TYSONS CORNER, Va., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR – News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has released a new version of MicroStrategy Mobile that delivers enhanced integration with Apple‘s AirPlay feature. This new capability extends MicroStrategy Mobile wirelessly onto conference-room screens, encouraging spontaneous conversations rather than static slide presentations. When MicroStrategy Mobile users “mirror” their business apps onto screens, the device becomes a data remote-control, letting the user discuss the data on the screen while controlling it wirelessly from an Apple device. For more information, view the product feature video: www.microstrategy.com/bettermeetings.

Enhanced Presentations Using MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad and iPhone with AirPlay
Using MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad and iPhone in AirPlay mode, a business user can present visualizations from his device onto a big screen in a conference room. Users can highlight interesting trends and patterns to their colleagues by holding a finger on the device to display a laser pointer on the screen.  Using MicroStrategy’s native pinch-to-zoom technology, a user can zoom in on the device to highlight certain parts of a dashboard while everyone in the conference room sees it on the big screen.  As a result, the iPad and iPhone become a remote control for the user to dynamically maneuver through reports and visualizations, resulting in a spontaneous conversation around the data. Users can swipe on the device to move between different data-driven visualizations such as heat maps, Google maps, bubble charts, and graph matrixes, and view any slice or aggregation of the data that best supports the conversation.

Having Better, More Productive Meetings with MicroStrategy Mobile
MicroStrategy Mobile enables users to be armed with the latest data. Their business apps give them secure access to their company’s performance, financials, operations, marketing, and training materials.  With the latest release of MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad and iPhone, users can easily present and dynamically explore this information on screens in conference rooms. With MicroStrategy Mobile:

• Any meeting participant can easily take control of the screen and dynamically share content.
• Users can slice and drill into data to support the direction of the conversation.
• Questions can be immediately explored using a wide range of filters on any business dimension or business metric, instantly delivering a fresh perspective to help participants better understand the data and find answers.
• No additional preparation is required as information presented is always up-to-date and automatically refreshed in the background as new data is made available.

MicroStrategy’s Corporate Use of AirPlay in Business Meetings
MicroStrategy has installed Apple TVs in conference rooms and offices throughout its worldwide operations. Of MicroStrategy’s 3,000-plus employees, approximately 1,750 have iPads. MicroStrategy’s deployment of the Apple TV improves the quality of business meetings and increases the return on investment in Apple Mobile devices.

“Using the latest version of MicroStrategy Mobile, our customers can carry important business information wherever they go and project it wirelessly onto the screen when they walk into a conference room,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer.  “We’re excited to be able to take what is essentially a consumer device in the Apple TV and surface its business value for our Mobile customers.”

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 – News), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/microstrategy).

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A recent Bank Systems and Technology report says that many U.S. banks and other financial institutions could benefit from implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution.

“Banks want to use customer-level data on product holdings, channel activity and profitability to improve the targeting of online campaigns and make account application and funding processes more seamless and effective,” the report states.

By using a BI solution to analyze organizational data, banks can improve and streamline operational efficiencies to not only bolster sales and marketing strategies and better develop customer service programs, but also mitigate risk, by developing more appropriate risk management processes.

But what if you combined Mobile BI – the ability to receive reporting and analytics on-the-go via mobile devices – and Location Intelligence (LI) – the ability to combine location-based data and traditional metrics captured within a BI system to uncover otherwise hidden trends, patterns and relationships?  What further benefits can be derived and achieved from the addition and combination of these specialist capabilities?

Customer segmentation for enhanced profitability

What can a BI platform, encompassing LI and mobile analytical capabilities, bring to a financial institution’s critical business processes and operations?

Just ask Yellowfin how, at:  http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFContact.i4

Imagine.  You’re an executive working at Big Finance Brothers Co.  The district manager has called you to an emergency meeting at BFBC’s headquarters.  He’s demanding that you find a way to increase your division’s profitability.  You schedule a flight and make your way to the airport.  You pull out your iPad and, from the back of your taxi, you’re able to design a strategy to:

• Analyze, segment and serve the customers in your division according to costs, profits and services (current and potential)
• Conduct effective customer profiling to develop more successful marketing and sales campaigns through detailed and accurate customer segmentation:  You can analyze the data stored in the core banking CRM based on a range of customer segmentations and geographies to uncover the ideal / most profitable customer profile. You then analyze your division’s customer base to determine profitability across branches and products, and identify and develop new cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and marketing campaigns accordingly. This is crucial, because you know that research indicates that the cost of selling new banking products and services to an existing customer is five times lower than to a new customer. In addition, cross-selling strengthens customer relationships and loyalty.
• Effectively tailor products and services: Better understand customer needs and sentiments regarding banking, and as a consequence, develop, implement and offer new market-leading financial products and services to gain and maintain competitive advantage
• Identify and actively retain and pursue your division’s most profitable customers

By analyzing your division’s mean household income, assets, predominant employment industries and the size and variation of existing loans, you then cultivate a strategy to accurately estimate the risk of customer loans based on:

• The financial assets and earning capacity of the borrower
• The prevailing economic climate

Improve customer satisfaction through understanding and transparency

Nearing the airport, you realize that you can also increase customer satisfaction ratings, not just your division’s profitability, by proactively harnessing data to give clients superior insight into their individual transitional operations.  Using your BI solution’s LI and mobile components, you construct a proposal for your district manager suggesting that BFBC should offer real-time customer-facing reporting and analytics via a new app for the iPhone.  Customers would be able to download this application for free, and receive highly visual and interactive reports detailing spending habits (and locations), to help manage their personal finances. This will enable customers to more easily manage finances by being able to track and analyze their spending and earning patterns by having:

• Real-time understanding of payments
• Real-time understating of spending

The cab comes to a halt.  You tuck your iPad back in its sleeve and stroll towards the terminal, smiling at the prospect of a stress-free flight.

The importance of where: Location Intelligence and Mobile BI

Gartner’s 2012 BI Magic Quadrant survey indicated that the majority (53%) of organizations will deliver some form of mobile analytics by year’s end.  The same report revealed that many organizations, across a diverse range of industries, are beginning to apply BI and analytics to new business areas. As a result, respondents listed “geographic-intelligent functions” as one of the standout new product requirements for 2012. 

The insight able to be leveraged by assessing location-based data on mobile devices is enormous. LI is the glue that binds organizational data assets together, generating context, meaning and exposing crucial relationships between data types. Mobile BI is the platform of the future for reporting and analytics, as executives abandon their desks, and spend more time amongst assets, employees and customers.

With the intensification of trends towards globalization, outsourcing and the instantaneous (driven by our constant connectivity courtesy of the Internet), not knowing will no longer be an excuse – no matter where you, or your company’s operations, are located.

For more on LI and Mobile BI, simply visit:

• Yellowfin’s Mobile BI solutions homepage
• Yellowfin’s LI solutions homepage
• Yellowfin’s blog – Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: The future of BI
• Yellowfin’s Blog – Business Intelligence for the finance and banking sector

Further reading: Still not convinced?

Still not convinced? Check out some of our recent blog posts on Location Intelligence:

• 4 Reasons why you need to implement Location Intelligence in 2012
• Recruiting with Location Intelligence Data visualization
• Location Intelligence data vis explore US software industry
• Location Intelligence in the retail and fast food industry
• The Benefits of Location Intelligence: You’re in real estate, didn’t you know?
• Defining Location Intelligence
• Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing the ‘where’ in mining and exploration
• Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing Data Analysis in the Healthcare Industry
• Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing Data Analysis in Retail

Article source: http://smartdatacollective.com/yellowfin/49765/location-intelligence-and-mobile-bi-advancing-customer-relations-finance-and-banking

Our SearchCIO-Midmarket.com
2012 IT Leadership Awards recognize the contributions and innovations of IT professionals
within midmarket companies. We sent out a call for nominations of individuals who have excelled in
six categories, including the award for Midmarket IT Leader of the Year. This award is for an IT
leader whose efforts resulted in an achievement on many levels, including in several if not all of
the other five categories, and made a substantial contribution to a business or industry.

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard struggled for years with a business
intelligence system that wasn’t up to snuff for the Cambridge, Mass.-based DNA sequencing
center’s robust data-crunching requirements. When Zach Leber came on board two years ago as
assistant director of informatics, only five or 10 intrepid users were braving the clunky legacy
system. It was clear: The center needed a visual business intelligence system that could deliver
results faster at a lower cost and with much richer displays. 

Solid performer. Good overall IT strategies, and the visual BI
solution improvement made an impact across his organization.

SearchCIO-Midmarket.com IT Leadership Awards judges

Leber worked with users to understand their business needs, and helped implement and deploy a
new visual business intelligence system that not only guarantees full use of the center’s DNA
sequencers but also helps researchers optimize
data and discover experiments that aren’t working as well as expected.

Now, with Leber’s new visual business intelligence system in place, the scientists meet daily to
look at results, analyze outliers and do root
cause analysis. User adoption has been significant: Through Leber’s project evangelism, the new
data mining solution has approximately 150 users throughout the center. 

What’s more, with the mobile interface, scientists can check on their experiments using their smartphones
from anywhere, driving a marked increase in productivity at the center. For his efforts, Zach Leber
is a finalist for the SearchCIO-Midmarket.com IT Leader of the Year award.

Company: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Official job title: Assistant Director of Informatics

Revenue: $250 million

Number of employees: 850

Number of years in IT: 20

Educational background: B.A. degree in physics and M.S. degree in computer science, both
from Harvard University

First job: Software engineer

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Speak the vision, live the values, remove
the obstacles. (From consultant and teacher William Jeffries)

What is your alter-ego career? Teaching high school or adults

An excerpt from Zach Leber’s nomination

Right now, Zach is helping to deploy Tableau broadly throughout Broad, showing them how to get
the best use out of it. Earlier this year, he presented to the European DNA sequencing centers, and
they’re since adopted [Leber's visual business intelligence solution] at the largest genome
sequencing center in Europe.

– Doreen Jarman, Tableau Software

What are you currently reading? Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

Describe the best technology decision you ever made: Tableau software

What’s the biggest challenge you face in IT today? Keeping up with users who want more
information

What’s your prediction for the next big technology? A shift
to primary data storage and sharing via cloud services

What was your best career move? Joining a startup right out of college

Describe your biggest career influence: The intensity of that startup’s president showed
me the commitment it takes to run a business.

What is the biggest problem you see with corporate cultures today? Low-trust
inefficiencies and distractions (for example, excessive use of “CC” in emails rather than carefully
directing requests and expecting results)

What’s your advice for IT pros coming up the ranks? Sit with your users.

Twitter handle: None

LinkedIn account link: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zachleber

Let us know what you think about the story; email Wendy Schuchart, Site Editor.

Article source: http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/news/2240148785/Visual-business-intelligence-aids-user-adoption-and-IT-alignment

EMERYVILLE, CA — (Marketwire) — 04/19/12 — Quantivo, a leading provider of cloud-optimized analytics, today announced that Quantivo Founder and Chief Technology Officer Paul O’Leary will present customer success stories in big data analytics on a panel at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The “Real-World Cloud BI Success Stories” panel is designed to help attendees gain a better understanding of the types of insights that companies can get from their big data using cloud business intelligence (BI) solutions such as Quantivo.

During the discussion, O’Leary will explain how Quantivo’s customers overcame the three main challenges associated with mining big data to better understand their business and their customers’ behavior:

1) Data comes from vastly different sources and in a variety of formats at speeds that traditional systems aren’t built to handle
2) Information can be “structured” like the data in a spreadsheet or relational database, or “semi-structured,” as within web data and new sources of data like social media and mobile data
3) Preparing data for analysis by joining it with disparate sources on the fly was next to impossible

At the Cloud Analytics Summit, O’Leary joins an elite list of speakers about big data and cloud analytics from companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Zynga.

Who: Paul O’Leary, founder and CTO, Quantivo, Inc.
What: Real-World Cloud BI Success Stories
When: Wednesday, April 25, 9:35 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
Where: Cloud Analytics Summit, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Calif.

About Quantivo
Quantivo delivers a new on-demand analytic experience in a cloud-optimized platform that is frictionless, fast and flexible. Unlike traditional solutions, Quantivo empowers business users and analysts to quickly load, assess, integrate and analyze large (web-scale) data sets from disparate sources — within hours, not weeks. This is only possible because of Quantivo’s proprietary pattern-store technology, advanced query engine, and elastic cloud architecture. These powerful capabilities drastically speed up and simplify data intake, which accelerates analytical productivity and enables users to discover associations in their data in a train-of-thought query interface. Quantivo is backed by top-tier venture capital firms. For more information, visit http://quantivo.com/

About the Cloud Analytics Summit
The Cloud Analytics Summit is a part of the 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest cloud innovations to satisfy their business requirements and achieve their business objectives. The other forums include the Cloud Management Summit on June 19 and the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the events will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

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