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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : Ben Stinner | In : Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire -05/22/12)-
Relay Technology Management (Relay TM) today announced the official launch of Business Development Live (BD Live!) — a new unified, real-time data visualization, comparative asset analysis and tracking platform for the life sciences industry. Relay TM supports life science business development and licensing professionals validate opportunities and discover new assets.

“BD Live! provides access to a comprehensive information repository on biopharma assets and other relevant entities and utilizes cutting-edge data visualization technologies to create interactive dashboards that dramatically improve the user experience,” says David Greenwald, Ph.D., Relay TM’s co-founder and managing director. “We are excited to open the platform more broadly after having successfully tested our innovative approach with a number of leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. We look forward to working with customers to fulfill their business intelligence needs.”

“Identifying and evaluating assets, and finding the most appropriate partners for pharmaceutical companies is time-consuming, resource-intensive and often based on partial information,” shares Peter Collins, business intelligence director at Nature Publishing Group, which created a collaborative partnership with Relay and made a strategic investment in the company in 2011. “Relay is uniquely positioned to bring much needed objective data aggregation and analysis to speed up the drug development process.”

Relay TM complements competitive intelligence by assessing the relative attractiveness of life science assets — drugs, targets, researchers, and institutions, historically and in real time, from one screen. BD Live! is offered as a Software-as-a-Service subscription service with the following components:

  • Comprehensive, real-time life sciences industry business intelligence: BD Live! aggregates and visualizes data from a comprehensive list of life science sources, including 27 million data points and growing — representing a combination of scientific and business literature, technology transfer data, and clinical trial data. The platform harvests these data sources for daily updates and latest industry developments.
  • Unified life sciences trend monitoring and comparative asset analysis: BD Live! offers real-time, analytical and customizable dashboards on drug profiles and targets, researchers and institutions based on their relative attractiveness within specific therapeutic areas. This enables life sciences professionals to rapidly compare related categories, such as emerging drug targets and approaches in a particular therapeutic area.

BD Live! enables comparative asset analysis via an industry-first Relative Valuation Index (RVI). The Relay RVI accounts for the stage of asset development and factors in competitive environment, scientific evidence, investments, proof of mechanism, research momentum, FDA and transactional trends, among other variables. The Relay RVI is insulated from popular opinion to ensure robust and objective assessment of assets.

“We are building Relay with the vision for it to become the Bloomberg of the life sciences industry,” adds Brigham Hyde, Ph.D., co-founder and managing director of Relay TM. “Much like Bloomberg helped to streamline the bond market and bring an objective standard to bond valuations, Relay aims to bring data-driven decision making to the life sciences industry.”

About Relay Technology Management
Relay Technology Management (http://www.relaytm.com) is a life sciences trend analytics and asset valuation software provider. The company’s Relay Innovation Engine software platform powers BD Live! to support business development and corporate strategy professionals in the life science industry confirm the attractiveness of assets under consideration and unearth new technologies. Relay aims to increase the efficiency of drug development by offering a transparent, objective and scalable approach to rapid asset analysis.

Follow Relay TM on Relay blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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Phone: 314-308-5625

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Don Urbanowicz to Host "Top 10 Value-Drivers Strategics Look for in Pre-Revenue Startups" Session at Elsevier Business …

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : Ben Stinner | In : Analytics

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire -05/22/12)-
Elsevier Business Intelligence, the medtech industry’s leading provider of strategic partnership and investment conferences, announced today that 30-year device industry veteran Don Urbanowicz, Principal, Urbanowicz Consulting, LLC, will host an early-stage start-up investment strategy session at the Investment in Innovation (IN3) Medical Device 360° Boston’ investor conference, June 27-29, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Boston.

Urbanowicz, former senior-level executive with Stryker Orthopaedics, Sofamor Danek, Aircast and Smith Nephew, will host a one-hour session on Thursday evening, June 28th, titled “Top 10 Value-Drivers Strategics Look for in Pre-Revenue Startups,” which will examine in detail what medical device acquirers or licensors are specifically looking for in pre-revenue companies, and describe how startups can best position their company and technology with each prospective buyer.

IN3 Medical Device 360° Boston will also feature presentations by more than 25 development- to commercial-stage startups that are seeking funding and/or strategic partnership, developing products covering the spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic device markets. Presenters confirmed to date include Aerolase, CoolSpine, Genomind, Harbor MedTech, MGI Medical, Neuronetrix, Poiesis Medical, Soft Tissue Regeneration, StnDrd Infusion, Stroma Medical, Suspension Orthopaedic Solutions, Thermimage, ThermopeutiX, Titan Spine, and Vertiflex.

The event also will feature an outstanding agenda of panels, presentations and networking sessions with industry thought leaders discussing the most pressing issues facing the global device industry in 2012 and beyond. Confirmed participating speakers include senior-level strategic decision makers from Ascent Biomedical Ventures, Boston Scientific, Covidien, Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, DePuy Mitek and Codman/Johnson Johnson, Fidelity Biosciences, NGN Capital, NMT Capital, Novartis Venture Funds, Polaris Venture Partners, Siemens Venture Capital, Smith Nephew Endoscopy, SV Life Sciences Advisers, Wright Medical Technology, and many more. Interactive panel topics will include: Intellectual Property’s Role in Start-Up Valuations, What Big Companies Want to See in a Start-Up Before Buying; Complying with the New Physician Sunshine Law; and, Medtech Investing: Hear What It Takes to Get a VC to Say Yes. In addition, Robert Pearson, president of W20 Group, will give a special Social Media Keynote Presentation, and a networking cocktail reception will be held the evening of June 28th. Partnering software will be available to all registered attendees prior to the conference so that one-on-one onsite meetings can be pre-arranged.

Emerging medtech companies that would like to apply to present in Boston should contact Kayleen Kell at 949-797-7142, or email k.kell@elsevier.com.

The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Boston, centrally located in downtown Boston. Co-sponsors include Ronald Trahan Associates Inc., AptivSolutions, Current Partnering, Medmarc with The Hartford and Biomedic-Insure, UBM TechInsights, FreeMind, Scisive, Mass Medical Angels, Life Science Intelligence, and marketwire. Visit www.IN3Boston.com for full conference and registration details. EBI will be hosting one additional IN3 Medical Device 360° event in 2012, its Summit-San Francisco, October 15-17; visit http://www.elsevierbi.com/conferences for more information.

About Elsevier Business Intelligence
Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI), an Elsevier company built on the heritage of F-D-C Reports, Windhover Information and Medtech Insight, is a global information supplier providing business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry. Through a range of products including publications, conferences, databases and reports, EBI places biopharma and medical device professionals, and those who focus on these industries, at the forefront of knowledge, by providing the perfect combination of news and information together with penetrating insight and analysis. EBI (www.elsevierbi.com) has offices in the U.S. in Bridgewater, N.J.; Norwalk, Conn.; Rockville, Md.; and Irvine, Calif.

Ronald Trahan, APR
Ronald Trahan Associates Inc.
508-359-4005, x108

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-urbanowicz-host-top-10-133100932.html

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AdVoice: Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside in

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : Ben Stinner | In : Analytics

0fe03 Listen 300x300 AdVoice: Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside inWith the digital revolution and various social media platforms, data equals intelligence and intelligence is wisdom. Social business intelligence is all about wisdom—the wisdom to listen, interpret and act authentically, tapping into the wants and needs of the billion-plus consumers who openly express their opinions online.

In traditional research, companies elicit feedback through periodic surveys and then enhance their findings through focus groups. Both have inherent limitations. Surveys are episodic and offer inauthentic information, since the questions themselves alter the answers given, creating a distance from reality.

Focus groups suffer from the most human of all issues: The loudest person in the group wins and sways others through a combination of charisma and decibels. In both cases, the information rendered is faulty. When companies combine this result with internal business data, they glean the business intelligence they use to make fundamental decisions about product development, honing existing services, and where and how much to invest. Unfortunately, traditional BI is imperfect, making acting on feedback a game of guesswork. Million-dollar decisions should be based on real-time and authentic data, not “spaghetti on the wall.”

Social data offers a way out of this problem. As consumers offer opinions, expose their likes and dislikes, and express raw emotions, they produce a treasure trove of intelligence for brands. Socializing the feedback process offers instant advantages: You gain real feedback in real time and can make data-driven decisions on a dime, translating feedback into informed action at lightning speed.

Underpinned by technology and with a team of smart people ready to listen, interpret and act, social business intelligence can offer unparalleled advantages as you make new product decisions, develop in new markets and abandon unprofitable areas in favor of growth. When you make advertising and media decisions, and socialize your systems and incorporate social data into everything you do, your decision systems are enhanced and provide a more immediate ROI.

Classic business intelligence yields data from the inside out. Social business intelligence works in real time and leverages powerful technology to offer you the outside-in view. Now there is no more excuse for navel-gazing. The outside world is at the tip of your fingers!

Paul Dunay is an award-winning B-to-B marketing expert with more than 20 years’ success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations. Dunay is the CMO of Networked Insights, a leader in social media analytics, and author of five “Dummies” books: “Facebook Marketing for Dummies” (Wiley 2009, 2011, 2012).

Follow him @PaulDunay

Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2012/05/22/social-business-intelligence-wisdom-from-the-outside-in/

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Relay Technology Management Launches Real-Time Business Intelligence and Data …

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : admin | In : Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Relay Technology Management (Relay TM) today announced the official
launch of Business Development Live (BD Live!) — a new unified,
real-time data visualization, comparative asset analysis and tracking
platform for the life sciences industry. Relay TM supports life
science business development and licensing professionals validate
opportunities and discover new assets.

“BD Live! provides access to a comprehensive information repository
on biopharma assets and other relevant entities and utilizes
cutting-edge data visualization technologies to create interactive
dashboards that dramatically improve the user experience,” says David
Greenwald, Ph.D., Relay TM’s co-founder and managing director. “We
are excited to open the platform more broadly after having
successfully tested our innovative approach with a number of leading
pharmaceutical and biotech companies. We look forward to working with
customers to fulfill their business intelligence needs.”

“Identifying and evaluating assets, and finding the most appropriate
partners for pharmaceutical companies is time-consuming,
resource-intensive and often based on partial information,” shares
Peter Collins, business intelligence director at Nature Publishing
Group, which created a collaborative partnership with Relay and made
a strategic investment in the company in 2011. “Relay is uniquely
positioned to bring much needed objective data aggregation and
analysis to speed up the drug development process.”

Relay TM complements competitive intelligence by assessing the
relative attractiveness of life science assets — drugs, targets,
researchers, and institutions, historically and in real time, from
one screen. BD Live! is offered as a Software-as-a-Service
subscription service with the following components:


        --  Comprehensive, real-time life sciences industry business intelligence:
            BD Live! aggregates and visualizes data from a comprehensive list of
            life science sources, including 27 million data points and growing --
            representing a combination of scientific and business literature,
            technology transfer data, and clinical trial data. The platform
            harvests these data sources for daily updates and latest industry
            developments.
        --  Unified life sciences trend monitoring and comparative asset analysis:
            BD Live! offers real-time, analytical and customizable dashboards on
            drug profiles and targets, researchers and institutions based on their
            relative attractiveness within specific therapeutic areas. This
            enables life sciences professionals to rapidly compare related
            categories, such as emerging drug targets and approaches in a
            particular therapeutic area.

BD Live! enables comparative asset analysis via an industry-first
Relative Valuation Index (RVI). The Relay RVI accounts for the stage
of asset development and factors in competitive environment,
scientific evidence, investments, proof of mechanism, research
momentum, FDA and transactional trends, among other variables. The
Relay RVI is insulated from popular opinion to ensure robust and
objective assessment of assets.

“We are building Relay with the vision for it to become the Bloomberg
of the life sciences industry,” adds Brigham Hyde, Ph.D., co-founder
and managing director of Relay TM. “Much like Bloomberg helped to
streamline the bond market and bring an objective standard to bond
valuations, Relay aims to bring data-driven decision making to the
life sciences industry.”

About Relay Technology Management
Relay Technology Management
(
http://www.relaytm.com ) is a life sciences trend analytics and asset
valuation software provider. The company’s Relay Innovation Engine
software platform powers BD Live! to support business development and
corporate strategy professionals in the life science industry confirm
the attractiveness of assets under consideration and unearth new
technologies. Relay aims to increase the efficiency of drug
development by offering a transparent, objective and scalable
approach to rapid asset analysis.

Follow Relay TM on Relay blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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        Press contact:
        Andrea Squitieri
        Scratch Marketing + Media
        Email: Email Contact
        Phone: 314-308-5625

SOURCE: Relay Technology Management


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Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside in

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : admin | In : Analytics

8b773 Listen 300x300 Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside inWith the digital revolution and various social media platforms, data equals intelligence and intelligence is wisdom. Social business intelligence is all about wisdom—the wisdom to listen, interpret and act authentically, tapping into the wants and needs of the billion-plus consumers who openly express their opinions online.

In traditional research, companies elicit feedback through periodic surveys and then enhance their findings through focus groups. Both have inherent limitations. Surveys are episodic and offer inauthentic information, since the questions themselves alter the answers given, creating a distance from reality.

Focus groups suffer from the most human of all issues: The loudest person in the group wins and sways others through a combination of charisma and decibels. In both cases, the information rendered is faulty. When companies combine this result with internal business data, they glean the business intelligence they use to make fundamental decisions about product development, honing existing services, and where and how much to invest. Unfortunately, traditional BI is imperfect, making acting on feedback a game of guesswork. Million-dollar decisions should be based on real-time and authentic data, not “spaghetti on the wall.”

Social data offers a way out of this problem. As consumers offer opinions, expose their likes and dislikes, and express raw emotions, they produce a treasure trove of intelligence for brands. Socializing the feedback process offers instant advantages: You gain real feedback in real time and can make data-driven decisions on a dime, translating feedback into informed action at lightning speed.

Underpinned by technology and with a team of smart people ready to listen, interpret and act, social business intelligence can offer unparalleled advantages as you make new product decisions, develop in new markets and abandon unprofitable areas in favor of growth. When you make advertising and media decisions, and socialize your systems and incorporate social data into everything you do, your decision systems are enhanced and provide a more immediate ROI.

Classic business intelligence yields data from the inside out. Social business intelligence works in real time and leverages powerful technology to offer you the outside-in view. Now there is no more excuse for navel-gazing. The outside world is at the tip of your fingers!

Paul Dunay is an award-winning B-to-B marketing expert with more than 20 years’ success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations. Dunay is the CMO of Networked Insights, a leader in social media analytics, and author of five “Dummies” books: “Facebook Marketing for Dummies” (Wiley 2009, 2011, 2012).

Follow him @PaulDunay

Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2012/05/22/social-business-intelligence-wisdom-from-the-outside-in/

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SAP Shares Five-Point BI Improvement Plan

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : admin | In : Analytics

SAP Hana and a new visual discovery tool, Visual Intelligence, took center stage at SAPPRIRE last week. But more noteworthy to me is the fact that SAP is once again innovating in business intelligence (BI), not just integrating products. Specifically, SAP outlined plans to innovate in five areas: core BI, creative analysis, mobile, analytics, and social.

Visual Intelligence is a new desktop tool that lets Hana users visually explore and manipulate data. The tool is intended for power users, a key difference from the vendor’s lightweight, Web-based BusinessObjects Explorer visual discovery tool. A versionrelease of Visual Intelligence that uses Hana as the data source is generally available immediately and is included as part of the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite license. An individual, named-user-licensed release, not tied to the BI server, is planned but not yet finalized.

With the Hana in-memory database in production not-quite a year, only a few hundred customers can immediately make use of Visual Intelligence. SAP CTO Vishal Sikka cited 353 Hana projects, with 145 live deployments.

[ Want more on SAP's statistical analysis capabilities? Read SAP Steps Up Commitment To Predictive Analytics. ]

That’s just the beginning, as SAP has big plans for Hana and big plans for Visual Intelligence. SAP also announced a developer version of Hana available in the Amazon cloud, with more than 2,000 instances ready immediately. I expect this seeding approach to boost Hana’s uptake.

Visual Intelligence will gain wider market potential in June with the planned release of an upgrade supporting additional data sources such as Excel, flat files, and free-hand SQL (for Web Intelligence users who have been mourning the loss of that feature, I can imagine some resounding cheers!). A third release, expected by year end, will bring support for Universes, the vendor’s semantic layer. I hope it will support both for newer .UNX and older .UNV files, as SAP has offered with its new predictive-analytics software. Dual support may be harder to deliver, but it certainly helps with customer uptake.

Based on initial demonstrations, Visual Intelligence is ahead of some competitors on data-manipulation capabilities, automatically guessing at measures and dimensions, as well as hierarchies, such as time and geography. If the data is not clean, users can perform transformations with no scripting, a point of differentiation from QlikView. Data models can be saved back to Hana for other power users to access. It’s yet to be seen how well Visual Intelligence merges multiple data sources.

The breadth of visualizations–ranging from standard bar charts to newer tag clouds and trellis charts–seems to compare with some of the best-of-breed visual discovery tools such as Tableau Software and Tibco Spotfire. Lacking, though, is the ability to share discoveries while also preserving interactivity. A power user, for example, can email an image to another user, but Visual Intelligence does not yet have an ability to publish a collection of analyses as a type of dashboard or exploration view that decision-makers can then consume and interact with via an iPad or the Web. Expect these improvements to be added in the end-of-year release.

SAP’s improvements in dashboards and predictive analysis didn’t get stage time at SAPPHIRE, but they were the topic of one-on-one briefings and booth demos. Adam Binnie, VP of Business Intelligence Solutions, and Jason Rose, VP of Business Intelligence Marketing, outlined five areas where SAP has been executing well or intends to improve its capabilities:

1. BI core: Deliver significant upgrades–steps already taken through SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and the subsequent Feature Pack 3.

2. Creative BI: Provide fast time to value with tools like Visual Intelligence.

3. Mobile BI: Develop first for mobile users through SAP Mobile and Zen.

4. Extreme Analytics: Deliver big-data, real-time, and predictive capabilities with Hana, Sybase IQ, and Predictive Analysis.

5. Social: Capture decisions and leverage the network with tools like StreamWork.

SAP promises all of these improvements with minimal disruption, which is, of course, a nice vision. But for customers currently going through a BusinessObjects 4.0 migration, reality is a bit more disruptive, particularly for customers with large Desktop Intelligence deployments. Change is disruptive, like it or not; it’s more a matter of degree of disruption and the quality of the migration utilities.

Elaborating on how SAP is innovating in these five areas, SAP Mobile, for example, was showcased throughout the conference. SAP can claim leadership as a mobile applications and mobile development-platform provider, but the company’s mobile BI story is a mosaic, dependent on the device and the BI content. SAP has been caught up in the decline of Flash for animation (as well as the decline of RIM in mobile).

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) currently relies exclusively on Flash, but SAP recently published a statement of direction that points toward a new product, code-named Zen, planned for release this year. Zen will bring HTML5 and long-awaited drill-down capabilities to dashboards, but initially it will only handle SAP BW and Hana content. In this regard, the first release of Zen is mainly an improvement for current SAP Web Application Designer users. SAP has committed to maintaining and enhancing Dashboards, so I was also pleased to see an HTML5 version of the product at SAPPHIRE (expected in SP5 later this year).

SAP says Zen and Dashboards will eventually come together. One consultant aptly described the current mix as “the dashboard quagmire,” a valid criticism. I have been critical of SAP’s dashboarding products for years, so I’m also glad that SAP now has a plan to address current limitations.

SAP’s recently released Predictive Analysis software offers analytics based on the R statistical programming language. Hana Service Pack 4, released last week, adds native support for R algorithms.

BI collaboration is supported via SAP’s StreamWork interface, which was integrated with BusinessObjects 4.0 Feature Pack 3, currently in (beta) ramp up release. Users can directly annotate content and view discussion threads from within the SAP BusinessObjects BI Launchpad. Working within StreamWork, users can also import reports to support a decision process. A new ability to auto update such reports from within StreamWork will be useful say for weekly planning or strategy meetings. SAP Hana Service Pack 4 added support for analyzing unstructured information, such as social data.

Last year at this time, customers were waiting for SAP BusinessObjects 4.0, which was late, arriving three-years after the previous major release. One year later, there are improvements on multiple fronts, with SAP once again innovating in BI.

Cindi Howson is the founder of BI Scorecard , an independent analyst firm that advises companies on BI tool strategies and offers in-depth business intelligence product reviews.

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Posted on : 22-05-2012 | By : Ben Stinner | In : Analytics

When I was at SQL Saturday in Dublin a few weeks ago I sat in on a sponsor session given by red-gate and heard that they were working on their first tool for Analysis Services: SSAS Compare. Today it appeared on their labs site and you can download it to check it out yourself:
http://www.red-gate.com/labs/ssas-compare/index

Here’s what they have to say about it:

Red Gate SSAS Compare is a tool for Microsoft Business Intelligence professionals that generates XMLA scripts for partial or complete SSAS cube deployment.

Easily deliver updates from development through test and production, minimizing the time spent processing and validating changes.

It’s a very early release and therefore a bit buggy; in fact I haven’t been able to get it to work at all on my laptop (I suspect it doesn’t work with SSAS 2012). However I’m still very excited by the possibilities of this tool: quite a few of my customers have several versions of the same database, and need to find out how they differ and deploy the same changes to all of them. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

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