DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

The Tessitura Network, the leading provider of technology, services and
learning community for the arts and cultural sector, is pleased to
announce a new tool that completes its Business Intelligence Suite.
Tessitura Dashboards™, included with Tessitura Software at no charge,
provide an executive view of key performance indicators and enable users
to see a high-level strategic snapshot of the most important information
about their business. Users can easily create their own individual
Dashboards with included configurable widgets by using an intuitive
web-based interface.

Tessitura Dashboards are the capstone of the complete Tessitura Business
Intelligence Suite, which includes tactical intelligence via more than
200 highly configurable standard reports and analytical intelligence via
T-Stats™, an advanced data mining tool that is also included at no cost
to Tessitura Software license holders. T-Stats enables users to create
their own analysis on the fly, allowing them to add or remove fields and
filter for specific values, as well as create graphs, charts and
geographic maps at the touch of a button. Janna Ellis at Yale Repertory
Theatre recently commented: “T-Stats saved my weekend! I had a ton of
research to do for a project. I was sure I was going to be working all
weekend putting it all together, but retrieved it from T-Stats in 30
minutes!” The results of Tessitura analysis can automatically be saved
as lists for use for targeted marketing.

Because Tessitura Software is a unified platform for all departments
within an organization, the Tessitura Business Intelligence Suite,
provided at no charge to all Tessitura license holders, offers the
unparalleled ability to analyze data in real-time in order to recognize
trends and make important decisions. Jack Rubin, President of the
Tessitura Network comments on the full Business Intelligence Suite, “by
being succinct, intuitive, cross-functional and flexible, these tools
aid in operations, analysis and strategic decision making in order to
help the many arts and cultural organization in the Tessitura Network
meet their organizational objectives.”

About Tessitura Network Inc.

More than 400 theaters, orchestras, performing arts centers, university
arts-affiliated departments, museums, festivals, dance and opera
companies are members of the Tessitura Network. Tessitura Network
organizations are located in the United States, Australia, Canada,
Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. As a non-profit corporation
governed by an elected board of Network participants, the company is
focused on improving how it can best serve its members rather than a
profit motive. The mission also encourages and enables knowledge and
best practice sharing between and among its open community of users.

Tessitura Software is the flagship product of the Tessitura Network and
provides a unified platform for all departments within an organization
to manage customer relationships, ticketing, marketing, subscriptions,
fundraising, memberships, reporting and Web transactions. Deployment of
Tessitura Software is either via the Network hosted RAMP™ option or via
in-house operated servers. The Tessitura Network also offers services
such as N-Scan™ ticket scanning for access control, no charge
print-at-home capabilities, express web integration and more. All
Tessitura Network members receive 24×7 support and have access to a
comprehensive included knowledge base.

For more information about Tessitura Network, please contact Barbara
Mazer Gross, Marketing Manager, bmazergross@tessituranetwork.com,
(888) 643-5778 x346 or visit www.tessituranetwork.com.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tessitura-network-completes-business-intelligence-102000293.html

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Jaspersoft, maker of the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, has teamed with VMware to integrate Jaspersoft’s BI Platform with the Cloud Foundry™ open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Jaspersoft’s BI for PaaS integrates with Cloud Foundry to provide easy and powerful reporting to enable data-driven, cloud-based application development. Studies show that decisions based on these data-driven applications create significant, measurable increases in output and productivity.  The cloud can enable organizations to harness large amounts of data with greater flexibility, while supporting more data-driven applications. Together with Cloud Foundry, Jaspersoft’s cloud BI capabilities can enable better decision-making on a choice of public, private, or micro clouds.

Cloud-based systems for ERP, CRM, SCM, eCommerce and other transactional systems are becoming increasingly widespread due to the efficiencies of cloud-based infrastructure.  These systems generate and capture large volumes of data, but creating data-driven applications to navigate this data and derive meaningful insights can be challenging. Combining Jaspersoft BI with Cloud Foundry provides developers with an easy, scalable and cost-effective PaaS deployment method for enabling data-driven applications.  This allows enterprises to quickly deploy analytic applications to uncover patterns in their data, driving improved organizational performance while gaining better access to information for more informed decision-making.

With Cloud Foundry, VMware offers a competitive PaaS solution, built on open source technologies.  Jaspersoft will offer an open source edition of its flagship Jaspersoft BI Suite, pre-configured for Cloud Foundry, which supports the ability to access relational databases like MySQL and Big Data services like MongoDB. Jaspersoft provides native access to the leading Big Data products, including MongoDB, for which it recently announced the industry’s first BI connector.

“As VMware pairs with leading organizations to build out the Cloud Foundry™ ecosystem, we are pleased to work with Jaspersoft to integrate its business intelligence platform with Cloud Foundry,” said Jerry Chen, Vice President, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. “Adding Jaspersoft’s robust BI to Cloud Foundry enables developers to have a powerful and flexible way to deploy and scale data-driven applications quickly, and glean insights from those applications, without restricting the use of infrastructure.”

“Jaspersoft is thrilled to partner with VMware to build out business intelligence for PaaS,” added Karl Van den Bergh, Jaspersoft Vice President of Product and Alliances. “Cloud Foundry™ brings amazing flexibility to developers by allowing them access to many cloud technologies and infrastructures. As application development continues to shift to the cloud, we will see open PaaS BI further strengthen the development and deployment of data-driven applications.”

For more information on Jaspersoft’s new BI for PaaS offering, please visit https://www.jaspersoft.com/paas-business-intelligence and view the Jaspersoft/VMware webinar at http://www.jaspersoft.com/jaspersoft-cloudfoundry-webinar.

Resources

• Download Jaspersoft for VMware Cloud Foundry http://jasperforge.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php/Cloudfoundry
• The Jaspersoft BI Suite
• Jaspersoft on Twitter
• Jaspersoft on Facebook
• CEO Brian Gentile’s Open Book on BI blog

About Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise of self-service BI at scale. Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a Community of over 275,000 registered members, Jaspersoft’s open source BI software has been downloaded over 16 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 130,000 data-driven applications spanning 15,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world. For more information visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

VMware and Cloud Foundry are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jaspersoft-teams-vmware-deliver-business-120000491.html

IRVINE, CA–(Marketwire -05/01/12)-
Northwood Advisors — a business intelligence (BI) and decision systems advisory firm that helps companies design and implement BI strategy, roadmap, governance and best practices for increased efficiency and greater ROI — has launched in Orange County and is already amassing an impressive client roster, which it’s guiding through BI strategy, roadmap and governance. Northwood Advisors‘ founder and managing partner Myron Weber brings more than 20 years of diverse business experience, systems thinking, insight and creativity to his approach. The company has opted to focus purely on advisory services rather than pushing any particular products, and it has become known for its ability to facilitate communication between teams — from the C-suite staff to IT, and everyone in between. Organizations such as ADP, Charming Shoppes Inc., and the Chickasaw Nation are turning to Northwood for help in navigating business intelligence initiatives.

“Establishing sustainable processes, tools and technology that offer immediate access to important information is more than a critical internal function; it’s a competitive advantage that improves the effectiveness, trajectory and valuation of any business,” says Weber, producer of the “Real Time Decisions Webcast” blog and podcast that discusses business decision systems. “Many of our competitors focus on the technology rather than taking a holistic view of the way a company works, but technology is just a tool. We focus on big picture strategy, because the resulting flow of communications is more important than the products you use to get there. We work with clients in any phase of business intelligence, and we emphasize problem-solving and strategy mapping to make sure that critical information flows and is shared among departments and decision-makers.”

Northwood Advisors’ team has more than 20 years of experience working with many Fortune 500 companies. Clients turn to Northwood Advisors for help when they struggle to get the information they need to answer business questions and make strategic and operational decisions. Many come to Northwood after experiencing difficulty pulling together spreadsheets, disconnected tools, broken processes and ineffective organizational systems to provide reporting, analysis, planning and forecasting to better run their businesses. They tap Northwood Advisors to close these gaps and apply technology and support decision-making with improved information-sharing plans.

“Myron Weber from Northwood Advisors has played an instrumental role in the strategy, roadmap, and successful implementation of business intelligence at the Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce,” says Patrick Neeley, CFO of Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce. “As a trusted advisor, Myron was involved right from the start in the launch of our Performance Solution Center. We appreciate that he has deep technical understanding and, at the same time, is able to think strategically, as well as interact credibly with management and staff at all levels of the organization. The contribution of Northwood Advisors helps us drive higher ROI from every dollar spent on BI.”

The company’s commitment to partnering with clients makes working with Northwood like having high-level business intelligence in-house. BI thought leaders are accessible to clients throughout the process, so clients have access to expert guidance as they roll out and implement new systems and strategies.

Northwood Advisors also offers on-site training programs designed to equip entire teams with the knowledge and tools for effective and sustainable business intelligence strategy.

ABOUT NORTHWOOD ADVISORS: Based in Irvine, Calif., Northwood Advisors is a business intelligence and decision systems advisory firm that helps companies design and implement BI strategy, roadmap, governance and best practices for increased efficiency and greater ROI. Northwood Advisors’ powerful on-site training and consulting program allows clients to create departmental alignment and mutual buy-in with key stakeholders of any business intelligence initiative to build a path of least resistance and most profitability. Northwood Advisors’ training is unique, focused and implementable and will equip any team with the practical knowledge and tools for effective and sustainable business intelligence strategy, governance and roadmap. For more information, visit http://www.northwoodadvisors.com.

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Beyond Fifteen Communications, Inc.
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Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/northwood-advisors-launch-brings-business-183900543.html

Birst, a San Francisco-based business intelligence company with its roots in the cloud, has raised $26 million from Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures. Until today, the company, which launched in 2004, has been relatively mum about its funding other than noting that it raised more than $10 million at some point in 2008. But Birst’s recent boldness on the product side has paid off, so perhaps it figures a little chest-pounding around its investors can’t hurt either.

The company has always been among the leaders in the world of software-as-a-service BI offerings, competing against the likes of GoodData and Bime Analytics, but in late 2011 it began venturing outside its comfort zone by actually selling software. First was an on-premise version of its flagship BI application in September, followed by its very own in-memory database in December. Those decisions were bold — selling software is an entirely different business from selling cloud services — but Birst CEO Brad Peters said at the time he was confident they’d pay off because the company was applying the lessons of SaaS design to traditional software.

It appears he was right. When discussing Birst’s latest funding during a recent call, Peters said the in-memory database “has been a significant chunk of our revenue in the last two quarters” and that on-premise software in general now comprises about half the company’s revenue. Overall, Birst has seen revenue double over the past year and its customer count rise by more than 40 percent.

In 2012, however, no BI story would be complete without a big data hook, and Birst certainly has one. Yes, it’s got the Hadoop integration that pretty much every BI vendor has in order to help users actually analyze all their unstructured data, but it also has a deep integration with analytic database provider ParAccel that Peters said was directly responsible for multiple customer wins in the last quarter. By the year’s end, he suggested, Birst is planning to release its own product that changes the way big data is done.

Having the right tools available for doing big data jobs is critical, Peters said, because big data has changed the way data analysis is done. Whereas it used to be like mining for gold with a pick axe and grabbing the big hunks of unrefined material, it’s now like strip mining in that companies must pore through entire mountains of data just to find the relatively small amounts of valuable material, which they then need to refine.

When one looks at the size of the overall BI market — $12 billion and growing — it’s easy to see why Birst and its investors are confident. There’s a large population of customers that want great BI and big data tools but that can’t afford the likes of Teradata, IBM or SAP software or hardware. In the on-premise world, however, Birst does have to concern itself with next-generation vendors Tableau and QlikTech, which are both making hay at the expense of incumbent BI vendors.

Which is why Birst thinks its cloud roots remain very important. In the cloud, said Peters, “the entrenched players really have no existing answer.”

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