New partnership will elevate visibility within software products, help gain valuable market share and expand eDominate’s and Foresight Intelligence’s footprint in the financial industry

Scottsdale, Arizona (PRWEB) May 01, 2012

Business intelligence company, Foresight Intelligence®, announced today a new partnership with leading financial software company, eDominante™. As an OEM solution partner, Foresight Intelligence® will enhance eDominate’s offerings by providing a highly visible, interactive environment for the eDominate eCM™ product and additional eDominate products in the future, helping each company gain market share in the financial industry.

eDominate™ provides software solutions to financial institutions for on online marketing, loan generation, loan origination, cross-selling, and data analysis. Their eCommerce Manager™, or eCM™, is an interactive online lending, marketing, business networking and customer service portal that increases financial institutions loan portfolio, deposits, and profitability. Foresight Intelligence® Center will bring the dashboard reporting element to eCM™ bringing greater analytics, high visibility and more usability to the eDominate™ customer.

“We are committed to establishing strategic alliance with only the best technology, services and solution providers,” states John Michael, President of eDominate™, “Our partnership with Foresight Intelligence® will help us ensure customer success and adds significant value to our solution by allowing us to present actionable information to our customers through their dashboard reporting tool.”

“We are excited to add eDominate™ to our list of partners,” says Dale Hanna, Foresight Intelligence® CEO. “Their decision to partner with us reinforces our dedication to delivering reliable, innovative active business intelligence solutions.”

About eDominate:

eDominate™ is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and is a privately-held corporation doing business since 2006. Our unique mission is to help our customers dominate their lending markets by extending their lending solutions to customers at the “point of sale” through local businesses and website portals via our eCM™ solution resulting in new business, improved service, and increased profits. Financial institutions from de novo to over $20B in assets, leverage eDominate solutions for online marketing, loan generation, loan origination, cross-selling, and data analysis. Our “lending-by-design” approach to our Loan Origination software can be delivered internationally and tailored to support any commercial, consumer, indirect, or mortgage lending process. For more information, visit http://www.edominate.com.

About Foresight Intelligence:

Foresight Intelligence® significantly changes the way companies do business. By providing historical, current and predictive views of business operations from live data, we empower the business decision-making process and fiscal accountability. Our software solution compares multiple perspectives from virtually any enterprise application or data source – including structured and unstructured information. Our real-time dashboards, alerts, and status overviews actively deliver the information needed to improve forecasting, enable better decisions with immediate feedback for mission-critical activities and increases transparency for all users. Built on secure and extensible technology, Foresight Intelligence is a more effective alternative to other business intelligence solutions. For more information please call 888-658-6462 or visit our website at http://www.foresightintelligence.com.

Jacqueline Cruz
Foresight Intelligence
(415) 358-1683
Email Information

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/business-intelligence-company-foresight-intelligence-partners-leading-financial-143621609.html

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Geeknet Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of Geeknet Inc. (GKNT – News), today announced the launch of its first website dedicated to business intelligence, SlashBI. http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/

SlashBI will offer IT pros such as CIOs, IT administrators, and developers access to the latest information about business intelligence applications and analytics, which are transforming how companies operate at every level. Users can read exclusive content created by a high-profile roster of subject matter experts, businesses leaders, analysts, and application developers. The website will publish every business day with a mixture of news, peer questions, and professional commentary. A weekly email newsletter with links to Geeknet’s Slashdot website will provide additional levels of insight.

“SlashBI is new B2B editorial destination designed to give IT professionals all the breaking news, learnings, insight, and analysis they need in the white-hot field of business intelligence and analytics,” said Geeknet Media Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Wellman. “We are confident that SlashBI, under the editorial direction of veteran technology editor and writer Nick Kolakowski, will give IT pros all the business analytics resources and tools they need every business day.”

“Slashdot is the early innovator of social media in technology, offering ‘news for nerds and stuff that matters.’ SlashBI represents the first new vertical experience, with great content for those interested in business intelligence,” said Geeknet Media CEO Jeff Drobick. “In addition, we are committed to the core Slashdot site experience, where you can participate in passionate debate on tech news. We feel this expansion of complementary content will make Slashdot the place to go in B2B technology.”

ABOUT SLASHDOT

Slashdot is the first and leading social media destination for technology professionals and IT decision makers. Slashdot’s highly engaged community of IT influencers share and socialize hundreds of pieces of content every day, including news, analysis, peer questions, and professional insight. Slashdot is a website of Geeknet Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of Geeknet Inc. (GKNT – News).

ABOUT GEEKNET

Geeknet is home to some of the best-known brands in the geek universe, and is the online network for the global geek community. We serve an audience of over 52 million users each month and provide the tech-obsessed with content, culture, connections, commerce, and all the things that geeks crave. Want to learn more? Check out geek.net.

The Geeknet, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7330

Geeknet is a trademark of Geeknet, Inc. SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, and FreeCode are trademarks of Geeknet, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks or product names are property of their respective owners.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/slashdot-launches-business-intelligence-website-123000871.html

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

CloudTrigger, a leader in cloud-based applications and services,
introduces G2Analytics, an analytics and business intelligence
application that delivers BI capabilities with unmatched speed,
scalability and cost advantage.

“Now, with G2Analytics, any company can put in place a nimble and
dynamic analytics solution that allows you to incorporate, analyze and
visualize unlimited data-set combinations from any source, through an
application that can be deployed in a matter of days, and at a fraction
of the cost this level of analytics traditionally has required,” said
Lonnie Wills, CloudTrigger founder and CEO.

The powerful G2Analytics platform dynamically manages changes in data,
producing dynamic dashboards, reports and data warehousing, making it
possible to visualize data from multiple sources, across multiple
platforms and delivered globally.

Traditionally, bringing together diverse data for analytics reporting
has involved man-years of effort for companies with large IT
infrastructures, which has limited mid-sized and smaller companies from
access to actionable analytics and business intelligence. Now, companies
of any size can manage terabytes of data and transactional volume
between systems, along with data visualization and analytics presented
in near real-time dashboards.

Key to the G2Analytics system is a proprietary CloudTrigger data array
that features flexible and dynamic data retrieval, allowing companies to
add, delete or change datasets within analytic reporting without
breaking links to the data. G2Analytics leverages the IBM technology
stack, which delivers best-in-class analytics and data warehousing
capabilities.

“With G2Analytics, your dashboards are fluid. It’s no problem to change
the data set you’ve initially selected for reporting. You can pull or
add data quickly without implementing a data rebuild, without damaging
the integrity of the data, or blowing up links that are crucial to other
reporting systems,” said Wills.

G2Analytics can be implemented in days with existing systems and coupled
with other cloud-based systems, including industry-standard CRM
solutions.

The system also “democratizes” business intelligence by making it
possible for companies to put the power of BI into the hands of all
employees, with G2Analytics’ dynamic dashboards and data visualization
available to an entire company through the web and mobile platforms.

“Realistically, until now, only IT analysts and a few executives have
had access to business intelligence,” Wills said. “Even then, data
wasn’t visualized for quick analysis and action. G2Analytics visual
dashboards give you accessed to key analytics whether you’re an
executive in a corner office, or a salesperson in the field. Everyone
can have access to information that helps them make smart business
decisions and be more effective in their job anytime, anywhere.”

Another issue casting a cloud across access to data is the explosive
growth of data, as detailed in a Gartner report forecasting dataflow
into mid-sized companies to increase 800% over the next five years, with
80% of the data coming from unstructured sources.

“First, it’s a challenge to categorize the data, but at the same time
it’s an opportunity to take advantage of incredible new levels of data
to inform better decisions,” Wills said.

G2Analytics also can incorporate location analytics through
CloudTrigger’s G2Maps, the market’s most robust and intuitive way to
geographically visualize data. Utilizing ESRI technology, G2Maps is the
first enterprise-class geographic information system (GIS) offered in
the cloud, and is customizable to include analytic overlays or filters
such as demographics, and market segmentation or penetration.

CloudTrigger specializes in analytics solutions that incorporate cloud
technologies and data from a variety of legacy and cloud systems. In
decades of system integration experience, the CloudTrigger G2Services
team has implemented more than 3,000 cloud-based systems for small and
mid-size businesses, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies. For
information, visit www.cloudtrigger.com.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudtrigger-launches-business-intelligence-breakthrough-141500121.html

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        Barbara Mazer Gross, 888-643-5778 x346
        Company Development Officer

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tessitura-network-completes-business-intelligence-suite-for-the-arts-and-cultural-sector-and-provides-it-at-no-charge-for-tessitura-licensees-2012-05-01

        CONTACT: Geeknet Media Relations Contact:
        Matt Carollo, mcarollo@geek.net
        Phone: (646)461-6047
        Investor Relations Contact:
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        Todd Friedman, GKNT@blueshirtgroup.com
        Phone: (415) 217-7722

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/slashdot-launches-business-intelligence-website-for-it-pros-2012-05-01

        CloudTrigger
        Lonnie Wills, CEO, 858-356-5201
        Lonnie.wills@cloudtrigger.com 

www.cloudtrigger.com            

Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cloudtrigger-launches-business-intelligence-breakthrough-with-g2analytics-2012-05-01

I’ve just had the email that it’s time to participate in the BI Survey yet again. Here’s the link to use:

https://digiumenterprise.com/answer?link=981-EVF8ZE8Z

As a participant, you will:
•    Receive a summary of the results from the full survey
•    Be entered into a draw to win one of ten $50 Amazon vouchers
•    Ensure that your experiences are included in the final analyses

Getting this invite reminded me I didn’t get around to blogging about the findings of the BI Survey 10, even though I got sent a copy late last year. This is a bit of an oversight on my part because there are always plenty of interesting facts to be found in there, for example:

• Out of all the BI tools looked at, SSAS is the joint least likely to be subjected to a competitive evaluation; even so when it is part of a competitive evaluation with other products it has an above-average win-rate.
• When looking at reasons why SSAS wins competitive evaluations, its performance comes out top; ‘vendor did a better sales job’ is at the bottom of the list.
• Proclarity is still used as a front-end for SSAS by almost 20% of the customers surveyed, which explains why this is still one of the most popular posts on my blog…

Hopefully PowerPivot will be included in the survey this year because I’d be very interested to see how it scores.

Last of all, one cool thing that you get with the BI Survey (which is highly appropriate given the subject matter) is an online BI tool called the BI Survey Analyzer to help you explore the data:

It would be nice to be able to download all the survey results in, say, csv format so you could import them into your BI tool of choice but I suppose that might be pushing things a little bit – it would make it too easy to steal the data!

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During the SAS Global Forum this past week, SAS offered several demos on mobile technology including:

• Michael Hecht, SAS, JMP iPad App Super Demo
• Chris Hemedinger hosted a Live Tech Talk on Tuesday that covered the new SAS Visual Analytics Explorer with demos on Microsoft Surface and iPad Apps

Remember everyone is using mobile devices and management continues to request access to results this way. But did you know that with a basic SAS license (yes, even BASE SAS users with a PC only license) can generate awesome reports for consumption by mobile devices. For example, during the conference this week, SAS Employee Michael Drutar presented paper 240-2012 that covers integrating Google Spreadsheets and SAS ODS to offer a mechanism for mobile data entry

For you to get started with this technology, I would suggest starting with an old paper – yes from 2008 talking about (not the fruit) Blackberries. LeRoy Bessler goes step by step through resizing graphical output into tiny graphs.

/*Hint #1*/
goptions reset=all dev=gif
gsfname=gout gsfmode=replace
ypixels=300 xpixels=500;

Next, set up SMTP connection from your machine to successfully send emails out. Included is SAS Sample 19767 which explains the sasv9.cfg changes required to estabilish the connection.

/*Hint #2*/
   -emailsys SMTP
   -emailhost your.smtpemail.server.com
   -emailport 25

And if your users would prefer text messages or better yet multi-media text with graphs rather than emailed graphs, use the email address equivalent of the text device in your to= statement. A quick search on google.com resulted in this website from SlapStick.com that lists off the various vendors email domains (such as Verzion = phonenumber@vtext.com and ATT = phonenumber@txt.att.net).

For users fortunate to have more licenses there are even more options.

1. SAS Stored Processes (SAS Integration Technologies)
   In my 2nd book “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes”, there is an entire example that sends an ondemand graphical report to email addresses supplied when requesting the stored process. And this week during the conference, Falko Schulz, also of SAS, wrote 011-2012 that describes how to use jQuery and jQTouch to interact with SAS Stored Processes from a mobile device.
2. SAS Business Intelligence
   SAS joined forces with ROAMBI to supply iPad/iPhone applications to users interested in interacting with data remotely and securely. Lisa Pappas, SAS Global Product Marketing Specialists, discusses this capability in two blog posts.
   Boost your BI Adoption Rates Part 1 and Part 2
3. JMP
   Michael Hecht (part of the original JMP development team) wrote two posts in March about moving data and results into the iPad. Neato!
   Getting Data to the iPad and Sharing Your Results

For tips on what NOT to do for Mobile implementations, check out this Smart Data Collective post on 10 Don’ts for Delivering Mobile Business Intelligence. It’s not about making everything available on that tiny mobile device but giving users a friendly interface to get actionable information when they need it.

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