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Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced its launch in Latin America. International sales veteran Miguel Nhuch will lead the company’s efforts to expand in the region, delivering fast analytics, visualization and business intelligence with Spanish and Portuguese versions of its product.

Tableau will host educational events in Mexico City and Monterrey the week of June 4 and will host online webinars in Spanish and Portuguese the week of June 11. For the most up-to-date schedule and location, visit http://www.tableausoftware.com/the-tableau-experience.

“Companies in Latin America are facing the same challenges with traditional business intelligence platforms as the rest of the world,” said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. “We are bringing a disruptive new approach to business analytics to this growing region.”

Nhuch joins Tableau with more than 20 years of global sales and business development experience with companies such as Citrusleaf, Nominum, Weblogic and Forté Software.

“The Latin America economy has remained stronger than other regions and has thus continued to grow its business intelligence ecosystem,” said Nhuch. “The timing for our expansion into this region could not be more appropriate.”

Tableau has a handful of Latin American companies who have been using the English version of the product, achieving impressive results.

• AXTEL, an information and communication technologies company with operations in 39 cities across Mexico, uses Tableau to easily organize and analyze millions of records of real-time information in minutes. “Tableau has taken our reports, graphs and dashboards to another level,” said Noe Garza, Executive Director of Network Operations and Field Services at of AXTEL. “We’ve improved our customer experience by providing our employees with intuitive, interactive reports. We also use Tableau to analyze our internal workforce and resources, increasing efficiency and improving productivity.”

• Nosotras, an innovative microfinance lender in Northeastern Mexico, has adopted Tableau as the platform with which it informs the company’s decision making processes. The rapidly growing financial institution, which is focused exclusively on serving the needs of women in Mexico’s large low income population, keeps track of dozens of key performance indicators with the help of Tableau.

  Every area of business — from personnel hiring to credit collection — is visible to management in real time. “We are obsessed with responding promptly to customer needs and have a lean central office. Nosotras handles thousands of customer contacts every day and it would be impossible for us to provide the level of service that we do without the help of Tableau,” said Oscar Robles, the company’s founder and CEO. “What Tableau has allowed us to do is to be more effective in managing by exception.”

• Claro, the largest mobile phone network in the Americas, uses Tableau in Brazil. “Tableau helps us to understand our data scenarios and create intuitive reports for our analysts,” said Reginaldo Adão, Marketing Specialist at Claro Brazil. “We believe that Tableau will transform business intelligence in Latin America with its intuitiveness and simplicity.”

• “As the largest job-search website in South America, we collect tremendous volumes of data about people, companies and online behaviors,” said Adriano Meirinho, CMO at Catho Online Brazil. “Tableau helps us to make sense of that data so we’ll able to improve our user experience and help people find better opportunities in less time.”

Tableau’s Latin America expansion comes at a time when the company is experiencing massive growth. In 2011, Tableau announced that it doubled global bookings year over year, posting 104 percent bookings growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 94 percent growth for the year. This marks Tableau’s eighth year of record bookings. Tableau also grew its worldwide customer base by 40 percent in 2011 and now has more than 7,000 organizations using its fast analytics products. Last year, the company opened its London office and announced versions of its products in French and German as well as support for mobile business intelligence on the iPad.

About Tableau
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Ranked by Gartner and IDC in 2011 as the world’s fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau helps anyone quickly analyze, visualize and share information. More than 7,000 companies get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at www.tableausoftware.com/trial. Register now for the 2012 Tableau Customer Conference at http://www.tableaucustomerconference.com/tcc12.

Tableau is a trademark of Tableau Software, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tableau-software-continues-global-expansion-153000350.html

The new product Javelin BI will meet the business needs of being able to easily design and schedule reports which can then be accessed online within a company’s own secure system.

Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) May 24, 2012

Windward, the enterprise reporting, document generation and business intelligence software specialists, today announced the official release of Javelin BI. Javelin BI is a package of web-based business intelligence tools that enable business professionals to access, via any web browser, vital information that drives key business decisions.

Javelin BI is the fusion of two popular Windward products, AutoQuery and Javelin. The AutoQuery template design tool is a Microsoft Office add-in for creating ad hoc and drill down reports, and the platform-agnostic Javelin report and scheduling server allows for access and control from any application, regardless of programming language.

“Javelin BI is innovative in that it is a web-based business intelligence solution where reports are created in Microsoft Office,” said Shirley Clawson, CEO of Windward. “This gives our customers unique ease of use in designing, running and scheduling ad hoc reports.”

Key benefits of the Javelin BI solution are on-demand information and customized queries, where documents contain only relevant data giving users access to more specific data or ad hoc reporting in seconds. Employees and customers from across an organization can obtain up-to-the-minute reports from multiple locations with unmatched flexibility, since the tool is deployed locally and can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.

Another noteworthy feature of the Javelin BI tool is its scheduler. Users can schedule reports to be created and run automatically, so they can generate documents and reports while they’re working on other business tasks. The powerful report scheduler offers a wide range of options and timetables, allowing reports to be run daily, yearly, and anywhere in between.

In addition, Javelin BI offers the ability to generate reports in any programming language. Plus, it is implemented using a simple RESTful API that can be called from browsers and all major programming languages.

For more information on Javelin BI and Windward’s web-based business intelligence tools, please visit http://www.windward.net/web-based-business-intelligence.php.

About Windward

Windward offers business intelligence, enterprise reporting, document generation and Web-based business intelligence solutions. Launched in 2002, Windward is the only full-featured, robust Java and .NET engine to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as a layout tool, putting template design and report and document generation power in the hands of the end user. Any Office user can easily and securely create reports and documents with almost no learning curve. Additionally, OEMs and VARs use Windward’s reporting component.

Windward works by merging any XML, SQL or custom data source—or any combination thereof—with a Microsoft Office report template. It feeds data into the template to create a what-you-see-is-what-you-get report or document that can be generated in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, HTML, direct to printer, RTF, XLS, WordML, TXT, and CSV. Windward runs as a standalone application or in an enterprise computing environment. Also unique, Windward implements in hours, offers affordable server-based pricing, and offers “prompt, fantastic” technical support via a 24/7 support forum and support contracts. A free trial of Windward’s products is available at http://www.windward.net.

The Windward user group spans 70 countries. User applications include financial statements, inventory reports, product-usage reports, purchase orders, invoices, training certificates, timesheets, and licenses. Other applications include reporting to meet requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, International Financial Reporting Standards, Patriot Act, ARRA, HIPAA, Health Level Seven, Gramm-Leach-Blailey, Basel II, and other U.S. and international acts and accords affecting financial services, real estate, government, and insurance industries and the consultants and integrators serving them.

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Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/windward-delivers-based-business-intelligence-tools-190245601.html

New web-based business intelligence tool Javelin. Welcome to easy ad-hoc reporting.

“Javelin BI is innovative in that it is a web-based business intelligence solution where reports are created in Microsoft Office,” said Shirley Clawson, CEO of Windward.

Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) May 24, 2012

Windward, the enterprise reporting, document generation and business intelligence software specialists, today announced the official release of Javelin BI. Javelin BI is a package of web-based business intelligence tools that enable business professionals to access, via any web browser, vital information that drives key business decisions.

Javelin BI is the fusion of two popular Windward products, AutoQuery and Javelin. The AutoQuery template design tool is a Microsoft Office add-in for creating ad hoc and drill down reports, and the platform-agnostic Javelin report and scheduling server allows for access and control from any application, regardless of programming language.

“Javelin BI is innovative in that it is a web-based business intelligence solution where reports are created in Microsoft Office,” said Shirley Clawson, CEO of Windward. “This gives our customers unique ease of use in designing, running and scheduling ad hoc reports.”

Key benefits of the Javelin BI solution are on-demand information and customized queries, where documents contain only relevant data giving users access to more specific data or ad hoc reporting in seconds. Employees and customers from across an organization can obtain up-to-the-minute reports from multiple locations with unmatched flexibility, since the tool is deployed locally and can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.

Another noteworthy feature of the Javelin BI tool is its scheduler. Users can schedule reports to be created and run automatically, so they can generate documents and reports while they’re working on other business tasks. The powerful report scheduler offers a wide range of options and timetables, allowing reports to be run daily, yearly, and anywhere in between.

In addition, Javelin BI offers the ability to generate reports in any programming language. Plus, it is implemented using a simple RESTful API that can be called from browsers and all major programming languages.

For more information on Javelin BI and Windward’s web-based business intelligence tools, please visit http://www.windward.net/web-based-business-intelligence.php.

About Windward

Windward offers business intelligence, enterprise reporting, document generation and Web-based business intelligence solutions. Launched in 2002, Windward is the only full-featured, robust Java and .NET engine to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as a layout tool, putting template design and report and document generation power in the hands of the end user. Any Office user can easily and securely create reports and documents with almost no learning curve. Additionally, OEMs and VARs use Windward’s reporting component.

Windward works by merging any XML, SQL or custom data source—or any combination thereof—with a Microsoft Office report template. It feeds data into the template to create a what-you-see-is-what-you-get report or document that can be generated in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, HTML, direct to printer, RTF, XLS, WordML, TXT, and CSV. Windward runs as a standalone application or in an enterprise computing environment. Also unique, Windward implements in hours, offers affordable server-based pricing, and offers “prompt, fantastic” technical support via a 24/7 support forum and support contracts. A free trial of Windward’s products is available at http://www.windward.net.

The Windward user group spans 70 countries. User applications include financial statements, inventory reports, product-usage reports, purchase orders, invoices, training certificates, timesheets, and licenses. Other applications include reporting to meet requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, International Financial Reporting Standards, Patriot Act, ARRA, HIPAA, Health Level Seven, Gramm-Leach-Blailey, Basel II, and other U.S. and international acts and accords affecting financial services, real estate, government, and insurance industries and the consultants and integrators serving them.

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I’m working with a client to help them move all reports in their company from native mode (Reporting Services not integrated with SharePoint) to SharePoint integrated mode.  At the same time, we will help them migrate hundreds of report in SSRS 2005 and 2008 R2 to SSRS in SQL Server 2012.  Does it always make sense to integrate SSRS reports into SharePoint?

SharePoint 2010 really is Microsoft’s direction for BI and collaborative reporting.  It offers some great features and capabilities for most business users.  SharePoint has improved quite a lot over the past few versions and SharePoint 2010 is an impressive platform for hosting content, collaborating, sharing and bringing a business community together to get work done. Many businesses have already embraced SharePoint as their central content portal.  A few years ago when my employer tried to convince us to use SharePoint 2003 and 2007 to replace shared folders in the network file system with document libraries, sometimes it was just a pain in the butt!  Each and every file had to be uploaded separately, checked-in and tagged with required properties.  Even though moving documents around in SharePoint is not always as easy as dragging and dropping them in Windows Explorer, it has certainly gotten a lot more convenient.

Back to my client… Today they’re running SSRS on some slow hardware and have some report design issues that cause a few isolated performance challenges.  Now they want to move to SQL Server 2012 and integration with SharePoint 2010 – and they want to know what to expect.  My reply is that there are many advantages in embracing this new paradigm and preparing to use the new generation of Microsoft BI tools in SharePoint, but the bottom line is that by adding another layer of complexity to the solution, it is inevitable that reports will slow down some.  Sure, we can improve overall performance by upgrading the server hardware and users will never experience this penalty (but I suppose that’s cheating a little.)

In researching this issue, there are several good resources online.  Melissa Coates, AKA Data Chick, blogged about her experience in January 2011 working on a SharePoint integration project with slow report performance issues.  Her detailed observations are educational as are the long thread of chatter that followed the post.  One of a few conclusions was that the ReportViewer 10 web part used in SharePoint 2010 causes more overhead than the earlier version especially when images (as rendered charts, sparklines and other graphic visuals) are repeated in tablix cells and resized to fill cells.  The resizing issue can be mitigated by using rectangles to control image resizing.  She reverted her SSRS SQL Server 2008 R2 client back to native mode because of poor report performance, awaiting better news from Microsoft about pending improvements for SQL Server 2012.

Another blogger, Giles Hamson, has observed some significant performance improvements with SSRS integrated with SharePoint in SQL Server 2012 when compared to SQL Server 2008 R2.  According to his tests, performance improved from 30% to as well as 249% in some cases.

So, what am I telling my client as we prepare to make the move from native mode in SSRS 2008 R2 and SSRS 2005 to SharePoint integrated mode with SQL Server 2012?  I think we’ll move cautiously forward and test the water before we jump in head first.  One of the redeeming elements is that they have few graphical-intensive reports which seemed to be one of the big show-stoppers in Melissa’s project.

This particular client will probably take a little while to make the move but in the meanwhile, we have several other clients who have already taken the plunge and – so far, so good.  Stay tuned.

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