Addresses Business Need for Rapid, Flexible and Low-Cost BI Solutions

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced its secure, flexible On-Demand BI Suite Subscription that removes critical barriers to BI adoption by giving the customer complete control over how the solution is deployed and managed—by Pentaho, by the customer, or by both. In addition, Pentaho announced the availability of an on-demand evaluation environment, allowing enterprises to easily test drive the Pentaho BI Suite with their own data without requiring any of their own hardware and personnel assets. To launch the new service, Pentaho Services is offering the 72-Hour Challenge where businesses provide Pentaho with their own data and Pentaho will have a full evaluation project up and running within 72 hours including key performance indicators and relevant dashboards. The solution will then remain online for three weeks during which time the customer can fully explore and expand the solution at their convenience...

Information Builders, the independent leader in operationalbusiness intelligence ( BI) systems, today announced that Dealer Services Corporation (DSC), a national inventory financing company for independent automobile dealers, is usingWebFOCUS RStat predictive analytics to make better loan decisions.
As America's largest independent inventory finance provider for used automobiles and other diversified products sold by independent and franchise dealers, it's extremely important for DSC to monitor dealer transactions and payment patterns - mostly to avoid overextending credit. DSC needed a solution to forecast each dealer's future financing needs and ability to pay off loans based on past behavior.
"One of the biggest benefits of implementing WebFOCUS RStat was that DSC saw the automotive downturn coming well in advance, giving managers time to adjust financial reserves, tighten lending standards, and scrutinize each dealer's inventory - minimizing risk both to our company and our customers," said Chris Brady, CIO, Dealer Services. "DSC is more profitable today because we knew how much revenue we expected to generate. Now, if DSC sees factors that will cause trouble in six months, we can take action immediately."...

IBM today announced that Texas A&M University used IBM supercomputing technology to carry out potentially life-saving tuberculosis research at a rate more than four times faster than was previously possible.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that causes nearly two million deaths per year, with an estimated one-third of the human population carrying a latent infection (1).
The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis are mutating to form various drug-resistant strains. Texas A&M researchers are sequencing the DNA of the mutated strains so they can be tested against different drugs. In a race against time, researchers must try to find drugs that are effective before the strains mutate again. With IBM supercomputing technology, they can sequence the DNA of a specific strain in hours instead of days...

AXIS, the fastest growing GSM and 3G operator in Indonesia, has successfully implemented the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, achieving its goal of a paper-less business environment with an effective knowledge management platform for all of its employees.

Using the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, AXIS deployed a unified infrastructure for creation, management and distribution of its documents, files, Web content and digital assets. This helped to increase employee productivity, reduce redundant efforts and improve communication consistency.

AXIS’ content management platform takes advantage of Oracle’s Enterprise Application Documents strategy to manage unstructured content and integrate it with multiple enterprise applications, enabling AXIS to streamline business processes and efficiently build content-rich business applications.

This project was successfully carried out by Oracle partner, iForce Consulting Indonesia, a leading business technology consultancy company in Indonesia...

Creativity Center Helps Transform Innovative Ideas into Solutions

QlikTech, a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced the launch of QlikView Labs on the premise that the most groundbreaking business solutions start with an idea that may seem unrelated or even unobtainable. With its history as a disruptor in the industry, QlikTech’s culture has been built on the proven track record that ideas often turn into innovations that can redefine a market...

Business-Driven IT Management Connects Technology, Business, and IT for Greater Business Value, IT Efficiency and Agility

Delivering the industry’s most comprehensive business-driven IT management capabilities, Oracle® Enterprise Manager 11g helps maximize business agility and productivity through an integrated approach to IT management....
 

Only half of IBM's survey of Insurance CEOs believe their enterprises are adequately prepared to handle a highly volatile, increasingly complex business environment according to a new report by IBM. Sixty-eight percent expect the level of complexity to grow significantly over the next five years, but just 53 percent believe they know how to deal with it successfully. Eighty-two percent of Insurance CEOs cited increased government regulation as a major source of uncertainty in the new economic environment...

The University of Arizona (UA) today announced it has selected the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite to provide 18,000 faculty and staff members with next-generation communications tools to greatly enhance collaboration on the campus, laying the groundwork for a new cloud-computing approach to higher education IT investment. The Microsoft Corp. online solution is an enterprise-class set of communication and collaboration software delivered as a service, organization-wide. In addition to updating the university’s numerous and antiquated e-mail and calendaring programs to one centralized system, employees will get 10 GB mailboxes and new features such as instant messaging, presence and online meetings with the ability to share their desktop, audio or video with other users on or off campus...

Stein Mart Inc. has selected a broad suite of Oracle® Retail merchandising and planning applications to support its strategy of delivering freshness in merchandise and improving profitability across its 267 department stores.

The implementation of Oracle Retail applications is part of a larger business transformation that Stein Mart is undertaking to improve margins and bolster overall performance..

Retailers of electronics and appliances in the U.S. are expected to grow sales of those products by $953 million in June, July and August, according to an analytics-based forecast produced by IBM.  The forecast represents a four percent increase compared with the same period last year.

The IBM forecast is produced using statistical and analytical software to evaluate both the long-term sales trend and seasonal peaks.  IBM consultants use these predictive techniques to help clients improve performance by addressing complex issues of supply and demand.  These techniques also aid clients in planning product mix, new store locations, staffing and advertising spend...