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Syndera Announces Release of Syndera Operational Business Intelligence Suite 3.0

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Syndera announced the release of Syndera Operational Business Intelligence Suite 3.0. This new version of Syndera Operational BI includes time-series and trend analysis capabilities to improve real-time decisions and historical analysis, and enhanced performance to tackle the most demanding transaction environments. This release also contains features that accelerate Syndera deployment across multiple business units.

“We are continuing our market and innovation leadership by further enhancing the proven capabilities in Syndera Operational Business Intelligence Suite 3.0,” said Janet Heppner-Jones, CEO, Syndera. “With the additional analytical tools and enhanced performance in Syndera Operational BI Suite 3.0, we can help organizations gain control of mission-critical business processes by providing intuitive ways to monitor, analyze, and act on business events.”

With Syndera Operational Business Intelligence Suite 3.0, Syndera customers gain the advantage of employing-time series and trend analysis to their business events to make better decisions from the real-time information they presently capture. Trend analysis functions can be applied to the historical data from key performance indicators (KPIs). Available functions include: moving average, difference, rate of change, and lag. Trend charts display the performance metrics over time periods such as daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, past 100-day, and past 200-days. In addition, real-time metrics can be visually compared against historical performance, including comparison against statistical averages using Bollinger bands. [Read more…]

Palo: Business Intelligence for OpenOffice.org

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The Open-Source companies Jedox GmbH and Tensegrity GmbH, the Chemnitz University of Technology and the Australian company De Bortoli Wines started a cooperation for the development of a Business Intelligence Add-In for OpenOffice.org. They now seek additional sponsors to start the project.

A combination of Spreadsheet-Software plus a capable server for Business Intelligence and OLAP becomes more and more popular. While Microsoft offers the combination of MS Office and Office PerformancePoint Server as a comprehensive BI solution, there is a sophisticated and free alternative: the Open Source based Palo Server. For Palo version 1.5 there already is a free Add-In available which helps convert Excel 200, XP, 2003 and 2007 into a server based solution for analysis and planning.

More and more companies are realizing the value of using Open Source software in the enterprise. Since Palo was launched around a year ago, this Open Source product has not only been embraced by a large number of individual users, but also various larger organizations, such as the German Chamber of Commerce (Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag), ALTANA Pharma Germany and now also De Bortoli Wines, one of Australia’s larger privately owned companies. [Read more…]

LogiXML delivers Logi 8 web-based business intelligence platform

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Organizations looking to harness the value of their databases and applications and transform the data into usable, business-critical information can do so quickly and affordably with Logi 8, a new interactive, Web-based business intelligence platform from LogiXML (www.logixml.com). Logi 8 is a pure Web-based, unified and XML-based solution that offers robust BI functionality, including managed and ad hoc reporting, OLAP analysis and BI data services, accessible by technical and non-technical users in organizations of all sizes.

Logi 8’s open, standards-based architecture makes it easy to implement and easy to use. Organizations can have sophisticated, enterprise-class reporting applications up and running on Logi 8 in hours, as opposed to the weeks or months it can take to deploy legacy BI products. Logi 8 empowers users at all technical levels and across all functional groups in an organization by allowing them to access, analyze and share business information through BI capabilities optimized for specific user groups.

Logi 8 offers organizations a compelling value proposition that combines depth and breadth of product and pure Web-based design with an aggressive pricing and licensing model that supports scaling BI implementations to serve many users in an organization. Companies license Logi 8 on a per server basis, instead of per seat, at an affordable price point, which makes it far more cost-effective than competitive offerings — in some cases, up to 80 percent less expensive. The pure Web-based design of the Logi 8 platform means that it is optimized for interactive reporting and that reports are accessible by the full range of Web-access devices, including innovative products like the new Apple iPhone. [Read more…]

MicroStrategy to Provide Enterprise Business Intelligence to Paramount Pictures

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MicroStrategy today announced that MicroStrategy will support Paramount Pictures’ enterprise business intelligence program, which will provide reporting and analytics for multiple areas across the company. Paramount Pictures is a unit of Viacom.

Paramount, which currently uses tools from Cognos, plans to use MicroStrategy throughout the organization for reporting and analysis of key business areas, including sales and operations. With MicroStrategy, Paramount users will gain enhanced insights into category management, providing valuable sales information by product, category, and geography, to better understand which products and categories are selling well, and in which locations. Paramount also plans to use MicroStrategy for operational reporting to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and make data-driven business decisions.

“We were impressed with MicroStrategy’s intuitive web interface, scalable 64-bit architecture, and robust analytical capabilities for mission-critical applications,” said Joe Churchill of Paramount Pictures. “Following a thorough analysis of MicroStrategy’s advanced features and functionality, we determined that MicroStrategy was a better fit for our enterprise business intelligence than our current provider.”

“We are delighted that Paramount has selected MicroStrategy to enhance its reporting and analysis capabilities,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy provides an excellent solution for companies seeking to extend the benefits of business intelligence across the enterprise. Leading companies around the globe are choosing MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform to gain visibility into their operations and to help make important revenue-generating decisions.”

Business Objects Rated Best in Business Intelligence by Readers of Intelligent Enterprise

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Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that readers of Intelligent Enterprise have again recognized Business Objects for providing the “Best Business Intelligence Suite.” The company received an Intelligent Enterprise 2006 Readers’ Choice Award based on the quality and performance of BusinessObjectsâ„¢ XI Release 2, which provides a complete solution for performance management, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. Intelligent Enterprise readers also recognized Business Objects for providing leading products in the “Best Data Quality and Profiling Software” category. This is the sixth straight year Business Objects was honored with an Intelligent Enterprise Readers’ Choice Award. [Read more…]