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Good Data Offers Safe Harbor to LucidEra Customers
Good Data today announced a program to offer existing LucidEra customers free access to its innovative on-demand analytics service. This safe harbor program provides customers six free months of the same lead & pipeline analysis applications they currently use with LucidEra, which is offering to sell its intellectual property after almost four years of operations.
“We view lead and pipeline analytics as just the starting point towards true business intelligence, which is why we offer them for free,” said Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder of Good Data. “Our customers want the flexibility to combine marketing and sales analytics with data from around their business for more insight. We’re confident LucidEra customers want the same thing.”
A Dashboard for Mumbai CEO
Mumbai CEO will be accountable to the people he’s supposed to serve. An empowered CEO would be guided by a council of specialists, including one member each from government agencies such as MMRDA, MHADA, Mumbai Police, BEST, MSRTC and NGOs. He would be entitled to get reporting from such different authorities.
One-on-One with Rado Kotorov
Dashboard Insight recently spoke with Rado Kotorov about his “extended BI strategy,” solutions for mobile devices and why he currently prefers his clients thin!
IBM Opens First European Analytics Center in Berlin, Germany
At the SmarterCities forum today in Berlin, IBM announced the opening of its first European Analytics Solution Center in Berlin, initially designed to serve public sector clients, universities and healthcare organizations. The new center is the first step, in a recently announced global network that addresses the emerging market for advanced analytics capabilities, which will help clients build smarter business systems and drive improved decision-making.
“Precise business decisions with far-reaching consequences for the entire organization today need to be made at ever shorter intervals. The cause for wrong decisions often stems from insufficient information at the time of the decision-making process. The public sector—like private enterprise—needs suitable tools and more advanced analytics to have always crucial information and knowledge at the right time and place at its disposal,” said Martin Jetter, General Manager, IBM Germany.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Selects MetricStream for GRC
MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions today announced that BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST), an independent, not-for-profit licensee of the BlueCross Blue Shield Association, has selected the MetricStream platform for deploying an integrated software solution for a broad range of business processes including governance, compliance, quality management, risk management, and corrective actions. The solution will enable BCBST to effectively meet obligations with various industry standards, government regulations and internal policies and procedures.
Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, BCBST provides cost-effective, quality healthcare benefits to approximately 3 million members. BCBST and its subsidiaries are committed to conducting business with ethics, integrity and in accordance with federal, state and local laws and regulations. The enterprise-wide program to automate and streamline critical GRC and Quality Management processes will facilitate information management, collaboration, communication and oversight necessary for meeting this commitment.
Cut The Fat, Not The Limb: Using Technology To Cut The Right Costs
Gone are the days of IT-led Business Intelligence initiatives. Performance management projects are all the rage now, where IT projects are defined by business needs, providing valuable data to managers. While increasing efficiency is important, deciding which costs to cut means the difference between trimming the fat and severing a limb.
BPM Goes Mainstream: BPM Buyer’s Guide 2009:
During this past year, business performance management (BPM) became a core offering of the world’s largest software vendors. In spite of all the consolidation, the vendor landscape continues to expand. What does all of this change and expansion mean to prospective purchasers? It means, “Proceed with caution.” The largest vendors have tremendous marketing budgets, but in spite of what they claim, they are not the best answer for every type of BPM adopter.
Post-Satyam: A ‘To Do’ List for All CIOs Who Outsource
Following the Satyam accounting scandal that broke recently in India, the uncertain environment raises the question of how clients of any stricken outsourcing vendor can protect their investments during difficult times. Even if a crisis is limited to one provider, CIOs with any outsourcing contracts have work to do, experts have said.
Performance Management: Making It Work
Are Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM)different words for a species of bird or two different birds … or animals? Is BI part of PM? Or is PM part of BI? There is ambiguity because the underlying inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes of an organization may arguably have some parts that belong to BI, while others belong to PM. However, we should not waste valuable energy debating BI versus PM.
The ‘Cloud’ Improves Collaboration, Saves Costs
Cloud computing is transforming how businesses operate. During challenging economic times, local governments and businesses of all sizes are pursuing ways to decrease costs while making operations as efficient and effective as possible. Of the many benefits delivered by the cloud, two in particular stand out — productivity gains and cost savings.