INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ – News), a global provider of
unified IP business communications solutions, will issue its
first-quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2012 on
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 after the market closes.

Interactive Intelligence will host a conference call April 25, 2012 at
4:30 p.m. EDT, featuring the company’s founder and CEO, Dr. Donald E.
Brown, and its CFO, Stephen R. Head. A live QA session will follow
opening remarks.

To access the teleconference, dial 1.877.324.1969 at least five minutes
prior to the start of the call. Ask for the teleconference by the
following name: “Interactive Intelligence first-quarter earnings call.”

The teleconference will also be broadcast live on the company’s investor
relations’ page at http://investors.inin.com/.
An archive of the teleconference will be posted following the call at
the same URL.

About Interactive Intelligence

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ – News) is a global provider
of contact center automation, unified communications, and business
process automation software and services. The company’s unified IP
business communications solutions, which can be deployed on-premise or
via the cloud, are ideal for industries such as financial services,
insurance, outsourcers, collections, and utilities. Interactive
Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 4,500 customers
worldwide. The company is among Forbes Magazine’s 2011 Best Small
Companies in America and Software Magazine’s 2011 Top 500 Global
Software and Service Providers. It employs more than 1,000 people and is
headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company has offices
throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000
or info@inin.com; on the Net: www.inin.com.

Interactive Intelligence is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE
INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their
respective owners.

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Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/interactive-intelligence-announce-first-quarter-200600409.html

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -04/17/12)- Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the introduction of sophisticated sentiment analysis capabilities into its WebFOCUS Magnify enterprise search platform. One of the first BI products to offer this capability, WebFOCUS Magnify‘s sentiment analysis will be powered by Wand Taxonomy, the industry-leading structured multi-lingual vocabulary for precision search. As a result, Magnify enables users to increase sales opportunities and decrease churn by automatically and accurately gauging the perceptions of customers and prospects and factoring that information into overall sales, marketing, support, and customer communications strategy.

Conventional methods of gauging sentiment, such as social media, surveys, and experience-based feedback can be expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to measure in real time. Magnify automates this process by using the Wand Taxonomy server to classify and score content using a consistent set of rules and algorithms.

WebFOCUS Magnify search includes natural language processing for performing sentiment analysis on any mix of structured and unstructured content, including from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Content can even be compared against data in customer relationship management (CRM) and other enterprise systems to enhance knowledge bases and discover new trends and patterns. As Magnify indexes content, it calls the Wand Taxonomy server to determine the content’s overall expressed feeling as positive, negative, or neutral, and returns a score to Magnify. Magnify stores the score with each search result and displays it as part of the Magnify-faceted navigation. This allows users to filter search based on the information’s overall tone.

“The information hidden within the nuances of human speech has historically been very difficult to extract in an automated fashion,” said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. “By integrating the Wand Taxonomy server into WebFOCUS Magnify, we’ve created an incredibly powerful tool, which enables our customers to uncover the tone of their enterprise content. With WebFOCUS Magnify, the financial impact of emotion is now measurable.”

Visit our website to learn more about WebFOCUS Magnify.

About Information Builders
Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our software solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, 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 to be their trusted partner. 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 industry. Visit us at www.informationbuilders.com, follow us on Twitter at @infobldrs, like us on Facebook and visit our LinkedIn page.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/information-builders-adds-sophisticated-sentiment-120000633.html

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

iPartners,
the leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) business analytics
solutions to the property casualty (PC) insurance industry, today
announced that Florida-based Universal
North America (Universal) has chosen iPartners’
Insurance Scorecard to provide business intelligence and
full-service reporting and analytics for Universal’s new in-house claims
processing environment. Delivering the solution through Software as a
Service (SaaS) model, iPartners is able to meet Universal’s aggressive
early Q2 production timeframe.

In addition to the PC expertise and business content built into the
iPartners Insurance Scorecard, Universal was looking for a solution that
could be tailored to their specific reporting needs without compromising
the project timeline. Bringing claims processing in-house, Universal
needed a way provide an effective method to track claims activity and
report on key results, leading them to select iPartners. Once the claims
project is successfully completed, Universal plans to further leverage
the capabilities of Insurance Scorecard to improve analysis and
reporting capabilities throughout the enterprise.

“We were impressed with iPartners and their Insurance Scorecard
solution, especially given that it is already very PC insurance-focused
with content and capability. A big contributor to our selection of
iPartners was all of the positive feedback from their customers. We were
convinced that they had both the ability and the commitment to work with
us as a partner to enable our success,” said James R. Watje, Universal
North America’s Vice President of Operations Information Technology.

“Bringing the claims operation in-house is no small feat, and we are
pleased to have the opportunity to play a part with our business
intelligence and analytics solution and experience,” commented
iPartners, Robert Lasher, iPartners founder and CEO. “Universal North
America’s selection of our Insurance Scorecard also represents a
milestone for iPartners with Universal being the fifth Florida-based
insurance carrier to use our system. We are proud to say that, with the
addition of Universal, we are now serving over $1 billion in Florida
homeowner premiums.”

iPartners’ Insurance Scorecard Business Intelligence solution is an easy
to use SaaS solution designed specifically for the PC industry. The
suite offers a complete analytics solution including: insurance specific
data warehouse, performance management dashboards and scorecards, ad-hoc
detailed analysis, production reporting, and drill to detail.

About Universal North America

Admitted and offering products and services in 17 states, Universal
North America insures thousands of families throughout the United
States. Universal offers a variety of coverages including homeowners,
dwelling fire, condominium unit owners, renters, flood, earthquake,
hurricane, equipment breakdown, business owners and commercial
residential insurance protection.

Universal North America is recognized and acknowledged as having the
financial strength, technological innovation and organizational
foundation and integrity to anticipate and satisfy its customers’
sophisticated insurance protection needs: today and well into the
future. For additional information, visit www.UniversalNorthAmerica.com.

About iPartners

As the industry leading provider of ‘on demand’ PC insurance business
analytics solutions, iPartners enables insurance executives to make
higher quality and more timely decisions – the true measure of an
insurance executive’s productivity – by delivering accurate, up-to-date,
easy-to-use and relevant data via a suite of customized dashboards,
scorecards, and a library of PC specific KPIs (key performance
indicators). Delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), iPartners
currently services over 35 customers and processes over 15 million
policies representing over $12 billion in premiums. For additional
information visit www.iPartners.net
or call 888.618.8360 ext 230.

PR Contact:
Solomark Associates
Susan Douglas, 847.895.2634
susan@solomark.com

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/universal-north-america-chooses-ipartners-120000749.html

17/04/2012

Cloud business intelligence (BI) can solve the “big data” problem, according to an industry expert.

Jeff Kaplan, founder and managing director of THINKstrategies, which is co-hosting the Cloud Channel Summit in the US in November, says that once businesses see the benefits that cloud architecture has brought to other firms, take up will “accelerate”.

He believes cloud solutions offer “a viable alternative” to traditional, on-premise, legacy systems and software.

“A growing number of customer success stories will accelerate the adoption of cloud BI, analytics and data integration solutions to solve the big data problem,” Mr Kaplan said.

The Cloud Channel Summit is taking place in Mountain View, California, on November 5th 2012 and will provide businesses with a chance to learn more about cloud computing solutions.

Two new conferences are also taking place this year, the Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25th and the Cloud Management Summit, on June 19th.

Article source: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/44386

        PR Contact:
        Solomark Associates
        Susan Douglas, 847.895.2634
        susan@solomark.com

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/universal-north-america-chooses-ipartners-business-intelligence-solution-2012-04-17

        Contact:
        Ronald Trahan, APR
        Ronald Trahan Associates Inc.
        508-359-4005, x108

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/elsevier-business-intelligence-ebi-to-host-in3-medical-device-360-degrees-boston-june-27-29-2012-2012-04-17

PROC STP is a new procedure for SAS 9.3 Stored Processes. It’s so new and different that I have not had the opportunity to use it yet in a customer engagement. When writing about it for the now released “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes” book, I had to dream up several good examples.

But to dream up possible uses, understanding what this new fangled thing can and cannot do was of the utmost importance. Single and multiple parameters can be passed into the procedure using the INPUTPARAM statement. Data from the stored process could be returned into the current session using the OUTPUTDATA statement. Add the REPLAY option to immediately see the ODS output in your client session, or store it and use PROC DOCUMENT to push the content to a permanent location. Here is an example of this trick in action.

Most importantly, the STP Procedure retrieves the .sas code and runs in the client session. So for BASE SAS users, if the .sas code is not in a shared (and identically mapped) location in the client and the server systems, the client session will not be able to locate the code to run. Wait, remember the discussion about 9.3 allowing sas code to be stored in the metadata directly? I venture that this eliminates the constraints of storing the .sas files in shared identically mapped locations. Otherwise, SAS Enterprise Guide could act as the interface by running the PROC STP on the server directly.

After knowing all of this, here are a couple of my ideas.

1. Grabbing the resulting data from a stored process for further analysis in my local session
2. Retrieving the ODS output from one or more stored processes (during a monthly batch process) to include everything together into a single Monthly Report
3. Using the procedure within another stored process, similar to chaining, to reduce/reuse/recycle existing code.

What other uses do you see for PROC STP? What are you looking forward to trying?
For more examples on using PROC STP, check out the last chapter of my new book, co-authored with Tricia Aanderud, “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes“. Buy it today or register by 10PM, Monday April 16th to win a free copy!

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