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 ha anunciado hoy que Dealer Services Corporation (DSC), una compañía de financiación para concesionarios de automóviles independientes, está utilizando los análisis predictivos de WebFOCUS rstat para tomar mejores decisiones sobre préstamos.

Como mayor proveedor financiero independiente de Estados Unidos para vehículos usados y otros productos vendidos por distribuidores independientes y franquicias, es extremadamente importante para DSC supervisar los movimientos de los concesionarios y los patrones de pago, sobre todo para evitar la extensión excesiva de crédito. DSC necesitaba una solución para prever las necesidades futuras de financiación de cada distribuidor y su capacidad para pagar los préstamos basados en el comportamiento pasado...

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...

QlikTech, il fornitore leader di software per business intelligence, ha annunciato oggi il lancio di QlikView Laboratorio, creato con la premessa che le soluzioni di business più innovative inizia con un'idea che può sembrare estranei al business, o essere impossibile raggiungere. Con l'esperienza come un perturbatore industria, cultura QlikTech si basa su fatti storici che dimostrano che troppo spesso trasforma le idee in innovazioni in grado di ridefinire un mercato.