IBM Ushers In Era Of Stream Computing: At its annual investor briefing today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the availability of its unique “stream computing” software that enables massive amounts of data to be analyzed in real time, delivering extremely fast, accurate insights to enable smarter business decision-making. The new software is called IBM System S. IBM also announced today the opening of the IBM European Stream Computing Center, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that will serve as a hub of research, customer support and advanced testing for what is expected to be a growing base of European clients who wish to apply stream computing to their most challenging business problems. Read More…

Commercial Real Estate Market Using SRC’s Geographic Business Intelligence: SRC, LLC, the leader in providing Geographic Business Intelligence solutions, today announced a customer lineup that now includes the majority of players in the real estate analytics industry. SRC attributes its growing dominance in the commercial real estate space to recent attention SRC’s long-time clients have received in successfully attacking pain points of a down economy. SRC is announcing several exciting developments with clients Jones Lang LaSalle, Marcus & Millichap, Catylist, Chain Store Guide, and Weingarten at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon event, the Global Retail Real Estate Convention, May 17-20 in Las Vegas. Read More…

Thunderhead Introduces Analytics & Collaboration Tools: Thunderhead, the leading innovator of document automation and multi-channel communications solutions, today announced the release of Thunderhead NOW 5.0, the next version of its award-winning customer communications platform. In 2003, Thunderhead redefined the document generation market with the introduction of its Thunderhead NOW enterprise communications platform.  Thunderhead’s open, standards-based technology puts business users, not IT professionals, in control of creating and maintaining customer communications and anticipated customer demand for electronic channels, including email, SMS and even even industry-standard XML formats such as DTCC Deriv/SERV and ACORD XML. Read More…

Winn-Dixie Ramps Up with Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse: Teradata Corp., a company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, announced that Winn-Dixie Stores, a supermarket chain in the American southeast with 520 outlets, has expanded its Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) capacity in order to satisfy increasing analytic demand from its corporate and retail user base. Specifically, the expanded capacity will support the growing requirements for critical analysis and reporting across the company’s merchandising, supply chain, and marketing departments. As it expands the breadth and reach of its database user community, Winn-Dixie is planning to add additional subject matter areas to its EDW. Read More…

New Internet Marketing Firm ROI Analytics Helps Businesses Measure ROI: Most companies have a difficult time establishing the return on investment from Internet marketing. Without the ability to track website traffic and identify missed opportunities, companies cannot accurately adapt their product or business, which turns expanding an Internet marketing campaign into a challenging task. The range of applications, trainings and services developed by new Internet marketing firm ROI Analytics allows business owners to gauge return on investment down to the dollar. Developed specifically for business owners and anyone else conducting marketing via the Internet, ROIanalytics Pro helps to determine ROI and adds value to Internet marketing programs. Read More…

CAST Announces Premier Partnership with David Consulting Group: CAST, the worldwide leader in Automated Application Intelligence, today announced the signing of a new channel partner, David Consulting Group, and the continued expansion of CAST’s presence in the North American market. The CAST program combines the company’s enterprise-class solutions with partners’ expertise in building quality into business software in order to reduce business risk. David Consulting Group is a leader in the area of software process performance analysis and measurement. DCG has created solutions designed to enhance client competitiveness through improvements to the productivity, performance and quality of their software practices and IT delivery. At the core of DCG’s success is the ability to identify its clients’ business and technical objectives and to map their goals to a series of core metrics that quantitatively measure performance based on those goals and objectives. Read More…

CSC Unveils ‘Insurance Optics’ Suite for Insurers: CSC today introduced Insurance Optics, a family of business intelligence and financial risk solutions for insurance companies. Coupling insurance industry expertise with proven tools, CSC’s new offerings enable users to access complex data from multiple systems to more accurately predict changes in their businesses, track key metrics with customized reports and graphical dashboards, and proactively respond to rapidly changing conditions. The first solution, CSC’s Financial Risk Intelligence, combines CSC’s insurance domain expertise, insurance data management and consulting experience, and a new proprietary insurance industry data model with a leading financial risk modeling solution for life and annuity companies. Financial Risk Intelligence provides carriers with the integrated information infrastructure and analytical capabilities required to gain fact-based insight into their current enterprise financial risk position. This insight can help reduce reserves and drive operational performance improvements. Read More…

CFOs and Finance Departments Turn to QlikView: QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company, today announced that it will offer a free online benchmarking tool to allow CFOs and their staffs to compare their company’s financial performance with 60,000 peers in industries around the world across nearly two dozen financial metrics. The company made this global offer, valued at US$1,000 to illustrate how its solution is being leveraged by CFO’s to better manage their business and seize opportunities during this economic downturn. Interested executives can register to use the online benchmarking tool and create their own scorecard with data refreshed weekly at http://www.qlikview.com/financial-scorecard. Read More…

The BeyeNETWORK Offers Web Seminar on Interactive Information Strategies: BOULDER, CO–(Marketwire - May 18, 2009) - The BeyeNETWORK is hosting a web seminar that will help you develop an interactive information strategy to engage your customers. This free event will take place on June 4 at 12p.m. ET/ 9a.m. PT. With the advent of Web 2.0, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive and intuitive. Popular websites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set high user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and dynamic. Read More…

Dell Support of SAP Business Objects Would Help Manage Business Insight: Dell today announced that through collaboration with SAP AG it plans to help make business intelligence (BI) more accessible and easier to deploy. Dell intends to provide customers with standards-based BI solutions on some of the industry’s fastest and most power-efficient servers that will increase enterprise efficiency and give business users immediate access to business-critical information. Read More…

Catylist Begins Using SRC Geographic Business Intelligence Analytics: SRC, LLC, the leader delivering complete Geographic Business Intelligence solutions, and Catylist Inc., the country’s leading provider of marketing-based commercial information exchange technology for commercial real estate communities and brokerage firms, today jointly announced the expanded provision of advanced SRC demographic and market analyses to enhance brokers’ abilities to search for and list available Catylist properties by these site-selection criteria. The announcement was made at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon event, the Global Retail Real Estate Convention, May 17-20 in Las Vegas. Read More…

The Swiss Colony Deploys Pentaho Business Intelligence: Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that The Swiss Colony, one of the world’s most successful mail-order catalog and online merchandising companies, has deployed Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition. The Swiss Colony is using Pentaho to integrate massive amounts of clickstream data and web analytics to provide its marketing department greater visibility into valuable business metrics such as keyword optimization and ad spending. By marrying this information with traditional catalog sales activity data, The Swiss Colony now has a more complete view of its customers and is thus better equipped to serve their needs. Read More…

Price Chopper Selects the ParAccel Analytic Database: ParAccel, Inc., EMC Velocity2 partner and provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics, today announced that Price Chopper, a Golub Corporation company and leading regional grocer with more than 100 outlets, has selected the ParAccel Analytic Database as its next-generation data warehouse platform. Read More…

Predictive Analysis: Capitalize on Your Data: World Organization of Webmasters (WOW), a not-for-profit professional association, announces the launch of the PredictiveAnalytics.org website. The website offers downloadable audio and video interviews of experts in the field of study. The site also offers education, training and solution provider resources for Predictive Analytics. “Attracting and retaining customers is the primary goal of any business, be it a major corporation or a small, at home enterprise. There exists one of these processes that can analyze buyers’ profiles, allowing marketers and managers to predict consumer preferences on an individual basis. It’s called Predictive Analytics” said Bill Cullifer, WOW Executive Director and PredictiveAnalytics.org Co-Chair. Read More…

PetrisWINDS Introduces OneTouch for the Oil Industry: Petris Technology, Inc. has announced a new exploration and production (E&P) knowledge portal - PetrisWINDS OneTouch. OneTouch will help organizations and asset teams make decisions faster and more accurately by bringing all users and data together through a web based work space and data environment. OneTouch integrates the Microsoft Office SharePoint and ESRI geographic information system with the PetrisWINDS Enterprise framework, a Petris service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution which provides open, accessible and reliable information from any data source. Read More…