New Partnership Allows Customers to Easily Deliver WebFOCUS BI With 1010data's Hosted Enterprise Data Warehouse

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a new partnership with 1010data, providers of high-performance, hosted data warehouse solutions. This partnership links Information Builders' popularWebFOCUS analytics solutions to 1010data's namesake hosted database, improving customer analytics performance and lowering data warehousing costs.

 Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today reported that it granted equity awards under its 2006 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") to new employees of salesforce.com in connection with its previously announced acquisition of Jigsaw Data Corporation (“Jigsaw”). The Plan was adopted by the Board of Directors originally in May 2006 in accordance with New York Stock Exchange Rule 303A.08. 

Leading Analyst Documents Dramatic Cost Savings with Pentaho Open Source BI

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced a new analyst report by Mark Madsen, president of Third Nature, that shows how firms are saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars with open source BI. The report titled, Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence With Open Source, digs deep to answer the question whether commercial open source BI matters when it comes to lowering software license and support costs? How real are cost savings? How much does BI software and ongoing support actually cost? The report pulled real numbers from public sources and direct from the vendors revealing and comparing BI software and support costs for Pentaho, IBM (Cognos), MicroStrategy, Oracle and SAP (Business Objects). The report is available for download by visitingwww.pentaho.com/lower_bi_costs.

Leading healthcare provider delivers real-time decision support to 1,200 business and clinical users

QlikTech, a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced that ThedaCare, the largest healthcare provider and employer in Northeast Wisconsin, has gained actionable insights into disease management, patient flows and financial management using QlikView. The deployment to 1,200 business and clinical users strengthens ThedaCare’s commitment to employer plan purchasers and 225,000 patients served annually. As a data intensive business, the organization uses QlikView to analyze more than 110 million rows of data each day. ThedaCare recovered its entire investment in QlikView’s analytics software prior to completing its full rollout this spr

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced the availability of a new Pentaho plug-in bringing interactive analytics to Apple iPad business users. More than 1 million iPad's have already been sold in the U.S., and it is increasingly being adopted by demanding and mobile professionals world-wide.

Pentaho provide to these users an easy and intuitive way to create new analytical reports from scratch, as well as navigate and access existing business intelligence information from the iPad. The Pentaho plug-in for the iPad is available for download at www.pentaho.com/iPad..

MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of Business Intelligence software, today announced that Aristocrat Technologies has selected MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform to provide enhanced reporting and data analysis for its Oasis 360™ casino management system.

Aristocrat Technologies, a subsidiary of Aristocrat Leisure Limited, offers the most widely-used casino management system in North America, serving more than 270 casinos..