Category: Business Intelligence Trends

Harvard Business School to Benefit from WiseWindow Business Intelligence Program

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

WiseWindow recently announced it has gifted Harvard Business School’s Baker Library a $5 million dollar program. The program will provide the library with real time data and toolsets for educational use in the development of post-graduate curriculum and research.

The new program, MOBI 2.0, (Mass Opinion Business Intelligence) is designed to help train the next generation of MBAs on how to effectively manage business in real time which is something the students have never had access to before.

The initial deployment to students and faculty was completed in early February. Harvard Business School’s MBA candidates now have full access to the MOBI platform and they are using it in their curriculum development.

The program is teaching students about real-time business decision-making and management, business economics and demand-based modeling, and in research. It also includes how to support case study-based coursework.

The Executive Director of Knowledge and Library Services at Harvard Business School, Mary Lee Kennedy said they support Harvard Business School’s mission by enabling the creation of ideas, expertise and information.

The MOBI 2.0 combines cloud computing, proprietary deep website crawling, relevance recognition and statistical natural language analysis, which provides business decision makers with the unmatched ability to identify, measure and qualify consumer intent information in real time before it turns into action.

MOBI distills the data into a pre-defined, structure database providing an up to the minute view of consumer sentiment. This is done by collecting, analyzing and classifying the billions of unbiased consumer comments made online annually from across the web.

President of WiseWindow, Marshall Toplansky, said they are thrilled to be at Harvard Business School training some of the world’s future business leaders, especially since Harvard is one of the most prestigious educational facilities in the world.

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UltiPro to Deliver Business Intelligence for Equipment Depot

Ultimate Software recently announced that Equipment Depot has selected its UltiPro to consolidate its payroll, Human Resources, compensation management, and recruitment processes into one unified solution.

Equipment Depot is a diversified equipment dealership that sells, services, rents and provides parts for many leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts, and construction equipment. They employ more than 1,450 people in 13 states in the U.S. which makes handling their scope of human capital management a challenging proposition.

Vice President of Human Resources with Equipment Depot, Leora Kirby, says as they continue to acquire new subsidiaries and grow organically, they need smarter, more agile answers to manage its business operations, especially related to Human Capital Management.

Kirby says they are in the process of combining five companies into one. The company wants one centralized payroll solution will could accommodate their current needs, as well as keep pace with their company as they grow in the future.

Equipment Depot was looking for a high-caliber HCM platform with a single database, 24-7 Web accessibility for their workforce, and end-to-end functionality and they wanted to take advantage of SaaS innovation, according to Kirby.

Equipment Depot selected UltiPro in November of 2010 and their company leadership is anxious to combine its multiple data platforms into a single, uniform solution that delivers real-time visibility across the business.

Chief Sales Officer for Ultimate Software, Greg Swick, says they are delighted that Equipment Depot has selected UltiPro for the advantages of their cloud-based HCM and they look forward to collaborating with them and sharing expertise.

Ultimate Software is a provider of unified human capital management SaaS solutions for global business. It markets its award-winning UltiPro solutions as Software-as-a-Service and is based in Weston, FL. They have nearly 1,100 professionals currently employed.

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QlikView Business Analytics Solutions Now Available from Hexaware

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Hexaware Technologies Limited recently announced that it has entered into a partnership with QlikTech, a provider of Business Intelligence software. Hexaware will now be able to deliver powerful and easy-to-use solutions based on QlikTech’s software platform QlikView. These solutions will empower customers to make faster, smarter business decisions and provide them more control over projects.

QlikTech pioneered the in-memory, associative search and analytics technology that has been the forefront of more advanced dashboards, reporting and mobile Business Intelligence applications. Their powerful technology platform also facilitates visualization of data in a simple, intuitive user interface to interactively explore and analyze information.

V.P. of Alliances at QlikTech Americas, Patrick McCue, says they are very proud to establish this partnership with a leading global system integrator like Hexaware Technologies.

McCue stated that Hexaware’s customers can now leverage best-of-breed analytics and reporting solutions based on QlikView that can address their specific needs and allow them to successfully respond to rapid changes in business conditions.

Powerful analytics and reporting tools like QlikView’s, coupled with smartly crafted business rules, can optimize the IT assets of any enterprise. This in turn can help them in making right decisions at the right time.

This partnership provides QlikTech with access to leverage Hexaware’s presence in Banking, Capital Markets, Healthcare, Insurance and Travel and Transportation verticals globally.

Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process outsourcing services that focus exclusively on maximizing client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. The company has a client base of several Global 1000 organizations and have operations located in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific. Their commitment is to provide solutions that translate into tangible business outcomes for their customers.

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Alliance Agreement for Business Intelligence Announced by Deloitte

Deloitte recently announced it has signed an alliance agreement with MicroStrategy Incorporated to develop and deliver solutions to help clients improve their information, business intelligence and analytic capabilities.

Deloitte will combine MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence technology with its broad array of consulting, advisory and implementation services to assist their mutual clients in meeting information, business intelligence and analytic needs under the new agreement.

The alliance will include collaboration on solution, service and market development, education, training, sales and delivery.

The use of information and analytics can be a critical driver of revenue and competitive differentiation and can assist management in making more effective business decisions while managing information for a strategic business advantage.

Lee Dittmar, principal for Deloitte Consulting LLP, says the increasing emphasis on analytics has significant implications for IT and business leaders and the new alliance combines Deloitte’s information management services with MicroStrategy’s software to give clients a significant advantage in accelerating their analytical programs.

As expectations continue to rise, many leaders are shifting their thinking from a tactical approach for management reporting to a more strategic approach involving analytics. Deloitte is positioned well in the information management space with a demonstrated depth and breadth of competencies to help clients deliver on their analytics vision.

MicroStrategy’s chief operating officer, Sanju Bansal, says both Deloitte and MicroStrategy recognize that business priorities are increasingly driven by the need for better and earlier insights on markets, customers, suppliers, employees, regulation and risks, and that there is a need for solutions to integrate business, industry and functional capabilities with advanced information management and analytical technologies.

MicroStrategy was founded in 1989 and is a provider of business intelligence technology. The company provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software helping organizations worldwide make better business decisions each day.

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools Help Drive Revenue for Kimberly-Clark

Apr 27, 2011 | Bi Software, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has adopted a Microsoft business intelligence solution to improve manufacturing efficiency and increase business agility. The company selected the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform due to its user-friendly interfaces, extensibility and integration into existing Microsoft Software.

By using a suite of Microsoft solutions, which include Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007 for reporting needs, Kimberly-Clark provides business analysts with greater visibility into its supply chain, inventory and manufacturing performance.

With the BI platform in place, the company can more easily pull and collect data, such as corporate forecast variance and in-stock tools, without an extreme learning curve.

Ramon F. Baez, V.P. of IT Services and Chief Information Officer at Kimberly-Clark, says the Microsoft business intelligence solution has transformed the way they do business. Employees can make faster decision and leverage mission-critical information to stay one step ahead of their competitors.

In the first three months since the deployment, Kimberly-Clark has already increased production efficiency to store reports and standardize work across multiple resources.

They have also realized a gain of $10 million in additional revenue by avoiding “out of stock” scenarios by successfully implementing the BI solution on all of its supply chain and manufacturing domains.

Kimberly-Clark is now looking to reproduce the benefits of the solution in other areas of the company and plans to add new capabilities to the existing BI solution when it upgrades to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010.

Kimberly-Clark offers a full range of global brands, including Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups and several other products.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a provider of software, services and solutions helping people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Cloud-Based Intelligence for SMBs Offered by BitNami, Jaspersoft

Apr 27, 2011 | Bi Software, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

BitNami and Jaspersoft recently announced a partnership to bring open source business intelligence to the cloud. BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively and virtually in the cloud.
BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications that are ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solutions providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage their business applications such as Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more.

Jaspersoft provides flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suites that enable better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis.

Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors and 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. It offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Jaspersoft’s open source BI software has more than 12 million product downloads worldwide, 160,000 production deployments and over 13,000 commercial customers in 100 countries.

Businesses of all sizes can deploy the JasperReports Server Community Edition open source report server on the Amazon EC2 Cloud with the click of a button using BitNami Cloud Hosting.

A BitNami-enabled deployment of JasperReports Server can be up and running in just minutes and scaled up or down to meet changing requirements.

Senior Director of Technology Alliances at Jaspersoft, Andrew Lampitt, says they are pleased that BitNami is offering Jaspersoft Community Editions in the cloud for instant access to powerful open source business intelligence.

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