JasperSoft, a provider of open source business intelligence solutions, launched Jasper4Salesforce, an on-demand version of the its open source reporting and business intelligence solution. Jasper4Salesforce delivers advanced reporting, charting, and report management that is fully integrated with and optimized for salesforce.com.
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Panorama Software announced at the SAP Reporting and Analytics Conference in Orlando, Florida, the general availability of Panorama NovaView 5, Release 2 for SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP BW). After recently achieving full SAP certified integration and becoming a Powered by NetWeaver partner, the Company tailored their flagship solution to empower more enterprises using SAP NetWeaver to improve their BI capabilities.
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Latigent will debut the next generation of its BlueVue Business Intelligence Suite at a World Wide Web Event to be hosted on Nov. 1st at 11:30 AM CST.
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Oracle announced the next release of its open, standards-based suite of enterprise business intelligence (BI) products: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3. This release of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE focuses on three key areas:
InforSense, a London-based provider of enterprise real-time analytics, has secured $10 million in new VC funding. InforSense informatics platform is used for seamless integration of all types of data resources, analytical tools, applications and services in life sciences, healthcare, consumer goods and financial services organisations. It enables decision-makers to interactively analyse data, gain new insights and communicate both methods and results across the organisation.
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Traditional approaches to business intelligence and reporting solutions have focused on accessing 
and delivering data. Visual i|o significantly enhances the user interface and achieves this in the way that we look at the system and flow of infomation from capture, storage, logic and interpretation through the user interface, and ultimately, its meaning and use to the user. Visual i|o’s patent pending system for application delivery utilizes a logical model uniquely designed around business and decision-making perspectives —Visual i|o’s Business Reporting Architecture.
Visual i|o advanced visualization applications offer a more effective way to acquire, analyze, understand, and use information. The presentation-tier applications leverage existing IT systems and data sources to bring an entirely new level of visibility and clarity to support the decision-making efforts of executives, managers, knowledge workers, and consumers.
The new WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework 3.1 Introduces New Features Including Predictive Analysis and Forecasting, Alert Management, and Business-Process Management.As everyone – from CEO to process clerk to supplier – needs access to good information, this flexible, modular PM framework is easily tailored to enable anyone in the organization to participate in a "culture of accountability." Each person monitors, analyzes, and manages performance in line with your unique corporate objectives.
PMF combines the analytic, graphical, predictive, and discovery aspects of BI with the cause/effect, weighting, balancing, and leading-indicator analysis of performance management.
Verint Systems has announced the introduction of Customer Interaction Analytics (CI Analytics), a new enterprise analytics offering that combines platform-agnostic speech analytics with Interaction Intelligence™ methodology to help organizations enhance customer retention and satisfaction, increase first call resolution and improve sales and self service effectiveness. CI Analytics operates independently of call recording infrastructure that may already be deployed in the enterprise. Designed to be delivered as a managed service via a network of certified consulting partners, CI Analytics is ideally suited for large enterprises with traditionally high volumes of customer interactions.
CI Analytics is built on Verint speech analytics and expertise in customer behavior analysis, business process optimization and operational transformation techniques developed by working with leading enterprises around the world. This unique combination of technology and methodology enables enterprises to identify their most important interactions and analyze their true impact on customer relationships. Armed with this intelligence, CI Analytics then determines a new approach to these “moment of truth” interactions that promotes greater customer centricity and better business outcomes.
QlikTech, a provider of in-memory reporting and analysis solutions, today announced the completion of benchmarking tests of QlikView 7.5 on HP Integrity and Pr oLiant servers. The benchmarking is available at http://www.qliktech.com/hpwhitepaper.
QlikView running on HP servers can load 1 billion records. Tested platforms achieved 1 billion record loads with instant to near-instant response times. Performance testing showed that HP Integrity servers (Superdome ) are uniquely equipped to handle extremely heavy loads of large applications (500 million and 1 billion) with many concurrent users.
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DataJungle Software, a provider of customizable business intelligence (BI) front-end dashboard software for both the Microsoft SQL Server and Cognos BI platforms, has reported that its proprietary Matrix dashboard software has been selected by InSinkErator to deploy performance metrics dashbaord on top of an existing Cognos business intelligence infrastructure.
DataJungle Matrix 4 is a zero footprint Web front-end to the Microsoft business intelligence (BI) platform. Matrix brings together, in one integrated product, all the key BI capabilities required by the broadest range of end users in an organization - including: dashboards, analysis, Web reports, annotation, collaboration, scorecards, and wireless alerts. Matrix integrates with the key Microsoft business intelligence technologies - including: Analysis Services (OLAP, ROLAP, and HOLAP), Reporting Services, SQL Server, and SharePoint. Views based on Cognos PowerPlay cubes can also be included in Matrix dashboards.
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Syndera, a provider of operational intelligence solutions to Wall Street banks, announced the general availability of Syndera Operational Intelligence Suite, version 2.4 in June.
Some of the largest capital markets companies, in Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Equities, are using the Syndera Operational Intelligence Suite to monitor trade metrics and events as they occur in real-time to gain insight into their trading business in various markets. Syndera provides its clients with the operational intelligence tools necessary to monitor, analyze, and act in a proactive way to trade more profitably, and increase levels of customer service. Syndera enables trading desks to see specific orders as they occur, understand if the process is performing quickly enough to win business, and execute in a manner to mitigate threats and assure profitable trades.
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LogiXML launched a new Open Source site as the first step toward allowing access to a portfolio of applications built on the company’s LGX platform. The company has developed this site to aggressively support collaborative development through open sharing of information, documentation and BI applications built using the LogiXML platform.
The new site http://opensource.logixml.com/ is a community forum designed for sharing and collaboration and will host a variety of LGX-based BI applications that users can download to use and modify as they choose. LGX-based applications, which are assembled from pre-defined elements, are defined by the company as “appliments.”
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Oracle unveiled PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 9, the latest product to be elivered from Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 suite, demonstrating Oracle commitment in business intelligence.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management is an integrated suite of analytic applications that enables organizations to drive world-class performance by aligning the right information and resources to strategic objectives. The new release demonstrates Oracle focus in building out analytic applications by extending the suite capabilities, while continuing to emphasize usability. New features of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management include expanded enterprise planning and compliance management capabilities and new industry functionality.
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StratBridge unveiled StratView, an interactive color-coded dashboard that enables sports teams, business analysts, financial investors, and other data-dependent professionals to make smart decisions faster than with standard chart tools. StratView harnesses the power of Microsoft .NET initiative, giving users powerful charting tools affordably, and with a small technology footprint.
StratBridge Web services platform eliminates the headaches and high costs of bulky, expensive data analysis applications that commandeer an organization bandwidth and generate information that immediately becomes stale. StratBridge hosts each product so customers do not need to install or manage the application.
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Hyperion has integrated the visual analysis software from Tableau Software into its Hyperion System 9 BI+ business intelligence platform. This new version of Hyperion Visual Explorer provides enhanced capabilities in predictive and statistical analytics.
Hyperion Visual Explorer enables ad hoc analysis and "what if" modeling for exploration of operational and financial data through an easy-to-use graphical interface, making it possible for users to identify trends, outliers and relationships more quickly.
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Nexidia, a provider of audio search and speech analytics solutions for government intelligence, contact center management, rich media content producers and the legal industry, has raised up to $13 million in venture financing from Morgan Stanley in August.
Few weeks ago, Nexidia also announced eDiscovery OnDemand, a managed service that enables law firms and litigation support providers to use Nexidia’s secure infrastructure to upload recorded audio for search and analysis. Nexidia litigation consultants will help tailor the project to identify relevant audio content, and search results can be integrated back into an existing litigation repository or review tool. Nexidia phonetic engine technology also allows the user to search on proper names, places, industry terms and jargon without extensive training and cumbersome dictionaries.
In the past year Nexidia analyzed and reported on over 12 million recordings.
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Adaptive Planning has announced an open source edition of their Business Performance Management (BPM) solution, embracing the Principles of Open Source Distribution and Community.
Adaptive Planning Express Edition provides a full set of capabilities for collaborative budgeting, reporting and analysis. Features include an intuitive, spreadsheet-like user interface; standard sheets for planning expenses and revenues; a specialized personnel planning sheet; formula-based modeling; and management of organizational hierarchies and user access rights. It can be downloaded and installed for individual use, as well as configured to provide web-based support for departmental teams or entire companies.
This open source express edition can be downloaded free from www.sourceforge.net/projects/adaptiveplan.
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Oracle announced that it will enhance its Oracle Business Intelligence Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings by acquiring the intellectual property assets of Sigma Dynamics, a leading provider of real-time predictive analytics technology. Sigma Dynamics Real-time Decision software combines customer insight and business requirements to make the best recommendation in each customer interaction and operational decision by intelligently adapting to continuously changing information. Key decision applications include real-time offer management, field service optimization, predictive call routing, and fraud detection. In combination with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware, businesses will be able to leverage the insight contained in both historical and real-time data sources to drive better decisions in practically any situation.
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A growing number of business intelligence (BI) vendors are offering BI software as a service (SaaS). They range from well-known companies such as Business Objects (with www.crystalreports.com), Cognos and SAS to new entrants such as LucidEra and Oco and Seatab, which have established their presence over the last two years, according Ventana Research (via DMReview).
In evaluating the SaaS model, Ventana Research recommends that organizations carefully consider security implications, such where the hardware physically is located, who has access to the servers and data, and the impact of these factors on regulatory compliance.
SeeWhy Software announced the availability of SeeWhy Community Edition, the first fully functional real-time business intelligence (BI) platform that is completely free to use. Backed by an active user community and full-time product engineering team, SeeWhy Community Edition allows software developers, business analysts and technical enthusiasts to rapidly develop and deploy commercial-grade, real-time BI applications. The platform is immediately available for download at www.seewhy.com/products.
SeeWhy is the first company to deliver products that demonstrate the power of BI 2.0 – the next generation of BI technology. As a result, organizations can react to issues and capitalize on opportunities in real time. In contrast, traditional query-based BI tools rely on out-of-date data with limited ability to help users understand and manage current real-time business operations.
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Pentaho Corp., creator of a popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced the near-term availability of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.2, which offers significant ease-of-use enhancements and the broadest open source BI offering available. Upgrades include report templates, new chart types, drag-and-drop BI workflows, and a variety of enhancements to increase administrator productivity.
This release expands on the capabilities that Pentaho introduced in version 1.0 in December of 2005 as the first credible open source alternative to proprietary BI suites. The broad functionality, flexible architecture and open source model of the Pentaho suite have attracted a worldwide user base and community and made it the world’s most popular open source BI suite.Continue reading "Pentaho Announces Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.2" »
QlikTech, a leading provider of in-memory reporting and analysis solutions, used a recent competitive analysis report from IDC, "Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares," as a backdrop to present its vision for the next generation of business intelligence solutions. During the first half of 2006, QlikTech has exceeded growth expectations, expanding at a rate of more than 70 percent and adding an average of ten new customers daily. Central to QlikTech success is the continued demand for its flagship product QlikView, an innovative business analysis solution that enables customers to improve decision making effectiveness with unprecedented ease and speed.
QlikTech supports an information architecture where business data is broadly, affordably and quickly available to those who need it. QlikView uses next-generation patented in-memory association technology to make sophisticated analysis dramatically easier to deploy, use and maintain, with faster refreshes and easier access to more detailed data. The click driven, visually interactive interface is simple for end users to learn and use.
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JasperServer Professional is designed to give everyone in an organization the power to create their own BI reports, including control over layout, data columns, groups, summaries, formatting, labels, and titles. In addition, JasperSoft has extended its certification of third-party platforms for JasperServer Professional to include Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, Oracle Application Server, MySQL, Oracle Database; IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Server, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX.
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Spotfire DXP makes analysis business-friendly, embodying the way that business professionals want to experience and share their data. With Spotfire DXP, all users are more confident in working with data—rapidly converting new insights into competitive advantages for their business.
Spotfire, a leading provider of analytics software, announced the immediate availability of Spotfire DXP (Spotfire Data Experience), a newly architected analytics offering that sets a new standard for interacting with information. Spotfire has broken through the glass ceiling that has limited the business impact of analytics to a small group of experts, with an enterprise analytics solution that enables all key business professionals to author and share analytic results.
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A recent research study conducted at the 2006 SAPAdmin conference found that over 60% of SAP customers experience frequent performance and availability issues in their existing SAP implementations. The primary reason for these performance issues is the lack of visibility into the impact of workload, infrastructure and application changes on future performance and capacity requirements.
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The solution is designed to simplify data collection and transformation, improve the productivity of the finance staff and lower the cost of compliance. It includes a unique option that allows companies to push consolidated results to their existing tax preparation application, reducing the time and money frequently spent on a largely manual, error prone process.
The Hyperion System 9 Financial Data Quality Management solution also offers functionality for lowering compliance costs, including instant error checking, audit validation, automatic archival and closing functionality.
In early June Microsoft announced that it was augmenting its business intelligence product portfolio with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, an enterprise performance management analytic application with scorecarding, planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and financial reporting functionality.
Microsoft entry into a market typically has several effects, not the least of which are bringing attention to the technology and increasing the overall level of competition. The pre-announcements served as a catalyst for many BI tools vendors to further differentiate themselves by offering analytic application solutions.
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Panorama Software, a business intelligence (BI) solutions vendor, today announced its new integration with the latest release of Google Spreadsheets as part of its NovaView BI suite. Recently Panorama announced its plans to integrate with the upcoming release of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint – leveraging these powerful applications for enterprise BI solutions. By extending these capabilities with Google Spreadsheets, Panorama will enable new collaboration scenarios outside the firewall.
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Cognos a provider in business intelligence and performance management solutions, recently announced that it is becoming the business intelligence solution of choice for software as a service (SaaS) application providers and their customers.
"SaaS will be a pervasive application business model over the next four years, and Cognos is already at the forefront of this evolution through its strong relationships and partner deployments," said Jennifer Francis, Vice President of Market Development, Cognos. Cognos 8 BI provides enterprise-class business intelligence capabilities to organizations through a low-risk, low-cost hosted environment, and helps companies gain better visibility and insight into organizational performance.
The newest version of IBM WebSphere Product Center provides master data management (MDM) capabilities for managing product information in the retail, consumer packaged goods, consumer electronics and manufacturing industries. Designed to improve performance, flexibility and scalability, it offers new service-oriented architecture (SOA) features to help organizations collect, author, rationalize and publish product information across multiple internal systems, as well as externally with trading partners. This should help accelerate time to market and generate new business and revenue opportunities. WebSphere Product Center also supports SQL-like queries to help organizations find and retrieve precise product-related information.