LINDON, Utah–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

This month at the Gartner BI Summit, Domo
experienced an overwhelming response to its new approach to business
intelligence (BI). Despite imposing a strict NDA for its product
demo, Domo reported overflowing booth traffic, an inordinately high
number of qualified leads, and tremendous enthusiasm for its
user-centric design.

“The feedback from Gartner attendees echoes what we’ve been hearing from
the hundreds of companies signed up for our early adopter program,” said
Josh James, founder and CEO, Domo. “Regardless of their industry or
role, customers share a universal pain point and frustration in not
having all the business information they care about directly accessible
to them and all in one place.”

Domo leverages technology components that have never been available in a
BI solution to make this the first such product truly designed with the
end user in mind. These components are being kept under wraps until the
product is publicly launched.

A senior executive from an online home improvement retailer who had a
demo under NDA said, “We aren’t sure where we set the bar for what we
expected, but you exceeded it.”

An early adopter in the financial services industry commented, “The
number one reason we chose Domo was innovation. Domo has introduced us
to things that no other vendor has ever shown us.”

“While we enable businesses to do things with business information that
haven’t been possible until now, customers are also sharing their
delight at the user experience,” said James.

After seeing Domo’s demo at the Gartner conference under NDA, a wireless
industry executive commented, “I’ve looked at a lot of solutions and,
for the past couple of years, this is how I envisioned BI should look. I
just haven’t seen it until now.”

An early adopter customer, a significant player in the automotive supply
chain industry, commented, “One of the main reasons we chose Domo was
just flat out how it looked. We thought it looked better. We thought it
offered more than the other solutions. The competitive products we
looked at were ok, but they seemed to be a little complicated.”

James added, “When we started selling through our early adopter program,
we expected to hit a nerve with customers, but the initial response has
blown past all of our expectations. Our early adopter program has been
tremendously successful, and we are now scheduling more and more
installs and are excited about the impact we are having.”

Companies wanting to sign up for a demo and see how Domo can help
transform the way they manage their business can do so at domo.com.

About Domo

Domo is a SaaS-based venture from Omniture co-founder and long-time CEO
Josh James that redefines the business intelligence (BI) market and
transforms the way business is managed. Domo gives users direct,
real-time access to all the business information they care about, all in
one place.

With $63 million in funding, Domo is backed by an all-star list of
angels and investors including Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz,
IVP, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, Hummer Winblad, plus the
who’s who of SaaS and Internet technology.

Domo’s founding team consists of some of the most sought-after talent in
the industry with experience that includes Amazon, American Express,
Ancestry.com, eBay, Endeca, Facebook, Google, Linkedin, MLB.com,
Omniture, Salesforce.com and SAP.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/domo-approach-business-intelligence-makes-110000984.html

ORLANDO, FL–(Marketwire -04/18/12)- Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation announces a new independent research report focused on the benefits of embedded business intelligence and analytics. In the report, Pentaho OEM partner AssetWorks, a leader in Intelligent Workplace Management(SM), is featured as a best-in-class enterprise vendor using Pentaho Embedded BI to deliver broader information visibility, aimed at improving organizational excellence and analytical culture.

Findings from the Aberdeen Group research report “Embedded BI: Boosting Analytical Adoption and Engagement” published in March 2012 and written by Michael Lock, research director and group leader, technology markets, indicate that speed of adoption and the ability to tailor analytical functionality are the top benefits of an embedded approach.

According to Aberdeen Group’s Lock, “The majority of our survey respondents use a hybrid approach where they tailor a pre-built BI package provided and supported by a BI vendor, to meet their needs. While this approach does create integration challenges — which in itself shows the importance of a pluggable BI architecture, companies who choose a hybrid approach vs. a fully home-grown solution are well positioned not only to deliver an easy-to-use analytical tool to their key decision makers, but do so at a substantially reduced burden of IT expertise and time.”

Featured in the report, AssetWorks, a leader in Intelligent Workplace Management(SM), embeds Pentaho Business Analytics into its AiM™ IQ product to provide customers with greater access to enterprise data, better peer-to-peer analysis and easy-to-use analytical capabilities for non-technical users such as C-level executives, electricians and plumbers. AiM helps asset- and infrastructure-intensive organizations control capital and operating expenditures, reduce operational complexity, and manage regulatory and policy-driven risk.

“Pentaho Business Analytics is quick to embed and provides almost instantaneous ROI because it is a modern, open and highly extensible platform,” said Randy Walsh, Vice President of Professional Services, AssetWorks. “Pentaho’s attractive visualizations have become a part of our new capital planning and project management module, providing our customers with an enhanced user experience and wider visibility to enterprise data, which our current customers require and gives us a new competitive advantage in our market.”

“It’s great to see that AssetWorks’ implementation of Pentaho Business Analytics meets the best-in-class criteria for embedded BI solutions as described in the Aberdeen report,” said Farnaz Erfan, product marketing, OEM and Cloud strategy, Pentaho. “The Pentaho Business Analytics platform is designed specifically to be quick, easy and affordable to embed so ISVs and cloud/SaaS providers can use Pentaho to drive incremental revenue, create competitive differentiation, and increase their overall strategic value as an enterprise software vendor.”

• Download the full Aberdeen report: Embedded BI: Boosting Analytical Adoption and Engagement.
• Register for the webinar, “Building the Business Case for Embedded BI” with Michael Lock of Aberdeen and AssetWorks at Pentaho.com/assetworks-webinar.
• Learn more about embedding Pentaho Business Analytics.

About Pentaho Corporation
Pentaho is delivering the future of business analytics. Pentaho’s open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for the future of analytics, including diverse and big data requirements. Powerful business analytics are made easy with Pentaho’s cost-effective suite for data access, visualization, integration, analysis and mining. For a free evaluation, download Pentaho Business Analytics at www.pentaho.com/get-started.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/independent-research-outlines-benefits-embedding-132900225.html

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — MaxHire, the leading provider of connected staffing software, is pleased to announce the release of their integrated enterprise business intelligence platform. The visually stunning dashboards provide staffing professionals, team leaders and business owners with insight into real-time metrics that help drive performance.

“The instant visibility that MaxHire’s integrated business intelligence dashboards give into all areas of staffing and recruiting firms offers managers and owners insight into how their teams are performing at any given time and helps them to identify and resolve any problems early on,” commented MaxHire CEO and Product Manager, Peter Blitz.

After gathering feedback from customers and analyzing the landscape of the current staffing solutions market, Blitz decided that in order for C-level executives to manage staff more effectively, their recruiting software needed to provide them with a way to gain more insight into how their teams and employees were functioning.

MaxHire now comes with a wide variety of out-of-the box dashboards that provide the most common metrics that are used to measure performance and compensate employees within staffing and recruiting firms. MaxHire customers also have the option to add an unlimited number of dashboards that are tailored to their business. The interactive, visually stunning reports, powered by Tableau Software, the leading enterprise business intelligence platform of the Fortune 500, allows users to filter, highlight and drill down to data in real-time so there is no lag in seeing the information that is most important to them. With the ability to access dashboards remotely on tablets and PDA’s, users can even access metrics when they are on-the-go.

As a leader in the staffing software sector for over 10 years, MaxHire continues to add new tools to its already robust feature set that allow staffing and recruiting firms to replace disconnected software from multiple vendors with one integrated solution. MaxHire’s new integrated dashboards give recruiters, account managers, CFOs and owners complete visibility into performance in all areas of the business.

About Tableau Software

Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Ranked by Gartner and IDC in 2011 as the world’s fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau helps anyone quickly and easily analyze, visualize and share information. More than 7,000 companies get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at www.tableausoftware.com/trial.

About MaxHire Solutions

MaxHire connected staffing software provides contract and direct hire staffing firms with one integrated solution for sales CRM, applicant tracking, sourcing, business intelligence and back office. As the staffing software industry’s pioneer of new ideas since 1995, MaxHire is passionate about creating technologies that boost productivity and deliver results. Over 2000 recruiting and staffing firms in 25 countries rely on MaxHire to give them an edge in a highly competitive industry where minutes matter. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC and on the web at http://www.MaxHire.net.

Contact: Rachel Lai, 1-800-206-7934, rachel@maxhire.com

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/maxhires-business-intelligence-dashboards-staffing-130000971.html

        
        --  Download the full Aberdeen report: Embedded BI: Boosting Analytical
            Adoption and Engagement.
        --  Register for the webinar, "Building the Business Case for Embedded BI"
            with Michael Lock of Aberdeen and AssetWorks at
            Pentaho.com/assetworks-webinar.
        --  Learn more about embedding Pentaho Business Analytics.
        
        

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-independent-research-outlines-benefits-of-embedding-business-intelligence-2012-04-18

        
        Domo 
        Julie Kehoe, 914-374-8622 
        VP of Communications 
        Julie.Kehoe@domo.com
        

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/domos-new-approach-to-business-intelligence-makes-big-splash-at-gartner-bi-summit-2012-04-18

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/maxhires-new-business-intelligence-dashboards-provide-staffing-firms-with-performance-driving-metrics-2012-04-18

Is the ability to think critically too much to expect of business intelligence (BI) professionals? How about BI professionals who support institutions of higher learning? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect high levels of critical thinking from them? Unfortunately, a recent experience has called this into question.

I’m currently in Austin, Texas where I’ll be teaching one of my public workshops this week. On Sunday, I taught a visual data analysis course here on the campus of the University of Texas at the annual conference of HEDW (Higher Education Data Warehousing). I cherish opportunities to support educational institutions. I believe in the power of education to improve the lives of individuals and to make the world a better place. I spent eight hours with 65 wonderful people who support decision making, mostly at universities, through the use of business intelligence technologies. You can imagine my shock and chagrin when in the evening I attended the opening keynote presentation that turned out to consist ultimately of a parlor show on par with psychic reading.

Mac Fulfer who worked for many years as an attorney, is now a face reader. What is face reading?

We all understand the importance of facial expression in communication. We know the meaning of a smile or a frown, but few realize that a face is a living record and personality profile rolled into one. Each face reflects in its structure and lines its owner’s personal history, mental attitudes, character traits, intimacy requirements, work ethic, personal preferences, and much more. A face can be read like a map that points the way to a deeper understanding of yourself and of every person you meet.

Here are a few examples of the insights that you can read in a person’s face:

And what does this have to do with business intelligence? An answer was provided when Mac Fulfer was introduced, which I’ll paraphrase:

Business intelligence is about reading data. Faces are just another form of data.

I hope that our reading of data is more trustworthy and meaningful than Fulfer’s reading of faces.

I approached the evening with an open mind, assuming that Fulfer and his content had been carefully vetted. I maintained an open mind for about 45 minutes, as Fulfer laid a foundation for face reading by citing research into the meanings of specific expressions, including the work of Paul Ekman that focuses on the meanings of facial micro-gestures, on whom the television series “Lie to Me” is roughly based. I was already familiar with most of this work, which I find interesting. As it turned out, however, the evidence that Fulfer presented had no bearing on his own work. Unlike Ekman, who has done years of painstaking research to identify the meanings of specific micro-gestures in the face that reveal people’s thoughts and feelings, Fulfer doesn’t look for micro-gestures and he isn’t particularly concerned with peoples thoughts and feelings in the moment. Instead, he believes that our personalities and characters are written on our faces through physical features, much as a phrenologist of the 19th century believed that one’s psychological attributes could be discerned by feeling the bumps on a person’s head. As our personalities change, Fulfer believes that our brains direct the physical characteristics of our faces to change accordingly. Square vs. pointy jaws, squinty vs. round open eyes, and so on are all clear reflections of our souls. To illustrate, he showed us photos of himself as a young boy with big outwardly extended ears (a sign of independence) and pointed out that as his personality changed later in life, his ears moved back to lie flat against his head.

It was interesting that so much time was used to establish a scientific foundation for face reading, despite its irrelevance to Fulfer’s own version of the craft, especially given the fact that he stated in the beginning that the credibility of his work had not as yet been scientifically confirmed. He was careful to put this admission, however, into context by stating that before Newton the laws of gravity were not established. I desperately wanted to point out that, unlike gravity, which we experience every moment of our lives (excluding astronauts) and know to exist even if we don’t understand the scientific explanation, the fact that a high forehead is a sign of intelligence is not evident. I also wanted to ask why his notion that facial characteristics reflect our personalities continues to lack confirmation after all these years when it would be so easy to test. For instance, how difficult would it be to measure the IQs of people and see if intelligence correlates with the height of their foreheads?

The true nature of Fulfer’s work became evident when he had a few volunteers come up to the stage to have their faces read. That’s when the parlor-trick quality of his brand of face reading became clear. Just like psychic readers, Fulfer used the exact phrases that they might utter, to describe the volunteers. They went something like this:

Your low-hanging ear lobes tell me that you don’t accept everything that you’re told. Although you’re polite about it, you need to see the evidence for yourself. Only then will you accept it.

Now, what BI professional (or anyone else for that matter) is going to respond: “No, you’re wrong, I’m completely gullible; I believe everything I’m told without question.” Yet, to accept Fulfer’s assessment based on the shape of one’s ears would require a great deal of gullibility. I suspect that Fulfer is well aware of the irony and finds it amusing.

I’m sure that I wasn’t the only person in the room that found Fulfer’s parlor show unconvincing. I’m surprised, however, that HEDW’s speaker selection committee didn’t suspect this in advance and vet his credentials carefully. The fact that Fulfer regularly entertains at birthday parties and bar mitzvah’s might have clued them in, but even BI professionals in positions of leadership sometimes do dumb things.

In fact, to tie this more closely to the subject matter of this blog, I’ve observed that BI professionals routinely make dumb decisions when they buy the patter of software salespeople who, like hucksters at a carnival, extol the wonders of shiny spinning pie charts and dashboard gauges to present data effectively. They want to believe it, because those flashy charts look so fun and impressive. Wanting to believe it, they set their critical faculties aside and write checks for huge sums of money. Why would we expect decision support professionals to know better? It’s not like it really matters—right?

Take care,

Article source: http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1217