PALO ALTO, Calif. and WALLDORF, Germany - April 07, 2009 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of enhancements to the SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, its comprehensive business intelligence (BI) software for small businesses and midsize companies. Now midmarket companies will be able to use SAP BusinessObjects Polestar software, a guided data navigation application that helps any business user to easily explore information and quickly answer important business questions via simple search. Read More…

BROOMFIELD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TruEffect, a provider of relationship advertising solutions, today announced a partnership with Webtrends, a leading provider of web analytics and online marketing solutions. Through this partnership, TruEffect and Webtrends will offer advertisers a synchronized view of consumer interactions on their website and across their media buys, including the ability to act on the insights by turning every display ad into a one-to-one consumer engagement.
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LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Webtrends, a global analytics leader with world class data collection and analysis, today announced a new set of web services for Webtrends Open Exchange. These new web services remove the handcuffs from data that have traditionally been in-place for current day marketers. The Analytics industry is rapidly evolving and the need for deep integration of analytics data into corporate systems and data warehouses is critical to marketers. Webtrends Open Exchange recognizes the need for complete access to a customer’s information and is providing, at no additional cost, API access and user managed data collection and delivery capabilities. Webtrends customers are in full control of their managed data for the simple reason that it is theirs. Read More…

CHICAGO - April 7, 2009 - Alterian (LSE:ALN), the leading integrated marketing platform provider, announced today several success stories from newspapers organizations using G2 Discovery powered by Alterian. Available through partner Marketing G2, key organizations within the newspaper industry are leveraging G2 Discovery to create multi-channel campaigns and generate new revenue. Read More…

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - In today’s economic climate, organizations are being pushed to deliver results despite budget constraints and economic conditions. The latest benchmark research report, “Operational Business Intelligence,” announced by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), found that eighty-two percent (82%) of respondents are cutting budgets to some degree as a result of the recession. In light of the economic downturn, organizations are attempting to increase customer loyalty, and in so doing, reduce customer churn and defections at a time when the customer relationship may be the only source of revenue that can be counted on. The report reveals the operational business intelligence capabilities that top performing companies are acquiring to increase internal awareness and focus on operational processes and performance. Read More…

Fresh off the Pentaho Partner Summit, SQLstream, Pentaho and SQL Power announce a collaborative partnership to deliver actionable, affordable real-time business intelligence. This easily integrated solution will query, triage and analyze high volume data feeds such as Twitter, on the wire, then deliver it via sub-second updates into an executive business intelligence dashboard. SQLstream’s real-time analytics engine bridges the gap between operational business systems and the data warehouse. Pentaho is the world’s most widely deployed open source business intelligence suite and is based on the open source Mondrian OLAP server. SQL Power is the premier business intelligence and data migration consultancy in Canada, specializing in the implementation of cost effective BI solutions. Read More…

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clario Analytics, formerly Decision Intelligence, Inc., a Minnesota-based database-marketing solutions company, today announced that Benchmark Brands has implemented clario - Clario Analytics’ full-suite of on-demand services for improved database marketing - after a head-to-head comparison against an industry-leading statistical software provider. Read More…

Denver, Colorado - KnowledgeMiner Software in partnership with Intel and Microsoft has released a major new data mining application for the Mac called KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel. KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel takes advantage of multi-core processors thru the use of parallelization to achieve speeds more then 600 times faster then previously. Read More…

HOUSTON - April 8, 2009 - The Information Store (iStore) and CSC (NYSE: CSC) have signed an alliance agreement under which CSC will act as the prime systems integrator and consulting services provider for iStore’s PetroTrek® Digital Oilfield solution. The parties will team to make iStore’s PetroTrek Digital Oilfield solution available under CSC’s Petroleum Enterprise Intelligence offering. Read More…

PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 07, 2009 - Berkeley, California — Emanio, Inc. - a leading provider of Predictive Business Intelligence, Data Integration and EDI applications announced today the addition of Patrick Vonesh to its executive team spearheading the sales effort. Read More…