BRIDGEWATER, NJ–(Marketwire -03/27/12)- Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI) (NASDAQ: ENL – News) is proud to host the 19th Annual Euro-Biotech Partnering Summit at the elegant Hilton Arc de Triomphe in Paris this spring, from May 30 to June 1. Top executives from around the globe are invited to join two remarkable keynote speakers from GlaxoSmithKline, Paul Bolno, VP, Business Development, Asia and Ian Tomlinson, SVP, Worldwide Business Development and Biopharm RD as well as the premier biopharma dealmakers in the industry to discuss and debate new ways of sourcing, developing and marketing innovation.

Expected to sell-out, this global forum promises to combine carefully selected company presentations, extensive networking opportunities with one-on-one partnering, and dynamic content discussions that will encourage attendees to draw on global examples of innovation to find new products and maximize efficiency.

Over the three day period, some of the most renowned speakers in industry will offer their first-hand perspectives on MA, dealmaking trends, alliance structures, deal terms, European marketing rights, bio-tech financing, and much more. Such speakers include but are not limited to: Christoph Pittius, PhD, VP of Partnering Business Development for AstraZeneca; Robert Bagdorf, VP of Worldwide Business Development for Pfizer, Inc.; Klaus Wilgenbus, Corporate SVP of PM Business Development and Licensing/Strategy for Boehringer Ingelheim; and Lawson Macartney, PhD, SVP of Emerging Business Unit for Research and Development of Specialty Pharma for Shire.

The agenda is action-packed with topics that are focused on those important trends that are changing how companies do business including:

• Revolutionizing RD
• Preparing to Outlicense: How to be Market Ready
• Reaching the Customer: New Channels for Selling Pharmaceuticals
• Asia: Preparing for Global Leadership
• Creative RD: New Sources for Innovation
• Reinventing Venture Capital: Sourcing New Funds, Risks, and Rewards

This year’s summit will also be the only European Partnering Event to feature EBI’s Strategic Transactions Database, one of the most effective research tools available, offering the most comprehensive deals and tech transfer data in the marketplace. Strategic Transactions can help executives negotiate with confidence by enabling them to value their products, create benchmarks and understand their competition’s strategy.

In addition, attendees will also have access to the Euro-Biotech Proprietary Partnering software, which facilitates attendees in meeting one-on-one with other key decision-makers and networking with their peers for a more personal experience in an intimate setting. It is also linked to Strategic Transactions and the IN VIVO articles database for quick access to partner data and industry information.

Executives are strongly encouraged to join EBI this spring and take full advantage of this opportunity — all in one of the world’s most captivating cities! Attendees will be able to discover the right partners from over twenty-five promising presenting companies, meet hundreds of C-level and senior-level business development attendees at networking events, one-on-one meetings and cocktail receptions, and hone their dealmaking skills at powerful plenary panel discussions.

For registration information about this sell-out conference, or to hear what past attendees are saying about The Euro-Biotech Partnering Summit, visit www.eurobiotechsummit.com.

About Elsevier Business Intelligence
Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI) is global information supplier providing business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry. Through a range of products including publications, conferences, databases and reports, EBI places biopharma and medical device professionals, and those who focus on these industries, at the forefront of knowledge, by providing the perfect combination of news and information together with penetrating insight and analysis. EBI (www.elsevierbi.com) has offices in the U.S. in Bridgewater, NJ; Norwalk, CT; Rockville, MD; and Irvine, CA.

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IGLOO Software, the leading provider of social
business software in the cloud, today announced that it has
partnered with MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider
of business
intelligence (BI) software, to integrate reporting and analytics
into IGLOO’s social business suite. The solution will allow IGLOO
customers to track user participation, influence, activity and
engagement in a social intranet or extranet.

As social technologies are introduced to business, workflow and employee
interactions become more and more visible. The resulting activity and
dialogue produces unprecedented volumes of data around social behaviors
and actions. The addition of an analytics module provides organizations
with the ability to identify areas where social interactions are most
effective and model those more broadly across the entire organization to
improve the effectiveness of team collaboration.

“Traditionally, engaging in a dialogue with employees and gathering deep
insights from those interactions was achieved through an annual opinion
survey,” said Dan Latendre, CEO of IGLOO Software. “IGLOO’s social
business suite provides a new type of visibility into the collaborative
conversations and activities that occur within an organization. For many
companies, uncovering this insight is a game-changer. With our new
social business suite, we will enable our customers to more effectively
manage and optimize their talent and their ongoing interactions with
customers and partners.”

MicroStrategy is one of the leading business intelligence companies
focused on developing powerful technologies that capitalize on Big Data,
Mobile, Social and Cloud trends. The IGLOO integration, managed by
Gensquared, is built on MicroStrategy 9, a fully integrated BI platform
that delivers reports and dashboards to business users via the web and
mobile devices.

IGLOO will integrate MicroStrategy’s BI platform into the IGLOO
administrative console in order to enrich the community management and
reporting process. A dashboard of indicators will be presented
graphically, including activity, contribution types and top content.
Over time, new applications will be built to apply social analytics in a
number of innovative ways that include:

• Creating a more personalized user experience that delivers proactive
  recommendations of relevant people to connect with and content to
  explore
• Adding detailed analytics that gauge employee sentiment and measure
  the effectiveness of project teams in order to understand its impact
  on business performance

“MicroStrategy is pleased to provide the reporting and analytics
platform for IGLOO’s cloud-based social business suite,” said Sanju
Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer. “To meet accelerating
customer demand for critical cloud solutions, Value Added Resellers like
IGLOO Software are choosing MicroStrategy’s platform and easily
integrating its powerful reporting and dashboard capabilities into their
innovative cloud-based services.”

“Gensquared provides a highly customized integration between the
MicroStrategy platform, IGLOO and existing data living outside the IGLOO
social business suite, allowing customers to perform powerful analysis
right within their intranet or extranet,” said Patrick Siconolfi,
Principal at Gensquared Inc. “We are excited to be a part of a solution
that brings together both MicroStrategy and IGLOO to deliver on this
important customer need.”

The first phase of reporting will be made available to all IGLOO
customers in the Spring ’12 release.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise
software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence,
and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy’s BI platform
enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of
data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions.
Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated
analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy’s
mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build,
deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by
embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps.
MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of
applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks
for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer
friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies. The
MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party
software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective
development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more
about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit http://www.microstrategy.com/
and follow us on Facebook
and Twitter.

About Gensquared

Gensquared is a boutique consulting firm focused on enabling
organizations capitalize one of their most important assets – their
Data. Gensquared offers end-to-end professional services focused on
delivering world-class business intelligence and data warehouse
solutions that enable its customers to gain actionable insight for
growing and effectively managing their businesses.

About IGLOO Software

IGLOO’s social business software is the fastest way to enable modern
business collaboration. Delivered purely in the cloud, IGLOO empowers
your people to become more productive, responsive and agile. That is why
world-class companies, such as Cisco, NetApp, Deloitte and the ATP World
Tour, choose IGLOO. Learn more at www.igloosoftware.com.

©
Copyright IGLOO Inc. 2008-2012. All rights reserved. All other
company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/igloo-software-embeds-microstrategy-platform-social-business-suite-154400794.html

QlikTech,
(NASDAQ: QLIK)
a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI),
today announced that its QlikView Business Discovery platform is helping
organizations around the globe overcome the limitations of spreadsheets.
Today, business users need a simple but powerful way to navigate through
data to find the insights needed to make timely, critical business
decisions. As a result of the limitations of traditional BI tools, many
business users have adopted spreadsheets due to their wide availability;
however, these general productivity tools were not specifically designed
to facilitate interactivity, collaboration, aggregation, or analysis of
data for decision making.

Customers Say Spreadsheets Not Suited for Data Analysis and Lack
Reliability

Spreadsheet performance declines when analyzing large data sets or
performing real-time, dynamic calculations. They are often shared and
edited by numerous parties, resulting in multiple versions of similar
material. This lack of version control causes inconsistencies in
analysis, an inability to audit workflows and significant data
reliability challenges. Furthermore, spreadsheets lack sophisticated
data security features and can cause a number of data security
challenges. Consider these customer experiences:

• Dynamex, a leading provider of same-day delivery and logistics
  services, has eliminated an estimated 300 to 400 hours weekly in
  reporting tasks. Using QlikView, the company moved from basing
  business reporting and analysis on summarized Excel spreadsheets to
  near real-time graphical data views. Information that once took up to
  a week to compile can be accessed with one click.

  “We chose
  QlikView over Oracle BIEE and SAP® Business Objects because of the
  great reviews from other users, its competitive pricing and the fact
  that QlikView is geared for business analysts instead of IT
  developers,” said Andrew Pardue, vice president of Information
  Services at Dynamex. “It’s great for my department because our
  business analysts can design their own applications on the fly in
  QlikView with little or no IT involvement.”

• Scarborough Acute NHS Trust, a UK-based healthcare and NHS
  trust, wanted to connect and pull data from various information
  systems to easily create visual reports, charts, and tables that would
  not only assist day-to-day decision making but also help bring down
  mortality rates. QlikView was deployed through its Value Added
  Reseller Trustmarque.

  “Excel was pervasive within the
  organization but the reports became instantly out of date and were
  difficult to maintain,” explains Manni Imiavan, Head of Information,
  Directorate of Finance Procurement. “Clinicians and senior managers
  now use QlikView daily to help in decision making. It provides a view
  of key information from all case notes and clinical reviews, can be
  used to drill down patient pathways, and disseminate information. As a
  result, clinicians are able to compile more accurate and current data
  on mortality ratios due to the enhanced self-service analysis and
  increased visibility of patient information.”

• Dr. Loges + Co GmbH, an organic food and medicine company, was
  looking for a solution to replace its Excel spreadsheets for
  multidimensional accounting and to monitor key performance indicators
  in a quick and reliable way. Within two weeks of QlikView being
  implemented, Dr. Loges’ management team is now able to analyze nearly
  30,000 entries per month.

  “With QlikView, we now have the
  ability to analyze our company not only by cost type, but also by the
  same cost carriers. We can derive those figures without the complexity
  and insecurity of Excel,” said Torsten Rustmann, Commercial Director
  at Dr. Loges + Co. GmbH.

“One of the reasons spreadsheets have remained popular is their ease of
use and flexibility, allowing users to create their own analysis without
waiting for IT,” said Jeff Boehm, vice president of global product
marketing at QlikTech. “QlikView delivers not only the agility business
users require, but also the security, manageability, and consistency
lacking in desktop spreadsheets. QlikView is an achievable step up to
user-driven BI, especially for small and midsize companies who are
outgrowing the time and productivity drains of consolidating multiple
versions of spreadsheets.”

About QlikTech

QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven
Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech’s powerful, accessible Business
Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional business
intelligence solutions and standalone office productivity applications.
Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven
analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks rather than months,
years, or not at all. The in-memory associative search technology it
pioneered allows users to explore information freely rather than being
confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery
works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight
for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app–like model,
remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience.
Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, QlikTech has offices around the
world serving more approximately 24,000 customers in over 100 countries.

QlikTech and QlikView are trademarks or registered trademarks of
QlikTech or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Other
company names, product names and company logos mentioned herein are the
trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/global-organizations-overcome-spreadsheet-limitations-qlikview-business-discovery-120000152.html

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
InformationWeek Reports (
http://reports.informationweek.com ), a provider of peer-based IT research and analysis, announced the release of its latest research report. “Big Data Widens Analytic Talent Gap” provides full results and analysis from InformationWeek’s recent 2012 U.S. IT Salary Survey of business intelligence, analytics and information management professionals, and highlights salary and job-related trends across this group. Nearly 700 business intelligence, analytics and information management professionals responded to the poll.

Research Summary:

Our 2012 InformationWeek Salary Survey shows there’s high demand for analytics experts and information management professionals who can ask the right questions and make use of vast and growing data stores. Total median compensation for business intelligence (BI) managers has increased to $135,000, compared with $121,000 in 2010. Median compensation for BI is up as well, at $95,000 vs. $88,000 two years ago.

Findings:

66% of staff and 83% of managers are receiving, or expect to receive, a bonus in 2012.

The No. 1 most-critical skill for staffers is analyzing data, cited by 78%; aligning business and technology goals is No. 1 for managers, at 81%.

49% of staff and 45% of managers say job or company stability is what matters most about their jobs, up from 42% and 40%, respectively, in 2011.

35% of information management professionals say documenting integration and data warehouse design, processes, and procedures consumes most of their time.

The report author, Doug Henschen, is executive editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics.

For full access to the research data, members can download now:
http://reports.informationweek.com/abstract/166/8729/Professional +Development+and+Salary+Data/research-2012-it-salary-survey-bi-analytics.html?cid=rpt_press_rls

“Organizations are pushing for predictive insight, not just reporting on past performance, and that presents both a challenge and an opportunity,” says Doug Henschen, executive editor of InformationWeek. “The challenge is taking advantage of a growing volume and variety of information while supporting faster decision-making. With the right people in place, skilled in the latest information-management and data-analysis techniques, businesses can seize market openings, avoid risks, or please customers before competitors recognize the opportunity.”

For more information:Art Wittmann VP Managing Director, InformationWeek Reports415-947-6361awittmann@techweb.com

About InformationWeek Business Technology Network (
http://www.informationweek.com )

The InformationWeek Business Technology Network provides IT executives with unique analysis and tools that parallel their work flow- from defining and framing objectives through to the evaluation and recommendation of solutions. Anchored by InformationWeek, the multimedia powerhouse that looks across the enterprise, the network scales across the most critical technology categories with online properties like DarkReading.com (security), NetworkComputing.com (networking and communications) and BYTE (consumer technology). The network also provides focused content for key IT targets, such as CIOs, developers, and SMBs via InformationWeek Global CIO, Dr. Dobb’s and InformationWeek SMB, as well as vital vertical industries with InformationWeek Financial Services, Government and Healthcare sites. Content is at the nucleus of our information distribution strategy – IT professionals turn to our experts and communities to stay informed, get advice and research technologies to make strategic business decisions.

About UBM TechWeb (
http://www.ubmtechweb.com )

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb’s communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands include: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM plc company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/two-thirds-of-bi-and-analytics-it-pros-satisfied-with-their-total-compensation-according-to-informationweek-reports-salary-survey-2012-03-27

There’s a war on to attract and retain business intelligence (BI) and information management (IM) professionals. That much is clear from the BI, analytics, and IM version of our annual InformationWeek IT Salary Survey, Big Data Widens Analytic Talent Gap.

For years, our salary surveys have reported BI and IM professionals to be at or near the top of the IT salary spectrum. Results are much the same in our 2012 survey, though the gap between management and staff salaries has widened. The median BI staff base salary is $90,000, up from $85,000 in 2011. The median BI management salary is $119,000, up from $110,000 last year. Data integration/data warehousing salaries are even higher, at $97,000 for staff and $120,000 for managers, compared with 2011 salaries of $98,000 and $118,000, respectively.

The median looks nice, but who’s at the top of the pay scale? The big push is to find people who can tell the CEO what’s going to happen next, not what happened last week or last month. And with that demand, a generation gap is emerging within BI and information management workforce, says Stacy Blanchard, an executive at Accenture Analytics, a 20,000-plus-employee unit of the management consulting and technology services firm of the same name.

The next generation is driving forward-looking, predictive insights. “They’re typically statisticians who are deep into data modeling, they’re close to the technology, and they know the right algorithms to use with the data available,” says Blanchard.

As available data grows in volume and variety, and gains in velocity, the top-dollar jobs go to those IM professionals who know how to use emerging big-data platforms such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases. They’re helping organizations to put more and more information to work to provide deeper insights and more accurate predictive models, and that’s leading to efficiencies and new services across industries and the public sector.

Manufacturers are studying demand data and supply chain information to cut product-development lead times and improve manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies. Procter Gamble, for example, tells InformationWeek it’s in the process of quadrupling its analytics expertise to help deliver data-driven decision-making dashboards to nearly 60,000 employees. Internet-based firms like AOL, comScore, and eHarmony are using clickstream and mobile big-data analyses to deliver valuable personalization and targeting services used to find best-fit customers, marketing partners, and potential mates.

Retailers from Starbucks to Walmart use data-intensive analyses to improve stocking, product selection, and pricing. Healthcare providers like Johns Hopkins and drug researchers like Harvard Medical School spot patterns in clinical data to improve diagnoses, treatments, and patient outcomes.

In short, businesses and government agencies are putting their faith in data-driven decisions, and that’s increasing demand for analytics and information management expertise.

Article source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/232700311

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Host Analytics, which makes cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) solutions, has launched Host Analytics Business Analytics, a new business intelligence (BI) toolkit for finance which the company says combines the best of CPM and BI in the cloud.

“We have the number one cloud CPM offering, which is focused on systems for finance executives,” said Keri Brooke, VP of marketing at Host Analytics. “Finance has been behind sales and marketing in Cloud adoption, but a massive uptake has started there as well, With the Cloud, companies can experience what the promise of CPM is, and everyone in the organization can make better financially-based decisions.”

Brooke said that they have posted very high growth over the past three years, and that until 18 months ago, they were focused on the upper mid-market.

“Now we are looking more at larger enterprises because of the growth of the Cloud,” she said.

“The new announcement is the general availability of a new business analytics application,” said Alex Ortiz, Host Analytics’ Director of Product Marketing. “We are the first cloud CPM vendor to expand towards BI.”

Ortiz said a key finance use case of the BI app is its ability to give access to data that that tends to be siloed in departments.

“It makes it easy to use for finance without the need heavy IT support that some on-premise BI systems require,” Ortiz said. “We really think that will unleash CPM to a broader audience beyond finance.”

Jon Kondo, Host Analytics’ CEO, said that the company sells through a broad channel ecosystem, including large global SIs, and VARs including an SAP Master VAR.

“With the BI offering, we expect that it will be used initially by a lot of existing partners expanding use cases, but this does make us much more attractive to big SIs and those who concentrate more on the BI side of it.”

“With our current customers, I see a tremendous possibility to sell to them and expand our footprint, but it will also go into companies that are looking for BOTH a BI tool and a CPM tool who might not have considered us previously,” Brooke said. “We can now provide a one stop shop.”

Article source: http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=27622

At long last, the SSAS 2012 Tabular book that Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari and I have been working hard on for the last few months is now available for pre-order!

You can get it from Amazon UK, Amazon US, oreilly.com and all good bookstores…

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