Greenplum Announces Data Warehouse Solution on EMC CLARiiON: San Mateo, CA Rogue Wave Software, Inc., a Battery Ventures portfolio company, today announced that it has acquired Visual Numerics, Inc., a privately held advanced analytics software company based in Houston, Texas. For more than three decades, Visual Numerics has provided numerical analysis and visualization software solutions that help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. The company offers two product lines: the IMSL Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE visual data analysis development environment. This acquisition complements the Rogue Wave product families of software development tools, components and frameworks by adding industry-leading advanced data analysis and visualization tools. According to IDC the market for advanced analytics tools grew 13% in 2007 and usage is expected to become much more pervasive. Read More…

ClickFox Announces Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) Solutions: ClickFox, the pioneering leader of Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) software and solutions, today announced three new business solutions: CEA for Operational Efficiency, CEA for Customer Satisfaction, and CEA for Customer Retention. The company developed the solutions to address the growing imperative of strategically managing customer experience as an integrated, cross-channel core competency in order to meet today’s critical challenges of carving out operational costs while at the same time shoring up customer satisfaction and retention. Read More…

Oracle Introduces Oracle Project Analytics: To help organizations gain greater insight into project performance, Oracle today introduced Oracle Project Analytics, a new component of the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications, which monitors key project performance metrics and enables users to control project costs and improve project performance and profitability.Oracle Project Analytics is one of two applications newly introduced with the general availability of Oracle BI Applications Release 7.9.6, also announced today. Read More…

Indiana School District Hikes Achievement With Tools From Pearson: County Community School Corporation, a rural Indiana school district, has worked hard to meet the educational needs of its diverse student body. Key to paving the path to academic success has been an emphasis on managing and analyzing data. Today, district leaders are focused on working “smarter, not harder,” using data to take student achievement to the next level. Last year, this district of more than 6,000 students at 11 schools adopted Pearson Inform™, powerful data analysis and decision support tool for K-12 districts. In the past, teachers and administrators at Huntington County Community School Corporation collected plenty of student data, but finding what they needed often resembled finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. “We had data stored all over the place, and people had difficulty searching because they didn’t have a whole lot of time,” said Chuck Grable, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction. Read More…

MicroStrategy Announces First Quarter 2009 Financial Results: MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 (the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year). First quarter 2009 revenues were $80.2 million versus $85.9 million for the first quarter of 2008. Product licenses revenues for the first quarter of 2009 were $17.0 million versus $22.1 million for the first quarter of 2008. Product support and other services revenues for MicroStrategy’s core business intelligence (BI) business in the first quarter of 2009 were $60.6 million versus $61.4 million for the first quarter of 2008. Read More…

SAS Unveils Latest Version of Web Analytics: SAS, a provider of business analytics software and services, has released the latest version of SAS Web Analytics, which helps companies to automatically turn raw Web data into valuable business information. According to SAS (News -Alert), the new version of Web Analytics forecasts Web data as well as integrates and analyzes online and offline Website data. The application will offer additional context for marketers that are seeking to understand how the Web channel is impacted by other areas of their business. Read More…

Workday Extends Built-In Business Intelligence: Workday, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class SaaS-based Human Resources (HR) and Financial solutions, today detailed new additions to the built-in business intelligence capabilities included with all Workday solutions. Workday’s new contextual reporting capabilities are delivered as a direct component of the system of record, allowing users to create reports on the fly from anywhere within the application. Workday can automatically aggregate information and create a report based on where the user is within the system and the data they’re reviewing at that time. Read More…

Kalido Broadens Data Governance Solution with Data Matching: Kalido today announced that the latest release of the Kalido Information Engine now includes significant data matching capabilities for broader support of governance programs. The new release also includes enhanced functionality for the enablement of best practices for the design, development and deployment of the Kalido Information Engine. With this new release, Kalido has improved its already substantial native data governance capabilities with the addition of automated data matching capabilities that will help ease a significant manual and administrative burden for data stewards across the enterprise. Read More…

Syncfusion Announces Essential Studio 2009 Volume 2: Syncfusion, Inc., a leading provider of Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Back Office, and Silverlight components, announces its latest release: Essential Studio 2009 Volume 2, which includes a new suite of Business Intelligence and ASP.NET MVC components. Stefan Hoenig, CEO of Syncfusion, says, “Our suite of ASP.NET MVC components is one of the first ASP.NET MVC Studios. This truly enables developers to harness the power and flexibility of Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Framework. We not only wrote those components from scratch, we rewrote our own Web site using this new platform. We look forward to innovating alongside our customers.” Essential Studio 2009 Volume 2 is the sixth major version of Syncfusion Essential Studio to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. It includes major updates to each of the suites–WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, BackOffice, and Silverlight Editions. Read More…

AmberLeaf and Birst Partner to Provide Clients with Analytics: AmberLeaf, the leader in sales, service, and marketing optimization, and Birst, a leading provider of on-demand solutions for business intelligence (BI) and analytics, today announced that they are joining forces to help clients quickly improve sales, marketing, and customer service effectiveness. The new partnership will combine AmberLeaf’s extensive strategic expertise and technical experience with Birst’s powerful, affordable BI solution, and will help businesses increase customer satisfaction while lowering costs. Read More…

Eneco Achieves Cost Containment Goals with IBM Cognos: Energy company Eneco, based in The Netherlands, recently completed a detailed evaluation of BI quality assurance software for IBM Cognos and selected the MotioCI quality management software from Motio Inc. This software substantially contributes to the new, higher service levels towards completeness, timeliness and performance of the BI reports at Eneco. But more important is that Eneco saves 15% on the maintenance budget for their IBM Cognos environment every year and can thus achieve the cost containment targets set by the management with the MotioCI ROI in months, not years.Read More…

Advanced Analytics From Conduit Helps Web Publishers: Conduit, a leading provider of website syndication solutions, today announced the availability of advanced analytics as part of its complete marketing solution. More than 180,000 web publishers will now be able to analyze and optimize their community toolbars with easy-to-use reports that include vital statistics such as activity trends among active users, installations by geography, and component usage and popularity. Read More…

Noetix Introduces Noetix Generator 2.0 for Oracle Business Intelligence: Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence (BI) content from enterprise applications, today introduced Noetix Generator 2.0 for Oracle Business Intelligence, making it faster and easier to roll out reporting to Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBI EE) and Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One end users. This new version of Noetix Generator for Oracle BI is now integrated with NoetixAnswers, pre-built reports that answer hundreds of common business questions ‘out-of-the-box’ without the need to map data locations or write SQL code. Read More…

Attensity Group Rolls Up Trio of Companies: Three business intelligence and information management companies, Attensity Corporation, Empolis GmbH, and Living-e AG, today announced they have united to form the Attensity Group to deliver business user applications that generate value from unstructured data. The company offers a comprehensive family of applications built upon deep expertise in semantic language technologies. Read More…

Minnesota Department of Education Chooses Information Builders: Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI), today announced that the Minnesota Department of Education selected Information Builders technology to build its longitudinal data systems required by The No Child Left Behind Act. The State chose Information Builders after a thorough, competitive search based on its combined BI and extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities. Read More…