Apollo Data Technologies Launches Automated Predictive Analytics: Apollo Data Technologies, a leader in predictive analytics, has developed a groundbreaking portfolio of web-based healthcare software solutions that turn the arduous process of analyzing patient, clinical, and financial data for billing inaccuracies into a streamlined, proactive and profitable system. The new software automates the detection of missing charges, sniffs out underpayments, and continually flags claims that can increase revenue for cash-strapped hospitals. Based on proven, predictive analytics technology developed for Fortune 100 companies, the Apollo Data Technologies automated solutions increase provider profitability by turning data into a revenue-generating, time-saving resource that can yield hospitals and health systems a net revenue increase of 1 to 2 percent on average. Read More

Skandinavisk Data Center Purchases Teradata Active Data Warehouse: Teradata Corporation, the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced that Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) purchased a Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse platform for its banking data center in Denmark. The data center supports more than 140 financial institutions in Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Read More..

Acxius Strategic Consulting and Aster Data Systems Partner: Acxius Strategic Consulting, a management consulting and systems integration company today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Aster Data Systems, a proven leader in high-performance database systems for data warehousing and analytics. The two companies will leverage this partnership to target “big data” analytic solutions for customers in the insurance, financial services, healthcare and other industry verticals. Acxius will offer the Aster nCluster database to work in conjunction with Acxius clients’ existing data integration products, to enable their joint customers to rapidly collect and analyze high volumes of data for deep analysis and reporting. Acxius’ Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Mart Services have helped customers in this effort by creating high-performance and scalable data warehousing solutions to achieve their enterprise decision management (EDM) goals, thus taking their business to the next level in the process. Read More…

Biz IT Pro Expands Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Competencies: Business IT Professionals, Inc. (Biz IT Pro), a North Carolina-based customer relationship management solution provider, has announced that the firm has added competencies in Business Intelligence and Data Management to their Microsoft Gold Certified Partnership. Business Intelligence partners are fully equipped to help customers leverage the data they’re already collecting to build more-effective business strategies. For customers, accurate business intelligence often equals a competitive advantage, which is why robust business-intelligence solutions are always in demand. Read More…

Washington Trust Commences Second Phase of BI Platform Rollout: Washington Trust Wealth Management and UNAPEN, Inc. are pleased to announce the second phase of an enterprise rollout of UNAPEN’s CLIENTLOGIX CRM and Business Intelligence platform. Washington Trust’s Wealth Management division chose UNAPEN’s flagship CLIENTLOGIX platform in late 2007 to integrate all of its sales and client service activities across its four wealth management divisions: Washington Trust Investors (WTI), 1800 Asset Management (1800), Weston Financial Group, Inc. (Weston) and Trust & Estate Services. The first phase of the system went live at 1800, WTI and Trust & Estate Services in the spring of 2008. Read More…

Experian Portfolio Management Identifies Risks for Small-Business: Experian, a global information services company, today announced the launch of three highly predictive credit scores that enable members of its Small Business Credit Share program to quickly identify financial accounts that are most likely to become delinquent. Powered by Experian’s extensive business data and advanced analytics capabilities, the new portfolio risk scores help clients reduce costs and maximize revenue by allowing them to address accounts that could pose future business risks. Read More…

Knoa Drives Resolution of Application, End-User Performance Issues: Knoa Software, the leading provider of end-user experience and performance management software, today announced significant enhancements to its family of Experience and Performance Management solutions for corporate software applications. Available today, Version 5.5 of Knoa Experience and Performance Manager (EPM) provides total monitoring coverage of end-user behavior and experience across enterprise applications, such as SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft Enterprise Suite, Amdocs, as well as other major application vendors and custom applications. Knoa EPM monitors application execution at the end-user level, and provides precise metrics about the user experience as well as measurements on how effectively people execute when working with enterprise applications. Knoa provides the most accurate metrics possible on the actual application performance experienced by real end-users and an unprecedented level of visibility into end-user performance with the application. Read More…

Quantivo and Webtrends Announce Partnership: Quantivo, the leader in on-demand behavioral analytics, and Webtrends, a global provider of world-class data collection and analysis, today announced a new partnership that will enable Webtrends customers to quickly gain deep insights into the online behaviors of their site visitors. Through this partnership, joint customers can effortlessly extend their existing Webtrends Analytics with Quantivo’s market-leading on-demand behavioral analytics to better understand, segment, and convert web traffic into revenue dollars.Read More…

Otto International Upgrades With Hyperion Applications to Pentaho BI: BrainChild, a leading IT services provider and Pentaho Gold Reseller and Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that Otto International, a leading B2B services company, has finished replacing legacy Hyperion applications and manual data integration jobs with Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition. The project was managed by BrainChild in Hong Kong, with both the migration and new features delivered in only four months. OTTO International (OI) is a service company with decades of experience in purchasing and procurement. The worldwide OI network comprises a total of 26 locations, offering B2B clients the full process chain, from purchasing and retail-based services such as transport logistics, financial services and product design through to quality control. Read More…

Cincom’s BI Module Allows Quick Performance Evaluation: CINCOM has released a new Business Intelligence module to support real-time analytical reporting for its Enterprise Compliance and Quality Management suite. Cincom says the Compliance and Quality Business Intelligence module enables users to drill down into underlying data generated by the operational Cincom ECQM applications and other supporting external systems. Cincom claims the Business Intelligence module allows data to be analysed, reported and exported efficiently, so as to improve compliance and profitability. Users can quickly evaluate enterprise-wide quality performance by accessing key metrics and compliance key performance indicators. Read More…

SAS Still Tops in Operational Risk Management Report: For the fifth consecutive year, SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, continued its reign as the leader by Chartis Research in its Operational Risk Management Systems 2009 report. Since 2005, Chartis has positioned SAS OpRisk Management in the top spot for “completeness of offering” and “market share potential.” Chartis forecasts the worldwide operational risk management (ORM) market to grow to US$1.68 billion by 2013. The Chartis report looks at both the demand and supply sides of the market and covers the main market and regulatory requirements as well as the competitive landscape. The evaluation examined a vendor’s core functionality, data management capability, vendor characteristics, implementation process, user friendliness, complexity, customizability/flexibility and costs. Read More…

NWP Services Introduces BI Data Warehouse for Utility Management: NWP Services Corporation (NWP), the leading provider of financial transaction processing solutions for the multifamily housing industry, today introduced a new Business Intelligence Data Warehouse, called ConsumptionSmart, now available as a value-added feature of the company’s award-winning UtilityPay Manager product offering. Read More…

Kickfire, Sun and Kimball Group to Deliver Data Warehousing Webinars: Kickfire, Inc., innovator of the first high-performance analytic appliance for the mass market, today announced a new series of webinars for the data warehousing mass market, co-presented with Sun Microsystems and the Kimball Group, the definitive source for dimensional data warehousing expertise. The data warehousing mass market is comprised of deployments in the gigabytes to low terabytes which, according to an IDC/ComputerWorld survey, represent over three-quarters of the total market. The webinar series will begin on June 25th at 1:00 pm PDT and will introduce the audience to data warehousing concepts and best practices. More specifically, the series will cover the history and evolution of data warehousing; will provide an overview of dimensional modeling; and review the full life cycle of designing and implementing a data warehouse. To register for this webinar, go to http://tinyurl.com/kgwebinar. Read More…

IDC: Info, Data Management Software in Asia Grows 8 Percent: The Information and Data Management Software (IDMS) market in Asia Pacific continued to grow 8.02 percent year-on-year in 2008 to an estimated US$2,107.99 million, said IDC Wednesday. The IDMS market includes RDBMS, and non-relational databases management systems as well as data integration and database tools, according to the research firm. The market grew on the back of maintenance revenue stream, and on-going implementations and other projects that were approved pre-crisis. This includes those that were pulled through by application deployments and data warehouse implementations, IDC noted. Read More…

BIReady Releases Version 4: BIReady is executing the next phase of the global roll-out of its standardized data warehouse automation solution. The mass market introduction of this business intelligence automation software is triggered by the successful implementations of the BIReady product. Following a two year evaluation period starting in 2005, the tried and tested application has been installed at the heart of the business intelligence applications of a number of customers; organizations in various industries - including health care, insurance, government and durable consumer goods - acknowledge the benefits flagged by domain experts and industry analysts. Read More…