Information Builders Announces Partnerships

December 8, 2008

Information Builders has announced partnerships with MegaMation, Accertify, iovation, Creative Data Solutions, 41st Parameter and ScottTech. IB says that the companies is building platforms using its WebFOCUS and iWay Software. MegaMation uses SaaS to provide facility maintenance management services. Accertify offers a SaaS to fight credit card fraud. Iovation provides device reputation services. 41st Parameter is a fraud intervention service. Creative Data Solutions provides management services to government entities and Scott Tech builds a warehouse control system.

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Vovici Speeds Info for Managers

December 5, 2008

Vovici has introduced Feedback Intelligence, which the firm says combines business intelligence and feedback data. The platform, which works with the Vovici EFM Community, is designed to provide everyday business managers with the ability to quickly access data mining, data analysis and reporting information. The goal is to enable far faster and insightful decisions.

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Aberdeen: BI Works for SMBs

December 5, 2008

Last month, the Aberdeen Group released a report that said that 58 percent of SMBs were able to eliminate or drastically reduce the time it took to amass usable information through the use of business intelligence tools. The companies in the survey–which have annual revenues less than $500 million–are increasingly interested in improving decisions by better management of data and deployment of the proper BI tools.

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DFS Taps MicroStrategy

December 5, 2008

MicroStrategy will provide BI tools to the DFS Group, according to the companies. DFS, a worldwide luxury caterer, will use MicroStategy software to provide sales information by product, category and geography. The vendor also will be called on to analyze and report on store front activities and other tasks.

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Where BI and EPM Software Meet

December 4, 2008

David Abdo, the CEO of Bitam, says that everyone has their own definitions of business intelligence software and enterprise performance management software. Thus, it is important for the CIO, CEO and CFO to have a clear understanding of what the software packages do, how they work together and how to use them.

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SaaS is Faster and More Responsive than Traditional App Creation

December 3, 2008

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables companies to establish services and applications far more quickly than in the past, says Stephane Dubois, the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Xignite. Until a couple of years ago, SaaS was driven by the IT departments. Now, Dubois says, the business side is more aware of the potential of these emerging platforms and is pushing for their use.