Open source business intelligence and analytics vendor Pentaho has built a business around delivering standalone enterprise solutions. It also now has growing business embedding its solutions into OEM products.

To help accelerate the adoption and integration of Pentaho into third party applications, particularly software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, Pentaho now has a new program called Powered by Pentaho that is designed to help independent application vendors embed Pentaho’s analytics capabilities into their solutions.

“It’s the embeddable and cloud-ready nature of our platform that has been really interesting to our OEM partners,” said Rosanne Saccone, Pentaho’s chief marketing officer.  “Folks want to leverage a lightweight, embeddable platform to surround their applications with powerful analytics to drive more business opportunities for them.”

Pentaho’s analytics software is available as both an open source community edition and as a subscription-based enterprise edition. For the Powered by Pentaho embedded analytics, the company is pushing the enterprise platform, though the open source edition can also be used. “We have a great set of partners that work with our open source technologies and customize that for customers that aren’t commercial customers for Pentaho,” Saccone said.

As is often the case, support is the key difference between using the open source edition versus using the subscription-based enterprise release. And, said Erfan, not all aspects of Pentaho’s portfolio are open source. “Open source is a great foundation to get up and running, but for example, our data discovery and interactive analysis pieces are not in the open source edition.”

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M5 Networks (http://www.m5.net), the market leader in cloud communications for business, and InsightSquared (http://www.insightsquared.com), the leading provider of business intelligence software for small and medium-sized businesses, announced a partnership today at the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum in Las Vegas, NV.

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– Combining data from the business phone system with data from front and back office systems enables staffing firms to run their business by the numbers -

M5 Networks (http://www.m5.net), the market leader in cloud communications for business, and InsightSquared (http://www.insightsquared.com), the leading provider of business intelligence software for small and medium-sized businesses, announced a partnership today at the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum in Las Vegas, NV.

As a result of the partnership, M5’s customers will be able to manage their data generated from M5 alongside data from other systems, such as their applicant tracking system, in InsightSquared’s business intelligence product, empowering decision makers to make better, data-driven decisions in order to improve efficiency and increase revenue.

“Like most small and medium-sized businesses, staffing and recruiting firms generate large amounts of data from their business applications, such as their phone system and applicant tracking system. Decision makers at these firms need an easy way to not only manage all of this data, but to also analyze this data efficiently in order to make better business decisions,” said Fred Shilmover, CEO and co-founder at InsightSquared. “Our ground-breaking business intelligence product, which we have tailored specifically for the staffing and recruiting industry, aggregates all of this data and makes it easier to quickly identify the actionable items that will move the needle.”

The combined solution will help customers:

•     Manage data from the business phone system and other applications, such as the applicant tracking system, in one easy to use interface

•     Visualize trends in voice and data to understand the “why” of spikes and valleys in activity
•     Save time, effort and money by eliminating the need to manually generate reports or hire data analysts
•     Identify actions that will positively impact efficiency and revenue

“M5 is committed to helping companies bridge the gap between the telephone and critical business applications like the applicant tracking system,” said Brent Barbara, VP of Innovation and Integration for M5 Networks. “Our partnership with InsightSquared is part of our vision to improve a system’s data and analytics, while at the same time satisfying the users’ need for speed and ease of use. Harmonious integration of the telephone and applicant tracking system isn’t just a ‘nice-to-have’ for companies that want to increase placements and improve support performance, it’s a non-negotiable requirement.”

Joint clients are excited about the partnership. “At Hobson Associates, we have valued the technologies that both InsightSquared and M5 have been providing to us standalone, so we are extremely excited about this partnership,” said Lisa Iannone, Vice President and Senior Partner at Hobson Associates. “Hobson is a metrics-driven company, and as a result of this integration, we will now have a comprehensive analytics solution that allows us to more effectively and efficiently manage our business and drive revenue.”

The integrated solution will be available in Q2 2012.

About M5 Networks

M5 Networks, the market leader in business phone systems, is redefining what a business phone system can do by offering a wide range of solutions for all types of businesses and needs. From managing a sales force to a call center, M5 Networks’ client-focused, cloud-based solutions allow businesses to work the way they want to, while connecting them to their customers and integrating their business-critical applications. Headquartered in New York City, industry-award winning M5 Networks pioneered hosted VoIP in 2000 and today provides more than 2,000 companies with enterprise-class phone systems. For more information, please visit http://www.m5.net.

For more information about this announcement or other products designed to improve placement productivity for staffing firms, join M5 Networks during TECH Day at the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum or visit http://www.m5.net/customers/staffing/.

About InsightSquared

InsightSquared is the leading provider of business intelligence software for small and medium-sized businesses. InsightSquared’s powerful, at-a-glance reports and analytics enable decision makers at small and medium-sized businesses in multiple industries, including the staffing and recruiting industry, to get the most out of their data without costly setup time, maintenance, or a need for an IT or analytics support staff. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. For more information, please visit http://www.insightsquared.com/.

For more information about this announcement or other products designed to improve productivity for staffing and recruiting firms, join InsightSquared during TECH Day at the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum or visit http://www.insightsquared.com/insightsquared-for-m5-users/.

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SAP last month quietly “ramped up” SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis. Ramp up is the vendor’s approach to releasing production software to a limited number of customers. The product is expected to be generally available later this year.

Predictive analytics has become an increasingly important part of the larger business intelligence (BI) market and an area in which SAP has lagged behind chief competitors IBM and SAS. SAP currently resells and embeds analytics software sourced from SPSS, but with IBM’s acquisition of SPSS in 2009, it seemed only a matter of time before SAP would develop an alternative.

SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis, the company’s new product, has been shaped by competitive and market forces, including the momentum of open source R, in-memory and in-database processing, and the convergence of analytics with BI.

Open source R: This statistical language emerged from a project initiated by academics in New Zealand in the mid 1990s. A number of vendors, including SAS, have added support for R as it has gained popularity. Information Builders WebFocus Rstat and TIBCO Spotfire S+, for example, are both based on R. SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis provides a graphical user interface to R.

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SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis has two components: model development and execution, and data visualization. I was impressed by the number of visualizations Predictive Analysis automatically generated to identify patterns in data. To be clear, this is not a visual discovery tool for business users that competes with the likes of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer or Tableau Software. It’s a tool for statisticians.

In-database processing: Statisticians have typically done their analyses and model building on data that resides in flat files or in proprietary data-set formats. As data volumes have grown, database and analytic vendors have been pushing more of the processing into the database, where analyses of large data sets can be completed much more quickly.

SAS was one of the first to support in-database processing, working with Teradata in 2008, and it now supports the approach in Netezza, EMC Greenplum, DB2, and AsterData databases as well. Oracle last month released Oracle Advanced Analytics, which bundles Oracle R Enterprise software and supports in-database processing of R models inside the Oracle database. Predictive Analysis pushes processing into Hana, SAP’s in-memory database, which has its own statistical function library.

Mainstream analytics: There has never been a cry for mainstream analytics in the way there have been calls for democratizing business intelligence. Developing analytic models remains a task for skilled statisticians, but there have been calls for improved integration and easy consumption of model-derived data. Some BI vendors have made it easy to call on models and transparently embed the results within a dashboard or report. An example is a report that displays sales by customer, with a model-derived predictive flag to indicate the likelihood of churning.

MicroStrategy was one of the first vendors to provide such seamless integration, but adoption has been slow. There has been greater demand for pre-built analytic applications, a market in which SAS is the leader and IBM is growing.

SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis is well integrated with SAP’s BI platform in that the tool can access a Universe (data model) in either the version 3 (.UNV) format or the newer version 4 (.UNX) format. The level of integration is similar to what SAP provides for SPSS software. However, there’s currently no easy way to embed model results in a dashboard or report. SAP says its various analytic applications will take advantage of Predictive Analysis modeling capabilities over time. For example, the SAP Smart Meter Analytics application uses clustering and segmentation algorithms on energy consumption that could be developed and tuned in Predictive Analysis.

SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis is not the vendor’s first entry into advanced analytics, but it represents a bigger commitment than earlier efforts. It’s too early to say whether it will have any impact on SAS or IBM SPSS market share. However, it certainly will improve the capabilities of SAP analytic applications and it will put SAP on the short list of vendors to investigate for any customer that is new to predictive analysis.

Cindi Howson is the founder of BI Scorecard , an independent analyst firm that advises companies on BI tool strategies and offers in-depth business intelligence product reviews.

Predictive IT analytics can provide invaluable insight–vital if a private cloud is in your future. Find out how in the new, all-digital Predictive IT Analytics issue of InformationWeek. Also in this issue: Randy Mott named CIO of General Motors, how Dell is pushing into the enterprise data center, and eight key features in Windows 8. (Free registration required.)

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KloudData Extends Their BI portfolio with Ready to Use Dashboards for SAP

Fremont, CA, March 17, 2012 –(PR.com)– KloudData, Inc., a leading cloud-enabled enterprise, analytics and mobility solutions provider, partners with FusionOps, named a “cool business intelligence vendor for 2010″ by Gartner for their innovative approach to enterprise business analytics, to bring to market iKloud Insight – a cloud-based business intelligence app from FusionOps, that delivers instant and powerful analytics for SAP.

iKloud Insight (http://www.klouddata.com/solutions/ikloud/insight) enables fast growth SMEs to get more value from their existing SAP investments by delivering pre-built dashboards and reports to business users and decision makers in manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and billing.

With this next generation cloud-based business intelligence software from FusionOps, KloudData now serves a brilliantly simple and quick user experience, where end users can get fully-functional dashboards, reports and metrics in a matter of hours, saving IT millions of dollars and months of hard work. iKloud Insight enables self-service analytics for end-users while providing pre-built BI infrastructure, data models and SAP certified integration. The pre-built dashboards and metrics can be used as-is, or customized with simple on-screen drag and drop operations.

“With iKloud Insight, we reiterate our commitment to deliver rapid value to existing and new SAP and BI customers,” says Miten Mehta, COO, KloudData. “The affordable subscription-based pricing allows customers to pay for only what they use. No hardware or software installation is required for this robust cloud-based application.”

Prashant Parekh, CEO, KloudData, adds, “FusionOps, with their focus on robust and affordable BI solutions, are a great partner for us, because their solutions are just what we would like to take to our customers in the emerging, fast growth market – highly reliable and quickly available.”

Shariq Mansoor, Founder and CTO at FusionOps stated, “We are pleased to announce that KloudData will now be offering Insight as part of their solutions lineup.” Mansoor continued “KloudData’s expertise in the BI and SAP space is a perfect fit for packaged BI applications like Insight.”

About FusionOps

FusionOps, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, provides ready-to-use business intelligence applications that enable real-time analytics as well as end-user ease of implantation and use. FusionOps takes advantage of the Cloud to rapidly deploy dashboards, reports and metrics to business users, without the cost or complexity of traditional BI tools.

About KloudData

KloudData is a leading cloud consulting services provider to Fortune 1000 companies, helping to reduce cost, complexity and risk while improving operational efficiencies and accelerating business growth with services that are highly scalable and elastic. KloudData solutions and services – iKloud, mKloud and eKloud – instantly adjust to dynamic business demands by provisioning and modifying complex infrastructure in minutes, allowing CIOs to deliver innovation and value on demand. KloudData Cloud Services enable IT staff to accelerate service delivery and time to market transforming business agility. KloudData also offers Mobility solutions on cloud and delivers user friendly applications on various mobile platforms. Headquartered in Freemont, CA with offices in Columbia, Maryland, Nagpur and Pune in India allows KloudData to provide round the clock delivery and support capabilities. For more information, visit www.klouddata.com.

Note: KloudData, iKloud, eKloud, mKloud are trademarks of KloudData. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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When you are constantly taking the data tables and completing joins to begin working on your reports or analysis it might be time to consider creating permanent views. Then you can just add the view to the Enterprise Guide project rather than dealing with the joins in a Query Builder task.

There are two options to do this off of your currently built join in Query Builder.

1. Modify the options to save the table in a permanent library. (In the example, I saved to a library called Storage.) Then update the preferences to save as a VIEW instead of a data TABLE.
2. Use the preview screen to grab the existing PROC SQL code and then paste that into a SAS code node to make modifications.

Included below is a quick movie to see these two steps in action.
I have two dimension tables (Customer and Product) that I have to constantly merge into the sales_history table. Saving this as a permanent view (storage.candy_fulltable) means that I can just use that next time instead of rebuilding this join.

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