-744-6258 wgetler@microstrategy.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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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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Tableau Opens Data Analysis Contest; Winner to Earn $5K in Prizes and Will Be Announced on Stage at The Economist’s Ideas Economy Conference

May 19, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Competition offers people opportunity to showcase their skills in creating interactive graphs about business, finance or real estate; winner receives free trip to Las Vegas and will be featured at Economist event June 8

SEATTLE (May 19, 2011) – Today marks the opening of a new data analysis competition using Tableau Public, a free tool for creating and publishing interactive graphs on the web. The competition encourages people to create interactive data visualizations about business, finance or real estate trends and publish them in their blogs or websites. $5,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winner, along with the chance to win more. Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence, is sponsoring the contest along with support from The Economist and its Ideas Economy conference “Making Sense of the Deluge”, an event devoted to the new world of data. To enter, people should go to http://www.tableausoftware.com/biz-viz-contest.

“Telling interactive stories with data is easier and faster with Tableau,” said Christian Chabot, CEO Tableau Software. “People can rapidly build data rich interactive applications for their websites, blogs and portals without programming or special skills. By presenting this contest with The Economist, we’re giving experienced analysts and novices alike an opportunity to use Tableau to demonstrate their skills at bringing data to life.”

Current alternatives for data story-telling are inadequate. Often, data is pasted into tables, posted as files that are difficult to use or shown in static charts. Or, specially skilled programmers spend weeks building single-purpose widgets. Tableau is helping to solve this. With its interactive visualizations and dashboards, Tableau Public helps people build interactive data applications that are useful, beautiful and shareable on the web. No special plug-ins are required, all that’s needed to see and use the data is a web browser.

Contest Details

The contest is open to U.S. residents who have downloaded Tableau Public. Entrants compete by creating an interactive visualization using any business, finance or real estate data, and then submitting an application to enter the contest. The contest closes June 3rd. The winner will be announced on stage at The Economist’s Ideas Economy Conference June 8 in Santa Clara, CA.

In addition, the winner will receive a copy of Tableau Desktop, expanded Tableau Public account limits, and a conference registration to the 2011 Tableau Customer Conference in Las Vegas, with travel and hotel expenses covered for two people. The winner will also win the chance to compete with the winners of two other visualization contests at the conference in a final “Iron Viz” championship, whose winner will take away $2,000 and a new iPad2.

For further information on the competition please go to http://www.tableausoftware.com/biz-viz-contest. To get Twitter updates on the contest, follow @tableau.

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Leading Industry Analyst Firm Ranks Tableau Software as World’s Fastest Growing Business Intelligence Vendor With 114% Growth Rate

May 01, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Tableau Software Positioned as “Challenger” in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence

SEATTLE (May 01, 2011) – Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced it is the world’s fastest growing Business Intelligence, Performance, and Analytics Software vendor based on year over year revenue growth in 2010, according to new research from Gartner Dataquest (Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2010). While the business intelligence market overall grew by 13.4%, Tableau posted growth of 113.5%. Far outpacing traditional business intelligence vendors, Tableau grew more than four times as fast as the average vendor.

These findings come on the heels of Gartner’s seminal 2011 Magic Quadrant report for Business Intelligence Platforms*, which positioned Tableau as a “challenger” based on survey feedback from Tableau customers. Gartner also released detailed customer survey findings about Tableau and 27 other BI vendors, which can be used for a deeper look into what has driven Tableau’s remarkable growth.  Tableau has made the full Magic Quadrant report and the supporting Gartner detailed reports available at no charge at http://www.tableausoftware.com/gartner. A video index of the report can be found at http://www.tableausoftware.com/gartner-video-guide.  Tableau will be exhibiting at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles this week.

“We believe being included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is testament to the value Tableau provides. Innovative, rapid-fire business intelligence software that’s easy for both IT and end-users helps organizations be smarter, more agile and efficient,” said Christian Chabot, Tableau’s CEO and co-founder. “Our latest product release supports easy analyses of massive data sets and is fully scalable to large enterprises. It’s no surprise we’re topping our competitors’ growth by such a wide margin.”

“The efficiency of my group has gone through the roof,” said Shawn Spott, vice president and manager for RBC Wealth Management, a Tableau customer. “Because Tableau provides us with the self-service model, we’re able to continue to keep projects moving through the pipeline. The maintenance footprint is so small, we just load and go. It’s been off-the-charts successful.”

Tableau has made its mark in the business intelligence space by providing powerful, easy to use visual analytics that is unmatched across the industry. Award-winning Tableau Desktop lets people create interactive dashboards and visualizations using an easy drag-and-drop interface. Tableau Server, also an award winner, provides a complete web-based business intelligence solution for browser-based analytics anyone can learn and use. The suite can be deployed in hours, not months like traditional platforms.

Tableau recently expanded its Seattle, WA presence with new, additional offices in Kirkland on the eastside of the city; an open house is scheduled for June 14. People can register to attend at http://www.tableausoftware.com/kirkland-open-house. The company plans on hiring 150 people this year, many of them software developers. In addition, Tableau recently opened operations in Europe.

Gartner’s market share analysis report is based on direct surveys of 48 vendors with revenues over $10 million. For the Magic Quadrant reports, Gartner surveys customers of 28 vendors with revenues over $15 million.  

* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Tableau Software

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

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Panorama Necto(TM) First to Bring Social Media From the Consumer Realm Into Enterprise Business Applications

Mar 22, 2011 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Security, Technology | 0 comments

BI Revolution Marks a New Way to Interact with Data – Leveraging the Power of Many to Make Faster and Better Decisions

TORONTO (March 22, 2011) – Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, announced today the availability of its newest product, Panorama Necto, the industry’s first socially-enabled BI solution.

Panorama Necto is a new way to connect data, insights, and people in the organization. It enables business knowledge sharing among different users and across corporate units based on a business-oriented social platform.  

Companies increasingly focus on how to enable business users to make better real-time decisions as quickly as possible. While many solutions offer collaboration on documents, they do not provide a true knowledge sharing environment that is both tied into actual analytical data and is suggestive by nature. Panorama Necto enables social interaction for any specific report, KPI, chart, all the way to a single data cell.

Panorama Necto tracks an individual user’s interests, and intelligently suggests other networked users who are pursuing similar business goals. It also indicates who the users are that are relevant to the task at hand.  As discussion between these two (or more) previously unconnected users grows, the system records and organizes their work to allow it to be retrieved in the future. The meta-data created in this process is tied to the Business Intelligence data that triggered the building of such insight, and aids workers across all levels in their decision making and planning.  

Panorama Necto enables mentoring throughout the organization, with users having the ability to “subscribe” to others in order to follow the viewpoints and strategies of these selected users. Executive management that desires visibility into new business units can identify and follow the top performers to gain on-the-ground insights.

The product offers several practical applications for multiple business units. For example, improved collaboration among sales teams, including the creation of a database of business knowledge to help with sales-centric customer issues or complaints. Social BI allows executive management more advanced tools to keep them focused on core business goals, and provides insights into performance measurement and management. Ad hoc teams can use Necto to quickly form cohesive units through the sharing of multiple data sources and use of easier and more insightful collaboration tools.

“By integrating valuable social tools with our leading BI solution, we remain at the innovation forefront of our industry,” said Eynav Azarya, CEO of Panorama Software. “Necto is a huge leap forward as the first socially-enabled enterprise application. It applies the power of social media to the critical tasks of data analysis and decision making. We are bringing the social tools that are so prevalent and useful in the consumer world into a business climate. Social learning in business allows true collaboration on a different plane that is simply not possible in traditional business intelligence solutions.”

Traditional BI gives users a solution to their need to analyze information contained in multiple tools or forms. Once this issue has been solved, the real issue becomes that of knowing who are the internal and external partners with whom you can freely share information and insights, and who are your  best allies in making decisions. Necto solves the next stage of information analysis by enabling true collaboration and group insight.

Current customers of Panorama’s industry-leading NovaView BI solution can easily migrate to the Panorama Necto platform to immediately begin using its social capabilities. For more information, visit www.panorama.com.

About Panorama Software:

Panorama Software empowers individuals and global organizations with the ability to rapidly analyze data, identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through a complete SaaS and on-premise BI solution.

Panorama NovaView®, the company’s flagship solution, amplifies the impact of the information worker through a tightly integrated and complete suite of analysis, reporting, scorecard, dashboard and data modeling applications that are specifically designed for the Microsoft platform.

Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996; the technology was rebranded as SQL Server™ Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server™ platform.  Panorama supports over 1,500 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and life sciences.  Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. Visit our website to learn more about Panorama’s Business Intelligence Solutions.

NovaView, Necto and the Panorama logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panorama Software Ltd.  All other company product or brand names are the trademarks or the registered trademarks of their respective companies.  Panorama Software Ltd. is not responsible for errors or omissions.  Copyright 2009 Panorama Software Ltd.  All rights reserved.

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Jaspersoft Surpasses 100 Cloud BI Customers

Nov 02, 2010 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Jaspersoft Sets the Standard for Deploying BI in the Cloud, Launches a New Partner Program and Debuts a Free Trial for Cloud BI Software

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (November 02, 2010) – CLOUD COMPUTING EXPO, Booth #120 — Jaspersoft, provider of the world’s most widely deployed business intelligence (BI) software, today announced it had surpassed a milestone of 100 cloud BI customer deployments, growing at close to 300% year over year. Customers include Ad Genesis, Cardsmith, eBuilder, Energysys, Fat Spaniel, QED Financials, SereneCloud, Tomax, Virgin Money Giving and Yarris. Jaspersoft’s unprecedented success bringing BI to customers in the cloud demonstrates the strength of its BI platform. It also proves its partnership model to be superior to other companies’ direct SaaS deployment models, which have not gained similar traction. Today, to expand its success and offerings around cloud BI, Jaspersoft launched two new initiatives: a cloud-focused partnership program and a free trial of its BI platform in the cloud.

“If there is one thing we have learned since engaging our first cloud customer three years ago, it’s that there is a right way and a wrong way to tackle BI in the cloud,” said Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile. “With over 100 customers, we believe our ‘platform and partner’ approach is proving to be the best way to deliver BI in the cloud. Other vendors have had challenges selling cloud-based BI as a platform directly to end-user customers, forcing them to switch their focus to domain-specific BI applications. Our focus has been to provide a best-in-class BI platform for the cloud and let our partner channel, including SaaS ISVs and system integrators, bring the domain expertise to the end-user customer. I’m thrilled to see Jaspersoft and its partners at the forefront in this arena.”

Mark Madsen, President and Analyst, Third Nature – “Jaspersoft’s partnership approach to cloud BI sets them up to incorporate new technologies at any time and gives them the flexibility to change as consumers’ cloud BI needs change. Though cloud computing is still in its early stages, Jaspersoft’s strategy puts them in a good position to adapt moving forward.”

Jeremy Walters, Head of System Development at Virgin Money Giving – “Multi-tenancy is not a standard feature for cloud BI deployments and to see Jaspersoft offering multi-tenant access at this stage reaffirms their position as a leading BI provider that is well-equipped to tackle new challenges posed by the cloud.”

Jaspersoft’s “Cloud Platform and Partner” Program

Jaspersoft was one of the first BI providers to address BI in the cloud over three years ago, and later partnered with RightScale, the leading cloud management provider, and Full 360, a leading business intelligence and cloud consulting firm. The joint success resulted in Jaspersoft winning the prestigious SIIA 2010 CODiE award for “Best Cloud Infrastructure Platform”. Jaspersoft’s BI platform is based on a modern, flexible, standards-based architecture that is built from the ground up to support multiple deployment options. Jaspersoft’s rich web APIs and true multi-tenancy capabilities make it easy for partners to integrate in order to quickly deliver BI-enabled cloud applications to their customers.

Today, to meet growing demand for cloud BI, Jaspersoft is introducing a newly expanded partner program for ISVs and global SIs who want to leverage the Jaspersoft BI platform in the cloud for faster, more affordable reporting, analysis, and dashboarding. Partners joining this program can benefit from Jaspersoft’s Cloud BI experience as well joint sales and marketing activities focused on this area.

Josh Fraser, Vice President of Business Development at RightScale: “We are committed to partnering with leading technology vendors such as Jaspersoft to deliver complete solutions in the cloud. Today, we are seeing strong customer interest in sophisticated BI, backed by the low-cost, on-demand resources of the cloud. We are pleased to continue our successful partnership with Jaspersoft to address this market need with a proven BI solution.”

Larry Hill, Director of Business Development at Full360: “When it comes to cloud computing, there is truly no all-in-one solution; it’s about integrating the best-of-breed. With Jaspersoft, we’ve done just that. They have a defined market presence and a proven solution for cloud-based BI. We’re excited to be teaming up with them to meet the needs of our customers.”

Prospective partners interested in joining Jaspersoft’s Cloud Platform and Partnership Program can get more information here: http://www.jaspersoft.com/join-jaspersoft-partner-network.

Jaspersoft Live Offers Free Cloud BI Trial

Also launched today, Jaspersoft Live is a cloud-based trial environment that gives business intelligence users a true reporting, analysis, and dashboarding experience. Users receive free access to all Jaspersoft Enterprise BI Suite features without having to install any software.  

The Jaspersoft Enterprise BI Suite, featured in Jaspersoft Live:

  • Is a full BI suite including ad hoc query and reporting, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and advanced dashboarding,
  • Costs 80-90 percent less than traditional and niche BI providers,
  • Scales to any size deployment and includes big data capabilities,
  • Uses web standards within a modern, flexible architecture,
  • Contains a rich set of web service APIs that customize and extend easily,
  • Deploys in the cloud with options for full multi-tenancy, or on-premise.

Karl Van den Bergh, VP Product Strategy at Jaspersoft: “Jaspersoft recognizes there’s growing cost incentives to shift to the cloud. Both business managers and BI end-users looking at cloud BI options want to see the instant-on functionality of Jaspersoft’s BI platform, and Jaspersoft Live provides the proving ground for what a low-cost, yet full end-to-end BI cloud deployment can do.”

Prospective users interested in trying Jaspersoft Live can sign up here: http://www.jaspersoft.com/jaspersoft-live-trial.

RESOURCES AND LINKS

  • Join Jaspersoft’s Cloud Expo session on “Using BI in the Cloud” Wednesday, November 3.
  • Learn more about Jaspersoft’s Cloud BI.
  • Follow Jaspersoft on Twitter.
  • Join Jaspersoft on Facebook.
  • Read Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile’s Blog, OpenBookOnBI.

About Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. The BI suite includes pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, ad hoc query, dashboards, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and data integration. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premise, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence. Unlike traditional BI vendors, Jaspersoft is built on a modern, lightweight, standards-based architecture and offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Unlike niche BI vendors, Jaspersoft represents a safe choice with tens of thousands of production deployments across a wide range of industries.

Jaspersoft’s open source business intelligence software has more than 12 million product downloads worldwide, 160,000 production deployments in 100 countries and over 13,000 commercial customers. Its BI suite is advanced regularly by a development community of more than 175,000 registered members. For more information visit: http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

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Zap Business Intelligence 2010 Launched

Sep 14, 2010 | Internet, Technology | 0 comments

Easy, fast BI solution for the SQL Server platform

BRISBANE, Australia (September 14, 2010) – Zap today announced the launch of Zap Business Intelligence 2010, a new software solution that makes business intelligence (BI) more user-friendly and less reliant on technical experts.

“We heard clearly from the market that BI was too complex and technical to implement effectively, or even consider in the first place,” said Zap President, Garth D. Laird. “We went back to the drawing board to completely redesign our BI solutions to overcome this barrier, while also taking advantage of the latest architecture and deployment options such as cloud computing.”

Based on the Microsoft SQL Server® platform, Zap Business Intelligence 2010 is web-based and provides capabilities such as dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, analysis, alerts, report scheduling, and optional predictive analytics. A unique feature is the ability to easily share and re-use analytics between business units, geographies, companies, or even across different deployments.

Zap Business Intelligence 2010 meets the needs of enterprise and mid-market customers using many different business systems, and is available in Europe, Middle East, Africa, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

For customers with SQL Server® data sources or Microsoft Dynamics® data sources, Zap CubeXpress fast tracks cube creation and maintenance to enable rapid deployment with minimal technical resources. Microsoft Dynamics CRM, NAV and now AX customers can take advantage of this tool, and are also provided with out-of-the-box BI content to speed up implementation. Microsoft customers have the added advantage of integrating Zap Business Intelligence with their existing technology, such as Dynamics, SharePoint, Outlook, and Excel.

Comments from customers already seeing the benefit of Zap Business Intelligence 2010:

“Zap’s 2010 solution has a user friendly interface, and it’s easy to create and modify reports,” said Kristoffer Gustafson, LK Group IT Manager, Sweden. “We wanted fast access to performance figures, so a speedy implementation was important. A solution that could be used in our businesses across the world, including Asia, was also a consideration.”

“Zap Business Intelligence 2010 has changed the way we use our corporate information,” said Curt Wilson, Management Accountant, Angus Knight, Australia. “Across the company, our branches and departments are now kept instantly up-to-date and can be much more proactive about managing performance. We have freed staff from the burden of manual reporting, and can now focus on understanding insights, setting goals, and actually improving the business.”

About Zap

Zap creates business intelligence (BI) software that helps improve corporate performance. Committed to innovation, Zap was awarded the 2009 Microsoft Independent Software Vendor/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year, as well as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Australia. Zap software is used by mid-market companies through to enterprises, across many industries and business systems. Zap also offers a range of out-of-the-box solutions specifically for Microsoft Dynamics business solutions that fast track the return on investment in BI technology. Zap is a partner-led company, supporting customers and partners from offices across Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA); North America; Asia; and Australasia. For more information go to www.zaptechnology.com

Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Will County Health Department Using Kronos

Dec 17, 2009 | Computer & Electronics, Computer Software, Internet, Technology | 0 comments

The Will County Health Department in Illinois is using the time and attendance solution from Kronos® Incorporated to accurately track employee time at H1N1 flu vaccination clinics. The real-time information offered by Kronos is helping the department properly reimburse employees working extra hour

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (December 17, 2009) –

The Will County Health Department in Illinois is using the time and attendance solution from Kronos® Incorporated to accurately track employee time at H1N1 flu vaccination clinics. The real-time information offered by Kronos is helping the department properly reimburse employees working extra hours and effectively track labor hours accurately for federal grants received to administer the clinics.
News Facts

* Kronos is helping the health department pay its employees working extra hours at seven clinics set up in schools across the county. Employees are conducting various duties including site coordination, vaccine administration, and review of release forms.
* Will County Health Department is also using Kronos to develop a First Responder emergency tracking strategy.
* Kronos allows the health department to add extra pay codes and specific comments in the system, to help calculate accurate overtime for First Responders. Given the complexity of a government organization’s payroll environment, the more challenging pay rules a time and attendance system can handle, the greater the reduction in error.
* Will County Health Department selected Kronos to completely automate and centralize its time and attendance data collection process, which is a common weak point in many government infrastructures. If time and attendance data collection is done manually, it can leak hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars each year. Considering that labor costs represent one of the largest operational expenses for government organizations, time and attendance data collection is a great place to look for efficiency improvement and quick payback.

Supporting Quotes

* Sue Olenek, director of administrative services, Will County Health Department
“Complete automation of complex processes such as tracking time, calculating overtime, and managing absence leaves no room for error. This becomes even more critical when we need employees to spend extra hours during unforeseen circumstances. Kronos has been a valuable technology partner in enabling us to develop our First Responder strategy and helping us become as accountable as possible to the public.”
* Christine Carmichael, director of public sector marketing, Kronos
“Today it is the H1N1 virus that is capturing the nation’s attention, but tomorrow it may be another crisis. Since workers are key to successfully executing a First Responder strategy, the ability to actually track employee time is crucial. Will County Health Department is using Kronos solutions to achieve the important goal of tracking effectively during emergencies in addition to controlling labor costs, minimizing compliance risk, and improving workforce productivity.”

Supporting Resources

* About Will County Health Department

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 of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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WellStar Health System Selects Kronos

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

WellStar Health System has selected an integrated suite of workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (December 15, 2009) –

WellStar Health System has selected an integrated suite of workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. The solution will be used to effectively manage more than 11,000 employees across WellStar Health System’s five hospitals in northwest Georgia.
News Facts

* Previously, WellStar used a variety of labor-intensive products and processes for employee scheduling, time and attendance data collection, budgeting, and other decision support functions.
* WellStar’s management team realized the potential for incremental cost savings with an integrated and fully automated solution with applications to support all of its workforce management business processes.
* WellStar selected Kronos employee scheduling, labor analytics, and absence management applications, along with biometric data collection devices. As the Kronos solution operates in real time, WellStar managers will always be working with the most current, high-quality information.
* Anticipated benefits include standardized employee scheduling across all hospitals; better management reporting for more effective decision making; ability to track labor laws and regulations more consistently; and improved overall workforce productivity.

Supporting Quotes

* David Anderson, executive vice president, human resources/OL/COO, WellStar Health System
“Several of our executive team members had experienced the first-hand benefits of Kronos working at other healthcare systems. This made our selection process much easier. We see tremendous cost savings and productivity improvement opportunities with the Kronos workforce management solution.”
* Brian Graves, global practice leader of healthcare, Kronos
“Healthcare organizations are increasingly supplementing time and attendance systems by adding strategic workforce management applications to maximize the benefits of an integrated and automated system. We are very pleased with the fast adoption of our solution by WellStar because of the support of the executive team. We are confident that both management and employees will benefit from our solution.”

Supporting Resources

* About WellStar Health System – The vision of WellStar Health System is to deliver world-class healthcare through its hospitals, physicians, and services. WellStar Health System includes Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone, Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; WellStar Physicians Group; Urgent Care Centers; Health Place; Homecare; Hospice; Atherton Place; Paulding Nursing Center; and the WellStar Foundation. For more information, call 770-956-STAR or visit www.wellstar.org.

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 of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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