Business Intelligence Journal

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Gartner Names SeaTab Software a “Cool Vendor” in Business Intelligence

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SeaTab Software was named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner in a report titled “Cool Vendors in Analytics, Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management, 2007”. The report features five vendors cited by Gartner analysts for their innovation and market impact.

“It is an honor for SeaTab and the nearly 12,000 companies that use our solutions to be acknowledged by Gartner,” said David Weld, CEO of SeaTab Software. “Accolades for technology and innovation are wonderful, but we’re most proud of what we believe to be recognition for delivering extremely powerful, self-directed business intelligence to our users.” [Read more…]

Panorama Software Launches Business Intelligence Virtual Appliance

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Panorama Software announced the availability of the Panorama NovaView® Virtual Appliance. The first-of-its-kind, the Panorama NovaView Virtual Appliance is a pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software-based appliance with an operating system and a pre-configured suite of BI applications inside a virtual machine. Panorama Software’s Virtual Appliance enables customers to download and configure an enterprise ready version of Panorama NovaView in just a few hours.

Utilizing leading-edge technology from VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, Panorama Software has built the first-of-its-kind Virtual Appliance to provide customers with the most cost-effective and user-friendly means to deploy their flagship enterprise BI solution – Panorama NovaView®.

“Panorama is changing the rules on how business intelligence applications are deployed and put into the hands of the information worker,” said Oudi Antebi, Vice President Marketing and Strategy, Panorama Software. “The value and importance of BI continues to grow within companies of all sizes and across all industries. With more decision makers accountable for the results within an organization, the last thing a company wants to deal with is complex BI deployments that consume precious IT resources. The value of BI is getting critical information into the hands of the people who need it. Today’s announcement of the first BI Virtual Appliance will help companies to get one step closer to meeting that goal.” [Read more…]

WhereScape Signs Technology Agreement with MicroStrategy

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WhereScape Software, provider of the first lifecycle management software solution specifically designed for data warehouses, announced today a technology agreement with MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software.

WhereScape will deliver a version of WhereScape RED that integrates with MicroStrategy and enables users to easily create new data warehouses and data marts at least 30 percent faster, or in a matter of hours or a day, compared to traditional methods which take weeks and months. Not only does this make developers more productive but it slashes data warehouse development costs by as much as half. With WhereScape RED, MicroStrategy users also will be able to quickly and easily create meta data for new MicroStrategy “projects” that will help minimize the complexity and time to create business intelligence reports. A “project” is a mapping that communicates with MicroStrategy business intelligence tools on what data will be available to the users and how to access it.

WhereScape RED addresses the growing need for an Integrated Development Environment that supports the entire data warehouse lifecycle and provides enterprises with far more productivity, flexibility and speed in building, prototyping and enhancing data warehouses. WhereScape RED provides a complete and integrated data warehouse lifecycle management environment for data warehouses developed on Oracle, SQL Server or Teradata. [Read more…]

IBM in “Leaders Quadrant” for Business Intelligence Services

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Gartner has positioned IBM in the Leaders Quadrant in its report, “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Services, North America, 2007.” According to Gartner, “the Leaders provide offerings that meet demand, as well as demonstrate the vision necessary to sustain their position as requirements evolve in the Business Intelligence (BI) market.” The report also states, “BI and performance management have significant impact across an enterprise. Organizations seek to achieve business value from the analysis of their information through the use of IT. Gartner forecasts the market for BI-related services to grow at a five-year compounded annual rate of 5.8 percent worldwide and reach more than $20 billion by 2010.” According to the IBM Global Innovation Outlook, the amount of digital information is expected to double every 11 hours by 2010. The most successful corporations will be those who master structured and unstructured information flow throughout their organization thus improving decision making and overall business performance. IBM’s Global BI Practice is committed to helping businesses gain more value from these information assets. As the complexity of managing these information architectures increases, organizations are facing new challenges that require new approaches and technologies.

IBM Global Business Services’ BI practice provides the industry’s broadest and deepest BI services, by providing the right balance and combination of industry, functional/operational, technical and change management skills to deliver comprehensive, value-added BI solutions. This combination provides a basis for integrated, business-driven solutions with demonstrable business return throughout the enterprise. [Read more…]

Priceline.com Selects MicroStrategy for Online Search Analysis and Reporting

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Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) has chosen MicroStrategy to anchor key marketing reporting capabilities. Priceline.com is an Internet-based travel service that offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages, and cruises.

Priceline.com selected MicroStrategy to enhance its analytic and reporting capabilities and provide greater insight into key operational data for search engine marketing. With the ability to obtain and analyze granular data, Priceline.com marketing analysts will have actionable data that they can use to improve the return-on-ad-spend of its search engine marketing campaigns.

MicroStrategy was selected by Priceline.com for its Web-based platform, data and user scalability, advanced reporting and analytical capabilities, and integrated metadata for automated maintainability. Priceline.com marketing analysts will run reports and perform analyses against an Oracle(R) data warehouse. [Read more…]