The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for April 7

April 7, 2009

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The Latest News From The IT-Finance Connection
QlikTech Channel-focused Business Model Fuels Company Growth
Optaumum Launches: New Marketing and Data Analytics Consultancy
Cloud Analytics on Steroids
Enterprise Analytics Provides “One Version of the Truth”
AristaCare Health Services to Install Management and BI Software from ABS
Amazon Elastic MapReduce in Beta Released
Sybase IQ 15 Analytics Announces Results for Data Warehousing
Kelkoo Turns Data Into Actionable Intelligence with Kognitio WX
Corda Technologies and Primescape Announce Mid-Atlantic Corda Users Group
HP Takes Data Management to New Heights
Star Analytics Unveils the Star Finance Command Center
Innovation Group Launches Innovation Insurer
InetSoft Extends Solution to Salesforce.com Users
DecipherTech Wins Salesforce.com Cert; Supercharges CRM
Austin Logistics Announces New Name, “ALI Solutions”

QlikTech Channel-focused Business Model Fuels Company Growth

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AUSTIN, Texas & IRVINE, Calif., Apr 01, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) April 6, 2009 — QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company, today announced 25% growth of its partner network at Qonnections 2009, the company’s annual Global Partner Summit. More than 400 partners from around the world are gathered in Barcelona at the sold-out, filled-to-capacity event to share best practices for sales and support of the QlikView business analytics product. Read More…

Optaumum Launches: New Marketing and Data Analytics Consultancy

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Two leading marketing analysts have launched Optaumum LLP - a new marketing and data analytics consultancy with a focus on the interaction of digital advertising with traditional forms of marketing communication.  The pair recently stepped down as Managing Partners at ohal, Europe’s top marketing response consultants, to form the new independent partnership. The business will offer a wide range of high quality analytical services, with a clear focus on digital and customer marketing, geared to answering the key accountability questions facing marketers today. Read More…

Cloud Analytics on Steroids: youcalc Apps for Salesforce.com and iGoogle

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MENLO PARK, CA–(Marketwire - April 2, 2009) - youcalc, a provider of on-demand analytics apps for online marketing and on-demand CRM, today announced a series of analytics apps that significantly reduce the time it takes analysts and admins to analyze sales force and call center activities. “The term ‘analytics’ is used so loosely in the cloud communities that their popular definition an be confused with simple reporting,” said Rasmus Madsen, CEO of youcalc. “But thousands of Salesforce.com users have already discovered what a set of enterprise-class analytics apps can do for them, and they will never go back to the query-based reporting alternatives available on AppExchange.” Read More..

Enterprise Analytics Provides “One Version of the Truth”

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EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hospital executives now have the ability to align their entire organization, including multiple facilities, around key performance metrics and transparently distribute “one version of the truth” to all decision makers with Enterprise Analytics, introduced by MedeAnalytics, a leading healthcare performance analytics company. Enterprise Analytics provides interactive balanced scorecards with drill-down capabilities to measure and proactively monitor clinical, operational and financial performance. Leveraging a web-based platform automatically updated with new information on a daily basis, Enterprise Analytics enables hospital executives to make more informed decisions while providing accountability and alignment across the organization. Read More…

AristaCare Health Services to Install Management, BI Software from ABS

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NEW JERSEY & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ARISTACARE HEALTH SERVICES and ABS SYSTEMS are pleased to announce that AristaCare will deploy ABS System’s state-of-the-art quality and performance management system - CareMetrics - specifically designed for the long-term care (LTC) market. AristaCare will use CareMetrics to complement its current quality and performance management initiatives to provide the highest level of patient quality care and patient satisfaction in its long term care homes. CareMetrics will allow AristaCare to monitor hundreds of quality, staffing, operational and financial indicators in real-time or nearly real-time to optimize the patient experience in each of their centers, while providing the latest medical and rehabilitative technology available today. As AristaCare grows, CareMetrics will help to ensure that each of its centers adheres to the same high standards in all facets of operating a care facility. Read More…

Amazon Elastic MapReduce in Beta Released

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) announced on Wednesday via its customer newsletter it is now offering the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables users to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon Elastic MapReduce uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Simple Storage Service. Read More…

Sybase IQ 15 Analytics Announces Results for Data Warehousing

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DUBLIN, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sybase, Inc., the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced that Sybase IQ 15, combined with Sun Microsystems’ Sun Fire X4540 storage server and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), recorded the best price/performance result in the TPC-H benchmark at 3000 GB scale factor for all non-clustered systems. This benchmark simulates decision support systems that analyze large volumes of data, executes queries with a high degree of complexity, and gives answers to critical business questions. The outcome of this testing further illustrates the effectiveness of Sybase IQ 15 in helping to optimize IT asset utilization and significantly reduce ownership costs. Read More…

Kelkoo Turns Data Into Actionable Intel with Kognitio WX2 Via DaaS

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BRACKNELL,United Kingdom,April 2 /PRNewswire/ — Kognitio, a leading global provider of business intelligence and data warehousing solutions, has announced that the company has built and is managing a 1.5TB data warehouse for Kelkoo via Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS). Kognitio is complementing its DaaS service with ongoing consultancy in order to help Kelkoo maximize the use and exploitation of information within its business. Founded in 2000, Kelkoo isEurope’s largest e-commerce website after Amazon and Ebay, and the largest e-commerce advertising and price comparison platform inEurope. Read More…

Corda, Primescape Announce Mid-Atlantic Corda Users Group
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (Marketwire) — 04/02/09 — Corda Technologies (www.corda.com/) and Primescape Solutions, Inc. (www.primescape.net/) announced the formation of a users group focused on Corda Technologies products and services for the Washington, DC area. Primescape, based in Arlington, VA, is experienced across business intelligence technologies including data warehousing, data mining, reporting and analytics, focused on federal government clients. Corda Technologies was founded in 1996 and is a leader in data visualization and performance dashboard software. Read More…

HP Takes Data Management to New Heights

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PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced it has achieved significant milestones in its enterprise data warehouse, making it the larghpest of its kind in the world and one that serves as an example of the business intelligence possible with today’s technology. More than 35,000 HP employees are currently using the enterprise data warehouse, an electronic repository that enables users to load, store, retrieve, analyze and manage company information. The system, an implementation of the company’s HP Neoview commercial offering, executes more than 300,000 quarterly business queries with the capability to more than triple in usage. Read More…

Star Analytics Unveils the Star Finance Command Center

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SAN MATEO, Calif., April 7, 2009 - Star Analytics, the leader in Financial Data  management software for consolidation, planning, budgeting, reporting and analysis, today announced the immediate availability of the Star Analytics Finance Command Center, the first centrally-controlled, secure enterprise software solution that monitors and automates the workflow of finance systems for non-technical finance users. The Star Finance Command Center represents the next generation of software that boosts operational efficiencies and accelerates business decisions by
improving the management, reliability and visibility of finance processes. Read More…

Innovation Group Launches Innovation Insurer

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NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–www.us.innovation-group.com-Innovation Group (Innovation), the leading provider of enterprise software and Auto and Property network management solutions to the global Property & Casualty industry today is pleased to announce the release of the next generation insurance processing platform-Innovation Insurer (Insurer). Critical input from key customers, business partners, and industry analysts was provided during the multi-year research and development effort behind Insurer. Read More…

InetSoft Extends Solution to Salesforce.com Users

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Piscataway, NJ, Apr 06, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) –InetSoft Technology (http://www.inetsoft.com), an innovator in dashboard, reporting and analysis inetsoftsolutions, today announced the launch of a customer service-focused dashboard solution on the Force.com AppExchange from salesforce.com. InetSoft’s Style Intelligence for Salesforce now provides a concise, single-screen dashboard for monitoring several key performance indicators plus the ability to customize views, perform further analysis and drill through to details. The company becomes the first to offer an AppExchange solution for fundamental case handling performance management for customer service operations. Read More…

DecipherTech Wins Salesforce.com Cert; Supercharges CRM

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Smyrna, GA, April 06, 2009 –(PR.com)– DecipherTech, Inc., an expert in CRM Business Intelligence (BI) since 2004, launched Decipher for Salesforce, a Software as a Service (SaaS) BI solution in the Fall of 2008. Decipher gives small and medium sized businesses unparalleled insight into their sales pipeline and sales performance. Gaining certification from Salesforce.com establishes Decipher as a trusted Salesforce.com partner and streamlines the adoption and use of Decipher for Salesforce CRM customers through the seamless integration of Decipher and Salesforce. Read More…

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