PARIS, May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Actian
Corporation and Business Decision, an international Consulting and
Systems Integration (CSI) company, leader in Business Intelligence (BI),
today announced the signature of their strategic partner agreement.
Combined with covering technology solutions and marketing efforts, the
strategic agreement bolsters both companies’ commitment to provide
customers with more intuitive and affordable high performance analytics.
Customers will also benefit from the power of Actian’s Action Apps,
which are lightweight, consumer-style applications that automate
business actions triggered by real-time changes in data.

As a part of the new agreement, the two companies will enable customers
to reap the benefits of instantaneous business insight using Vectorwise,
the industry’s record-breaking analytic database engine. For many firms,
the data analytics solutions available today are either
price-prohibitive or do not satisfy users’ need for performance and
agility. Therefore, there is an underserved majority of enterprises who
will benefit by deploying Vectorwise, where they can divert investment
from expensive back-end IT infrastructures to front-line business users,
and empower them to glean accurate business intelligence at the speed of
thought.

Business Intelligence has evolved from basic reports and dashboards to
Actionable BI using mobile tools that give business managers the power
to react swiftly to fast moving events, dramatically changing the way
companies do business. As a result, in addition to Vectorwise, Actian
and Business Decision will offer customers fast insight on their
mobile devices using Actian’s Action Apps. Customers will be able to run
intuitive reports and dashboards on their mobile devices and act
instantaneously to address the changing needs of any situation. Action
Apps is cutting-edge technology that makes it possible to understand
individual users’ data and provide an appropriate response quickly and
reliably.

“Our customers are facing new challenges — they need to manage big
volumes of data from multiple sources and then deliver relevant
information to the right person, at the right place and at the right
moment. By providing powerful analytics and interactive reporting of big
data volumes at a lower cost, Vectorwise delivers unprecedented insight
to medium and larger organizations across various industries at a very
competitive price,” explains Jean-Michel Franco, Business Solution
Director at Business Decision. “Actian has been a partner of Business
Decision for many years and we’re delighted to be able to build
further upon our relationship.”

“Since we launched Vectorwise in France in 2011, the solution has gained
significant traction in the analytics space. Business Decision has
expressed an interest in offering Vectorwise, and we are now ready to
launch our joint proposition into the market,” commented Christian Raza,
Sales Director France for Actian. “Actian also intends to recruit new
channel partners to allow all organizations to benefit from the great
potential of Vectorwise for their Business Intelligence and analytical
projects. Our new partners will be BI experts that ensure customers get
the best value for the money from their investment in Actian solutions.”

About Business Decision

Business Decision is a global Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI)
company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business,
Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Enterprise Solutions, as
well as Management Consulting. Business Decision contributes to the
success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance.
The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise
and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors.
Located in 19 countries, Business Decision currently employs more than
2800 people worldwide. Additional information is available at group.businessdecision.com

About Actian

Actian Corporation enables organizations to transact, analyze and take
action on big data. Actian is the first to unveil a cloud development
platform for building Action Apps, lightweight consumer-style
applications that automate actions triggered by real-time changes in
data. Actian also incites action for 10,000 customers worldwide with
Vectorwise, an analytical database, and Ingres, the mission-critical
OLTP database. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New
York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Melbourne. For more
information, visit
www.actian.com .
Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook and Twitter.

Actian, Cloud Action Platform, Ingres, and Vectorwise are trademarks of
Actian Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks,
and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

SOURCE: Actian Corporation

        
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BOSTON, MA, May 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
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the publication of new research reports from its Customer Management
Technology, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business
Intelligence, and Technology Markets research practices.

“Customer Experience Management in the Financial Service Industry:
Balancing Regulations with Customer Delight” research study, authored
by Omer Minkara, Senior Research Associate for the Aberdeen Group
Customer Management Technology research practice, details actionable
steps for financial services firms to build fruitful customer
relationships while ensuring compliance with tougher regulatory
measures. “Financial services firms are not helpless; companies that
adopt Customer Experience Management (CEM) best practices, including
personalization and customer-centricity, are able to balance the
impact of financial regulations with improved customer delight,” says
Minkara. This report provides practical guidelines on how financial
services firms can improve key measures such as customer lifetime
value and return on marketing investments through adopting
Best-in-Class processes and enablers within their business
activities. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, made
possible in part by Avanade and Achieve Global, visit:

http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182cid=7706camp=2 .

“The State of Master Data Management, 2012: Building the Foundation
for a Better Enterprise” written by Nathaniel Rowe, Research Analyst
for Aberdeen’s Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence
practices, examines the challenges organizations are facing in
managing their critical business records, and the tools they are
using to ensure high quality data is provided to their employees.
Aberdeen’s research shows a startling disparity between how important
master data is to business operations and how little support it often
receives from senior management and budget committees. However,
organizations are making strides to improve their master data quality
and, as a result, are seeing dramatic reductions in data errors and
improvements in employee efficiency. To obtain a complimentary copy
of this report, made possible in part by Stibo Systems and TIBCO,
visit:

http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182cid=7883camp=2 .

Also written by Nathaniel Rowe “United We Stand, Divided We Fall: The
Need for Standardizing and Centralizing Master Data” reveals that the
two leading pain points surrounding master data are not having an
authoritative system of record, and poor data quality causing
inaccurate business decisions. The organizations that have directly
addressed these problems by centralizing their critical records and
applying rigorous data standards and quality controls. Aberdeen’s
research indicates these strategies have had a dramatic impact on
their business performance, as these organizations out-performed
their peers in speed of business decisions, employee efficiency,
customer satisfaction and product visibility. To obtain a
complimentary copy of this report, visit:

http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182cid=7938camp=2 .

“Managing the TCO of BI: The Path to ROI is Paved with Adoption”
prepared by Michael Lock, Research Director, Business Intelligence
and Technology Markets, examines how leading organizations are
managing the full spectrum of costs when deploying and managing
business intelligence (BI) solutions. Focusing on the efficient use
of internal IT and Line-of-Business resources, companies are now more
judiciously utilizing hardware, software, and services to facilitate
a more effective analytical environment. The research demonstrates
how companies who have achieved a broader adoption of Business
Intelligence (BI) and a deeper engagement in analytical activity are
enjoying a lower cost-per-user of BI and reaping the benefit of a
higher return on their investment. To obtain a complimentary copy of
this report, made available in part by Birst and Talend, visit:

http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182cid=7884camp=2 .

About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company

Aberdeen provides fact-based research and market intelligence that
delivers demonstrable results. Having queried more than 30,000
companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is positioned to educate
users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling
sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As
the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations
turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions.

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