ParAccel Introduces Next Generation Analytic Database: ParAccel, Inc., today introduced version 2.0 of the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), the latest version of the company’s high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics. PADB 2.0 tackles the most complex business questions even faster by leveraging dozens of new features and enhancements, including patent-pending innovations in query optimization and SAN integration. PADB’s new Omne query optimizer enables previously unseen levels of performance and sophistication in addressing demanding analytic workloads. In addition, PADB 2.0 offers breakthroughs in enterprise readiness and operational continuity for business critical applications. Read More…

Scout Analytics Platform Aims to Drive Subscription Revenues for Online Services: Scout Analytics debuted its next-generation platform today to help online services maximize the lifetime value of subscribers. The first-ever subscription analytics platform enables online services across diverse markets to aggregate, analyze and act upon untapped revenue opportunities. Scout Analytics helps an online service monetize unlicensed service use, maintain customer loyalty and optimize recommendations for up-sell. In its first six months of service, Scout Analytics has been selected to optimize revenue from more than 150,000 subscribers across multiple verticals. Read More…

Oracle Launches Insurance Insight 6.0: Oracle Insurance (Oracle) has announced the availability of Insurance Insignt 6.0. Its an insurance specific data warehouse that leverages its business intelligence enterprise edition for dashboards and analytics. According to Oracle, the Insurance Insight 6.0 contains the transactional data warehouse model as well as the line-specific data mart structures. It is expected to enable insurance companies to conduct policy, claims and customer analysis. Read More…

Aegis Analytical’s Conference: “The Business Case for Manufacturing Intelligence”: Aegis Analytical Corp., the leading provider of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) software solutions, announced today that its annual user conference, Aegis Discover 2009, will be held Oct. 5-8 at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder, Colo. This year’s conference theme - Making the Business Case for Manufacturing Intelligence - will bring together Aegis’ partners, customers and prospects from leading life sciences companies. Companies such as Abbott Labs, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Genzyme and Merck Serono rely on Aegis’ Discoverant(R), an EMI solution, to realize additional returns on their process IT investments. They increase profits by improving process predictability, quality and yield and accelerating technology transfer using a proven approach to data access, aggregation, analytics and visibility. Read More…

Calabrio’s Performance Management Model Provides Customers Choice: Calabrio, Inc., a leading provider of workforce optimization and unified desktop software for IP-based contact centers, announced today that they are providing integration between the software components of the Calabrio One suite and third-party products that were designed for contact center and enterprise performance management reporting and analytics. Customers will be able to incorporate relevant metrics from Calabrio Workforce Management and Calabrio Compliance Recording and Quality Management software within the performance management and analytics reports of reporting partners, including Aceyus, Cisco, and Exony. Read More…

Aster Data Systems Announces Massively Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance: Aster Data Systems, a proven leader in high-performance database systems for data warehousing and analytics, today unveiled the first-ever massively parallel (MPP) data warehousing appliance starting at $50,000, fundamentally changing the economics of data warehousing by providing the industry’s most ‘compute rich’ appliance on a lower-cost architecture that is also cheaper to administer and operate. Read More…

Intel Capital Leads Series B Funding for Sense Networks: Sense Networks, Inc., provider of the world’s only real-time location analytics platform, today announced its Series B financing round led by Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization. “Intel Capital, with its global reach and depth of technology understanding, makes an ideal investor for us,” said Greg Skibiski, Founder and CEO of Sense Networks. “This funding will allow us to accelerate growth and capitalize on significant domestic and international market opportunities in the fast-moving location industry.” Read More…

WIND Telecom Enhances Business Intelligence with Netezza: Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced that leading Italian triple-play telecommunications provider, WIND Telecomicazioni SpA, has migrated its business intelligence (BI) analysis to Netezza’s leading data warehouse appliance platform. The move away from the previous technology was driven by WIND Telecom’s desire to significantly enhance performance while controlling costs. WIND Telecom is also evaluating Netezza for other data warehousing initiatives. Massimo Pistoni, Business Intelligence manager at WIND Telecom, explained, “As we approached 10 terabytes of data, we started to experience performance issues with the legacy systems, and decided to search for an alternative. We evaluated platforms such as those offered by IBM, Sybase, Teradata and Netezza and ultimately selected Netezza’s platform for its compelling price/performance ratio. The data was quickly migrated to the Netezza system, and we use Business Objects and SPSS Clementine to perform the analysis. We already have about 500 users who are accessing the new business intelligence system with great satisfaction.” Read More…

Motio, Vitria Deliver Unified Dashboard and OI Capabilities to IBM Cognos Users: Vitria Technology, Inc., today announced a partnership with Motio, Inc., that will enable IBM Cognos users to seamlessly integrate their Business Intelligence content along with other data sources into customizable and flexible dashboards generated by Vitria’s Operational Intelligence (OI) software. Together, Motio’s MotioADF and Vitria’s M3O Operations Book enable organizations with existing IBM Cognos 8 deployments to quickly surface powerful analytics by combining BI Content with other operational and business data sources into a single unified dashboard. Vitria’s M3O Suite delivers a powerful Operational Intelligence platform that analyzes business activities in real time and enables users to take action before opportunities have faded or problems have escalated. Read More…

NICE Scores in Datamonitor Report: NICE Systems, a leading global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract insight from interactions to drive performance, today announced that leading industry analyst firm Datamonitor recognized NICE’s worldwide leadership position in its 2009 contact center analytics market report “Decision Matrix: Selecting a Contact Center Analytics Vendor (Competitor Focus); Analytics and reporting as differentiators in a difficult economy.” NICE’s contact center analytics offering, which includes its performance management and interaction analytics solutions, achieved high scores for every category in the technical assessment section, coming in significantly ahead of its competitors, with consistent technical excellence. NICE also achieved top ratings for its significant market impact, high rating by customers, and has been placed in the highest ranked ’shortlist’ category. Read More…

Analog Devices Opts for MetricStream Solution for Managing Quality Issues: Analog Devices, a provider of semiconductors for signal processing applications, has selected MetricStream’s governance, risk, compliance and quality management software platform for managing customer quality issues and related workflow systems for the company. MetricStream has said that its software solution will support quality issue logging and routing, failure analysis, investigation workflows, corrective and preventive actions and action item tracking in a collaborative fashion involving users from various geographies and functions within Analog Devices. Read More…

Flurry Launches Channel Partner Program: Flurry, the leading cross-platform mobile application analytics provider, today announced the establishment of a channel partner program. The company’s partners are focused on driving implementation of Flurry’s award-winning analytics services within the rapidly growing mobile applications market. Inaugural companies joining Flurry’s Partner Program include Atimi, Five Mobile, and MobileCDN. Flurry’s Partner Program provides contracted software development firms the unparalleled ability to communicate performance and usage insights to their clients. With Flurry analytics data, development companies can monitor, identify and assess future development opportunities to grow a client’s mobile application business. Flurry offers channel partner revenue share possibilities, technical support and joint marketing. Read More…

Baseline Consulting and Broadstreet Data Announce Strategic Partnership: Baseline Consulting Group, one of the industry’s premier IT services firms, and Broadstreet Data, one of Canada’s leading data solutions consulting firms, today announced they are partnering to provide full lifecycle management consulting services for Data Governance, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehouse and Data Mart implementations within the Canadian provinces. The announcement was made at the MDM Summit, taking place in Toronto, Ontario. The combination of Baseline Consulting’s management consulting experience in the areas of Business Intelligence and Master Data Management and the implementation services offered by Broadstreet Data will enable organizations to assess their current business and technical environment, and architect, develop, and implement their required solutions. The benefit of the partnership to IT organizations is a complete service offering from assessments to architecture and design to implementation - from one vendor, under one contract, with Broadstreet Data. Read More…

Heartland Payment Systems Selects MicroStrategy for Enhanced Reporting: MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Heartland Payment Systems has selected MicroStrategy to enhance reporting and analysis capabilities for its customers. Heartland is the nation’s fifth largest payments processor, providing card processing, payroll, check management, and other payments solutions. “MicroStrategy will enable us to enhance the reporting and analytics we provide to our merchants, giving them greater insights into their businesses,” said Alan Sims, chief technology officer at Heartland. “After conducting an evaluation of numerous reporting and analysis products, we selected MicroStrategy because of its integrated platform, scalability for large volumes of data, and easy-to-use reporting capabilities for our diverse user population.” Read More…

‘Growing Pains’ Eased with ClickBase for AccountMate: AccountMate Software Corporation and ClickBase Corporation have partnered to offer clients tightly integrated Business Intelligence (BI) for more effective decision making with the ClickBase for AccountMate BI module. BI allows organizations to measure and monitor their performance with dashboards to track key metrics that support better business decisions. Reporting and analysis of information from across the organization is presented to employees to monitor results, recognize trends and identify inconsistencies. Effective BI ensures that people within an organization have the tools to enable them to focus on those measurements that are key to the success of their department, division or region. Read More…