BRIDGEWATER, NJ–(Marketwire -04/02/12)- Elsevier Business Intelligence and Windhover are proud to announce the carefully selected companies that will be presenting at the 9th Annual 2012 Pharmaceutical Strategic Outlook Conference at the Grand Hyatt New York, from April 11th to the 13th. These Top Biotech Companies to Watch have been handpicked by Windhover’s elite selection panel to ensure a vigorous, high quality agenda, and will focus their presentations on the top issues in the industry affecting biopharma strategic dealmaking.

Attendees of the conference are encouraged to take advantage of this exciting new line-up of companies, promising not only the opportunity for cohesive learning and insight on the industry’s latest trends, but also the potential in high-value assets for partnership as well as the distinctive possibility of creating future growth through investments in deals.

The list of presenting companies, in alphabetical order, is as follows:

• Altheus
• Anaptysbio Inc.
• Aptalis Pharmaceutical Technologies
• Axios Biosciences
• Cerenis Therapeutics SA
• Cytokinetics Inc.
• Epizyme
• Excelimmune, Inc.
• GeoVax, Inc.
• Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Liquidia
• MolMed
• Veloxis Pharmaceuticals

This all-star cast of presenting companies guarantees for a dynamic three days of networking and discussion where senior executives will gather to drive pipelines, profits and personal career growth through partnering and knowledge-building! For registration, more information, or to hear what past attendees are saying about PSO, visit www.psoconference.com.

About Windhover Conferences and Elsevier Business
Intelligence Windhover Conferences is an Elsevier Business Intelligence company, the leading provider of business intelligence and analysis to senior executives in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Publishers of The Pink Sheet, IN VIVO: The Business Medicine Report, PharmAsia News, The Tan Sheet”, Start-Up: Emerging Medical Ventures, and The RPM Report: Regulation — Policy — Market Access, Elsevier Business Intelligence and Windhover also host a variety of industry meetings and webinars in both medical device and pharma/biotech, and produce a wide array of market research reports. For more on the companies’ products and services, please visit http://www.ElsevierBI.com.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), (NYSE: RUK – News) and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -04/02/12)- Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced new features currently available in its comprehensive BI platform, WebFOCUS, that improve security and simplify the administration of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments.

SaaS is emerging as a popular model for organizations looking to reduce costs associated with running software in house. In the business intelligence industry, according to a recent Gartner survey, nearly one third of organizations claimed to either already use or plan to use cloud or SaaS offerings to augment their core business BI functions(1). Information Builders has provided SaaS solutions for numerous years but, to address this growing demand, augmented WebFOCUS to provide a better, more secure experience for both the service provider and end user alike.

These new features include:

• Native Support for Multi-tenancy, enabling service providers to reduce costs by securely hosting customers in a shared environment that can quickly scale to accommodate growing demand.

• Powerful Security Features, giving service providers unprecedented control of which WebFOCUS features are available to customers through customizable roles. With this model, providers can differentiate and monetize their reporting service by selectively offering features such as ad-hoc reporting, report scheduling, end-user content sharing and delegated administration.

• Tenant Onboarding Templates, an industry first, which automate the process of creating content folders, groups, roles and security policies for new customers. WebFOCUS features several SaaS templates to simplify onboarding and new ones can easily be developed to meet specific business requirements.

• New Integration Features, in which the user’s role, content access and data sources can be tied to LDAP groups, providing better security controls around tenant information.

• Complete Customization, unlike other SaaS BI solutions, WebFOCUS can be tailored to mimic the look, branding and workflow of each tenant’s portal as needed.

With these enhanced features, Information Builders is fostering the creation and delivery of better, more comprehensive solutions for its customers, regardless of their delivery method of choice.

“As a SaaS company, it was imperative that Chrome River’s BI partner understand the economics of the SaaS business and share our commitment to high quality customer service,” said Alan Rich, chief executive officer and cofounder of Chrome River. “This was a key component of our decision to select Information Builders as our partner for incorporating BI capabilities into our expense reporting and invoice automation solution and we realize the benefits of this investment on a daily basis. We’re excited to continue our partnership and utilize these new features to provide enhanced expense management analytics to our growing customer base.”

“For years, companies such as Chrome River have reaped the value of Information Builders‘ SaaS solutions,” said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. “Providing technology tailored to our customers’ needs is something that has always set us apart from our competition, and we’re continuing to innovate with this latest enhancement. As SaaS gains popularity in the enterprise, we’re arming service providers with the solutions they need to reduce costs, enhance security and simplify administration.”

About Information Builders
Information Builders’ software and services transform data into business value for game-changing results. Our solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, improve employee performance and drive growth.

Our dedication to customer success is unmatched in the industry. That’s why tens of thousands of leading organizations rely on Information Builders solutions to run their business for developing and executing on a world-class information strategy. In addition, we are a major provider to leading technology vendors including HP, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Teradata, Amdocs and many others. Founded in 1975, Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices around the world and remains one of the largest independent, privately-held companies in the software industry. Visit us at www.informationbuilders.com, follow us on Twitter at @infobldrs, like us on Facebook and visit our LinkedIn page.

(1) Gartner Inc. press release, “Gartner Says Nearly One Third of Organizations Use or Plan to Use Cloud Offerings to Augment Business Intelligence Capabilities,” January 2012.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/information-builders-extends-lead-saas-120000752.html

Analytics and business intelligence is the top technology priority for CIOs in 2012, according
to analyst firm Gartner.

Gartner said organisations spent over $12bn in 2012 on business
intelligence (BI), analytics and performance management (PM) software.

“IT [departments] continue to spend and earmark money to BI, despite constrained budgetary
environments,” said Dan Sommer, principal analyst at Gartner. 

“Gartner’s 2012 CIO survey showed that analytics
and BI is the number one technology priority for CIOs in 2012. BI projects remain relatively
shielded, while a healthy portion of any discretionary money will be available for upcoming
analytic initiatives,” he said.

Beyond traditional IT, Sommer said users outside of IT are buying BI tools for line-of-business
initiatives, and taking an increasingly large stake of the spending pie. 

Analytics and BI is the number one technology priority for CIOs in 2012

Dan Sommer, principal analyst, Gartner

“Key drivers for this are self-service data
discovery tools, the race among suppliers to provide business context through packaged
analytics, and CFOs taking a renewed interest in BI and PM,” he said.

SAP remained the number one supplier in combined worldwide business intelligence, analytics and
performance management software revenue in 2011, accounting for 24% of the market, followed by
Oracle, SAS Institute, IBM and Microsoft.

Worldwide business intelligence, analytics and performance management revenue estimates for
2011 by subsegment (millions of US dollars)

Source: Gartner (March 2012)

Article source: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240147762/Gartner-BI-still-the-Number-One-priority-for-CIOs

LOS ALTOS, Calif., Apr 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Talend,
a global open source software leader, today announced that Jaspersoft,
maker of the world’s most widely deployed business intelligence (BI)
software, has upgraded its original equipment manufacturing (OEM)
agreement with Talend to include native support for big data
environments in Jaspersoft ETL.

With the addition of Talend’s
big data integration technology to Jaspersoft ETL, data scientists
can significantly reduce the time that it takes to integrate and
consolidate their enterprise data into big data platforms such as Apache
Hadoop to uncover business trends and insights faster than ever.
Jaspersoft ETL, Powered by Talend, is available as part of
Jaspersoft BI Suite 4.5, which turns data into actionable information by
massively scaling the amount of data enterprise IT and developers can
handle and move at one time.

The addition of native big data capabilities into Jaspersoft ETL allows
data from any source, regardless of format, to be included in Hadoop
clusters, supporting a much broader set of big data use cases for BI
Builders.

In addition to the 450-plus connectors already available through the
previously-existing OEM agreement, connectors added to Jaspersoft ETL
through this OEM extension include:

–
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), to load and extract data from
Hadoop, in batch or streaming mode.

–
HBase, to load, extract and transform data into Hadoop’s
column-oriented database.

–
Pig (Pig Latin generation) and Hive (HiveQL generation), to process
Hadoop data in place, leveraging the power of the Hadoop cluster.

–
Sqoop, for building direct Hadoop-to-database links without coding.

“Open source is leading the way for big data applications and is helping
organizations of all sizes convert massive data sets into meaningful
business intelligence,” said Keith Goldstein, Vice President Worldwide
Channels and Alliances for Talend. “Jaspersoft is at the forefront of
the BI market and especially the big data BI market. By renewing and
extending its longstanding commitment to Talend, and incorporating
Talend’s big data integration technology, Jaspersoft is adding a very
important tool to their portfolio.”

“Big data sets can traditionally take data scientists hours to collect,
load and transform, but today’s data scientists are demanding options to
explore data faster,” said Karl Van den Bergh, Jaspersoft’s Vice
President of Product and Alliances. “The Jaspersoft BI Suite with
enhanced ETL capabilities for big data meets that demand by enabling
efficient data integration for a faster generation of reports and better
decision-making. This wouldn’t be possible without the addition of
Talend’s big data integration technology.”

Jaspersoft ETL, Powered by Talend, is a state-of-the-art data
integration engine. It allows data to be extracted from various sources,
transformed based on defined business rules, and loaded into a
centralized data warehouse or data mart. Jaspersoft ETL is based on
Talend’s enterprise open source integration technology and is provided
under an OEM agreement between Talend and Jaspersoft.

About Talend

Talend is the recognized market leader in open source integration
solutions. The company’s holistic integration platform helps
organizations minimize costs and maximize the value of data integration,
ETL, data quality, master data management, application integration and
business process management, while supporting their shift toward the
Cloud and Big Data. More than 3,500 paying customers worldwide,
including eBay, ING, The Weather Channel, Deutsche Post and Allianz,
subscribe to Talend’s solutions and services. With over 20 million
downloads, Talend’s products are the most trusted integration solutions
in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and
Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more
information, please visit
http://www.talend.com .

SOURCE: Talend

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        Juliet McGinnis, 617-797-6213
        press@talend.com
        or
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COLUMBIA, Md., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
MICROS Systems, Inc.


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, a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant® has expanded its partnership with MICROS through the deployment of MICROS webOrdering, a fully integrated online ordering program and the cloud-based back office platform, mymicros.net. MICROS converted Bertuccis’ legacy online ordering application to MICROS webOrdering across its 94 corporate locations within a 30-day period. MICROS’s mymicros.net business intelligence solution, with the MICROS myinventory and mylabor modules, are also being implemented across all 94 locations.

Bertucci’s, a New England favorite that is best known for its Brick Oven pizza and classic Italian dishes, has relied on MICROS technology for 22 years. After Bertucci’s incumbent online ordering vendor announced it would cease operations within 30 days, Bertucci’s turned to its long time technology partner, MICROS, with very challenging requirements for web design, system performance and project management agility that included an aggressive 30 day deadline for implementation across all locations to ensure no down time with its online ordering service. MICROS accepted this challenge and converted the sites to MICROS webOrdering ahead of schedule and under the projected budget, with improved brand design, expanded functionality, and streamlined integration and data management techniques. MICROS webOrdering allows Bertucci’s customers to place orders over the Web . Once an order is placed online, it is conveniently sent to the MICROS POS Workstation and processed like any other carry out order with no interruption to employee workflow.

“We are thrilled and impressed that MICROS was able to help us implement the MICROS webOrdering solution at our 94 locations and meet our 30-day implementation requirement necessitated by the changes with our legacy vendor,” stated David Lloyd, Bertucci’s CEO. “When we previously started implementation of an online ordering program over a year ago, the MICROS webOrdering application was not yet deployed in the United States. We are excited that it is now available and that it has been installed at Bertucci’s with increased functionality and cost savings from a fully integrated approach.”

Bertucci’s will also leverage MICROS mymicros.net business intelligence platform to improve inventory management through the MICROS myinventory module and manage its workforce with the MICROS mylabor module. The browser-based data warehouse, mymicros.net, will aid Bertucci’s in tightly controlling operations by providing data intensive reports across the enterprise with drill down options to view statistics at each of its 94 locations in real-time.

“MICROS cloud-based back of house solutions have proven to be cutting-edge and the best fit for our operations,” said Brian Connell, CFO at Bertucci’s. “By using a single source provider, we are able to build one relationship where there are fewer integration requirements between vendors, significantly reduced costs, and a consolidation of purchasing. MICROS understands our needs and with the mymicros.net business intelligence platform, myinventory and mylabor, we will soon have easy to interpret reports that will help Bertucci’s reduce costs and become a more efficient operation.”

“After having worked with Bertucci’s for 22 years, our MICROS team understands its organizational structure, business concept, processes, constraints, and requirements,” said Jeff Pinc, Vice President of MICROS Major Accounts Restaurants. “Our long term relationship with Bertucci’s combined with next generation product innovations provide the basis for an expanded partnership and a strategic set of technology solutions. We are excited to add webOrdering, mymicros.net, myinventory and mylabor to Bertucci’s MICROS technology solutions and look forward to continuing to exceed Bertucci’s expectations.”

About Bertucci’s

Since 1981, Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant® has served customers with genuineness and warmth. Today, Bertucci’s operates 94 locations in 10 states and the District of Columbia. Bertucci’s famous Brick Oven is the centerpiece of every restaurant and honesty and passion are still at the heart of every Bertucci’s meal. Bertucci’s continues to develop innovative recipes and use fresh ingredients to craft distinctively delicious Italian meals using simple, time-honored Italian recipes. For more information please contact Stacey Furtado at sfurtado@bertuccis.com or by phone at 508-351-2557.

About MICROS Systems, Inc. MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 330,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail operations in more than 180 countries, and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 26,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale, loss prevention, and cross-channel functionality through its MICROS-Retail division for more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS.

For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Vice President of Marketing at (443) 285-8144 or (866) 287-4736. You can also visit the MICROS website at
www.micros.com or send an email to info@micros.com. Follow MICROS on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the MICROS Blog.

The MICROS logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems, Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.

        Contact: Louise Casamento
        443-285-8144
        lcasamento@micros.com

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Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more appealing to ISVs and other providers that want to offer it as a cloud service, the company announced Tuesday.

First off, the company has introduced support for multitenant deployments, a software architecture common in cloud applications that allows a provider to serve many customers from a single application instance, as well as scale the service on demand.

New security functions provide fine-grained control over which elements of the WebFocus platform are accessible by customers. This allows providers to “differentiate and monetize their reporting service by selectively offering features such as ad-hoc reporting, report scheduling, end-user content sharing and delegated administration,” Information Builders said in a statement.

Other security improvements allow a system user’s role and data sources to be integrated with LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) groups.

Information Builders has also created “tenant onboarding templates” that are meant to get new customers live on the system more quickly.

Forrester Research Vice President Boris Evelson had a measured reaction to Information Builders’ announcement.

“It’s all of the details behind ‘multitenancy’ that really matter,” he said via email. “Do not equate multitenancy with ability to support multiple projects, multiple applications, multiple departments within the same enterprise. All BI tools can do that.”

“But there’s always an administrator function who has access to everything,” he added. “In a true multitenant environment, there now has to be an individual single tenant administrator and an uber administrator.”

“That’s a significant redesign and rearchitecture for most traditional BI vendors. If [Information Builders] has indeed achieved that, that’s great,” Evelson said.

WebFocus 8 is based on a redesigned database repository that incorporates “a new hierarchical addressing scheme called Information Builders File System (IBFS) and which is fully integrated with our new security subsystem,” said Jim Thorstad, technical director at Information Builders.

The system provides full isolation of tenant users and administrators within a shared WebFocus environment that is managed overall by the provider, he said.

Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris’s e-mail address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com

Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/252997/information_builders_gives_its_bi_platform_more_cloudlike_capabilities.html