Automated Equity Finance Markets and Data Explorers Working Together: Automated Equity Finance Markets (AQS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quadriserv, Inc., today announced a new agreement under which its AQS securities lending marketplace will integrate with unique securities lending data and analysis products from Data Explorers (www.dataexplorers.com). Customers from both organizations will benefit from productivity tools that enhance securities lending portfolio management, including new market data and analytical capabilities. Read More…

Meeting Set on Gaining Visibility via Dashboard and Toolkits: Business Intelligence Collaborated is having its first event in Philadelphia. The organization connects IT professionals in the Greater Philadelphia/NY area. Mike Masciandaro, the former Director of Business Intelligence at Rohm and Haas will give a presentation, with a discussion to follow. Read More…

Panorama NovaView 6 Introduced: Panorama Software is proud to announce the release of Panorama NovaView 6! NovaView 6 adds the following improvements to the previous versions of NovaView:

– New Dashboard User Interface
– Streamlined installation and upgrade (new setup)
– More robust (through the inclusion of the latest fixes we accumulated into the server)

4 optional new products:

? NovaView Flash Analytics
? Relational Data Connector (will be available in RC2 in May)
? Executive Dashboard
? NovaView SharedViews

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SAS and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman to Train Analytics Experts: Reinforcing its commitment to share and develop expertise towards joint academic development, SAS Malaysia, the leader in business analytics software and services, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). The agreement facilitates innovative teaching and learning as well as the organisation and participation in joint academic-industrial collaborative activities. Read More…

HP Streamlines Finance Management with Offering: Realizing the need for IT divisions to efficiently manage their finances, global IT provider HP recently expanded its IT Financial Management suite to include HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), a solution for CIOs to “run IT like a business.” The new offering, HP said, combines a financial planning and analysis capability linked to a financial data model, consolidating financial information from project, asset and configuration management systems, as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Read More…

Avocado Increases Campus Safety with Security and BI Solutions: Avocado Security, the world’s pioneer of the On-Demand Security and BI Optimisation Platform, today announced that its Security + Business Intelligence (BI) Optimisation technology is strengthening campus safety measures for educational facilities looking to gain more analysis and insight from the images generated by their security cameras. Avocado Security’s new technology delivers BI with security images by taking the video images from surveillance cameras and translating them into intelligent, usable, business data and statistics. So now, instead of campus security personnel just seeing “dumb data” from numerous images across video monitors, they can actually have a solution that gives them “intelligent data” about those images so that actionable, real-time decisions can be made. Read More…

SPSS and Language Weaver Offer Translation Services on Demand: SPSS, the leading global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions, today announced that its Predictive Text Analytics customers now have access to translation services on demand through its partnership with Language Weaver. The software as a service (SaaS) delivery mechanism enables market researchers and organizations that gather survey feedback in many languages to receive cost-effective and precise high-speed translation capabilities. PASW Text Analytics 13 (formerly Text Mining for Clementine) and PASW Text Analysis for Surveys 3 is now fully integrated with Language Weaver Translation on Demand so customers have robust translation of unstructured data sources - open-ended survey responses, call center notes, email and Web 2.0 media, such as blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networks. With the use of this service, customers can now obtain automated translation of unstructured data sources across 30 languages into common English in order to fully understand preferences, motivations and intentions on a global scale. Read More…

VisiStat Unveils Real-Time Web Analytics Live Lead Generation Tool: VisiStat, Inc. has announced the release of LeadCaster, their newest add-on module. LeadCaster, a real-time lead generation application, marks VisiStat as the first Web analytics service to offer live leads within an analytics environment. “The development of our LeadCaster technology successfully bridges the gap between sales and marketing. LeadCaster identifies the companies on your Website ‘right now,’ providing warm leads to sales organizations,” said Tina Bean, Director of Sales and Marketing for VisiStat, Inc. “Through our seamlessly integrated platform, LeadCaster can utilize all of VisiStat’s functionality, such as our powerful AdCaM advertising suite, to provide full visibility into the origins of lead sources unlike any other service out there.” Read More…

Infobright, Pentaho, Sun Partner: Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), have joined forces with Sun Microsystems to deliver a hardware and software solution that lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure. Read More…

Lacuna Strategic Marketing Signs Referral Agreement with PivotLink: Lacuna Strategic Marketing has entered into a referral agreement with leading Business Intelligence (BI) company Pivot Link Corporation. The move allows Lacuna to offer a complementary application that enhances its service offering as well as provides PivotLink with additional access to the Phoenix market. The move is a natural extension of one of Lacuna’s core service offerings- marketing intelligence and analysis. The web based PivotLink solution provides a world class business intelligence platform that will deploy at a fraction of the cost and in significantly less time then traditional business applications. This platform provides the necessary foundation for the analysis and reporting that Lacuna Strategic Marketing provides. Read More…

Tata Consultancy Services Launches BI Solution for Healthcare: Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, has launched Provider Performance Insight, a business intelligence (BI) solution built on SAP BusinessObjects software for hospitals and other healthcare providers. Using its proprietary BI framework, TCS has developed an out-of-the-box dashboard that will simplify projects, reduce costs and dramatically shorten time to value related to both hospital administration and patient care. Read More…

Fitch Solutions Teams with Portsmouth on U.S. RMBS Loan Level Analytics: Fitch Solutions and Portsmouth Financial Systems have partnered to launch Deal View, a desktop application that offers loan-level analytics for the U.S. structured finance market. The inaugural edition of Deal View will focus on the U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) sector. Deal View provides users with historical and current collateral data, prepayment and default modeling capabilities, loan-level analytics and scenario analysis for all major segments of the U.S. RMBS market, including Subprime, Alt-A, and Prime. Additional asset classes will be forthcoming. ‘The flexibility and speed with which a user can evaluate collateral level performance trends using Deal View provides for a more accurate assessment of the future risks within a bond and brings a new level of transparency to the structured finance market,’ said Gloria Aviotti, Group Managing Director and Head of Fitch Solutions. Read More…

3VR Unveils CrimeDex 2.0, a Collaborative Criminal Data-Sharing Service: 3VR Security, Inc., the searchable surveillance leader, today announced the release of CrimeDex 2.0, which incorporates several highly requested new features including a collaborative group interface, video and image support, and complete integration capabilities with the award-winning 3VR surveillance platform. Now delivering advanced social networking and information sharing capabilities to fraud and law enforcement professionals, CrimeDex 2.0 provides the unique ability to search a comprehensive Web-driven database of complete profiles of more than 14,000 criminal suspects, expedite investigations and securely share critical information to solve and prevent crime. Read More…

Theoriem Implements Xenomorph TimeScape: Theoriem, the multi-asset quantitative trading firm based in Philadelphia, has implemented Xenomorph TimeScape to provide a fast, flexible and easy-to-use means of managing and analysing large tick data sets. Xenomorph’s TimeScape data and analytics management platform enables tick data to be loaded, filtered for statistical outliers, sampled with missing rules, filtered again and fed to period analysis functions all in a single query which requires no coding. The easy-to-use interface and business oriented query language enable business users to retrieve the data quickly and analyse it using both out-of-the-box and in-house analytics functions. Read More…

Esselunga Consolidates Data with Netezza: Netezza Corporation, the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced that Italian superstore chain Esselunga S.p.A. has moved it enterprise data warehouse (EDW) platform to Netezza, consolidating its data and enhancing consistency when compiling statutory reports. Driven by a desire to improve the performance and control the costs associated with its analytics, Esselunga is using the Netezza data warehouse appliance for geo marketing, customer scoring according to frequency and spend, as well as interactive reporting. The IT manager for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence director at Esselunga explained, “We selected Netezza for its proven ability to outperform legacy systems and tailor analytics to our needs. The system came recommended by our trusted IT partner, ICare. Specialists in data warehousing and business intelligence (BI), ICare specified and supplied the complete solution. Because of the results we are seeing with Netezza, we have grown our data warehouse footprint with them.” Read More…