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Ventana Research Selects Information Builders as Hot Vendor in the 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:05 +0000

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Ventana Research, a leading benchmark research and advisory services firm, named the company as the overall Hot Vendor in its first-ever Value Index on Business Intelligence. Information Builders secured a weighted top-ranking position for products and customer assurance supporting BI. According to Ventana Research, those earning the highest Hot Vendor classification are certified to best represent buyer value based on a thorough evaluation and audit of the company and its products based on research and verified facts.

“The market for business intelligence continues to be a top agenda item for CIOs and those in business and IT who want to gain the insight and knowledge to guide their business forward. Information Builders’ achievement as a Hot Vendor for BI is an indicator of their business focus and technology that is innovative and proven in enterprise deployments,” said Mark Smith, CEO and executive vice president of Ventana Research. “Our thorough analysis across the standard spectrum of technology evaluation criteria from product capability to vendor validation provides a more efficient and effective method to evaluate vendors and our Value Index represents those who were willing to be placed under our detailed examination.”

MEGA Introduces Powerful Risk Management Capability

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:05 +0000

MEGA, a leader in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software solutions, has integrated a powerful mathematical tool to measure risk exposure into its MEGA GRC Suite, making it the first time such a capability has become part of a comprehensive GRC solution.

The MEGA GRC Suite will contain an expanded risk quantification and analytics component based on Bayesian scenario calculation, a proven, but advanced means to produce the complex operational risk models that experts agree are the best way to measure risk exposure and aid in decision making.

The Bayesian modeling technique provides a simple, yet robust way of combining existing data and knowledge in the form of probabilities, while keeping uncertainties in the data and knowledge explicit. These principles are used to model complex real-world problems in a unified framework.

Kognitio Partners With 2e2 to Offer On-Demand Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS)

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:05 +0000

Kognitio, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions, today announced that it has awarded innovative technology services provider 2e2 a contract for the hosting of Kognitio’s Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS™) environments.

Under the terms of the agreement, 2e2 will work with Kognitio to develop the use and provisioning of the service to existing and new customers. Furthermore, 2e2 will offer its current and new customers the option of using DaaS to implement their data analytics solutions, by using the scalable architecture that is already in place to offer an on-demand service.

Green BI To The Rescue

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:04 +0000

As carbon credits start to take the form of complex derivative financial instruments, dashboard-enabled BI will have to merge with detailed financial/statistical analysis so that companies can determine advantageous positions on associated price spreads and manage carbon credit risk and volatility accordingly. In the recent past, many companies have been falsely or erroneously touting themselves as “carbon neutral” entities. The real problem is that the Federal Trade Commission has not set forth clear guidelines and standards on what true carbon-neutrality is.

The ParAccel Analytic Database Running on Sun Servers Establishes Dramatic 30-Terabyte TPC-H Benchmark Records for Performance and Price-Performance

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:04 +0000

ParAccel, Inc., today announced that the ParAccel Analytic Database™, a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics, running on Sun Fire™ X4540 storage servers and OpenSolaris™, set TPC-H (ad-hoc-decision support) benchmark world records for performance and price-performance at the 30-terabyte scale factor. The TPC-H-audited Sun-ParAccel configuration ran 7 times faster and provided 16 times better price-performance than the previous category leader. With this breakthrough benchmark, ParAccel also announces support for the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Operating System (OS).

Talend Launches Talend Integration Suite RTx, Real-Time Data Integration Platform for Enterprise Integration Needs

dbinsight — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:58:04 +0000

Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Integration Suite RTX, a new real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration needs.

Based on Talend’s award winning, enterprise-grade data integration platform - Talend Integration Suite - the new solution allows IT organizations to accelerate the velocity of data across IT systems. With up-to-the-minute data, customers receive a higher level of data consistency across applications, providing more accurate decision making capabilities.

RTX provides organizations with benefits in many areas. For example, with RTX, companies can save time and money by developing and maintaining data integration processes in a fraction of the time and cost it takes with proprietary technologies. For online merchants, RTX provides the information necessary to make promotional offers on-the-fly, based on user behavior, resulting in more targeted offers with better response rates. RTX also improves customer service by synchronizing and maintaining data from multiple sources so that all stakeholders within an organization can access accurate information.

NBA Draft Lottery Pick Analysis

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:57:53 +0000

As a huge college basketball fan, more specifically a die-hard Duke fan, I recently got into a heated debate about what school has the most top draft picks. So of course that sparked an interesting dashboard idea, with the NBA finals and upcoming NBA draft this month.

The result is an Xcelsius dashboard with all of the NBA Draft Lottery picks since 1985. My goal was to enable dynamic analysis of any date range for the top X draft picks. Weather top 5 picks or top 10 picks, I wanted to dynamically see what colleges produced the top number of draft picks.

At the same time, I could click on any team to see the individual players who were drafted.

To build this dashboard, I used a combination of a few workarounds and Centigon Solutions plugin components including Filtered Summary, Dynamic Sort, and Background Builder. Without these components, this particular dashboard would have been near impossible.

I am going to provide the source files for this particular dashboard and do a few articles about specific workarounds, so you can learn a few new tricks of the trade while having the opportunity to use add-on components to build this type of analysis.

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Webinar Reminder- Xcelsius Data Connectivity Series: When to Utilize Standard Xcelsius Connectivity and Integration

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:57:52 +0000

Webinar Title:
Xcelsius Gurus Data Connectivity Series: Part 2 - When to utilize non-Business Objects connectivity for your dashboard?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 10:00 am (Pacific Standard Time)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/108575d8-7b15-2c10-9fb2-d0082634b740

Speakers: Mico Yuk (EverythingXcelsius.com); Ryan Goodman (Centigon Solutions)

Following up from Part 1 of their successful Data Connectivity Series, Ryan and Mico, 2 of the top Xcelsius Gurus in the world, reveal how and when organizations should leverage non Business Objects connectivity options such as custom web services and portals to connect their Xcelsius dashboards. Not all data is created equal, and neither are your dashboard data requirements. SOAP, Excel XML Maps, XML Data Button, the Xcelsius SDK? By viewing common scenarios and seeing their suggestions for when and how to use these powerful connections, achieving your strategic dashboard goals will become simple. Understanding these standard integration points will not only shorten your dashboard development time, but it will also allow you to make educated decisions of how to best connect your dashboards to live data.

In this session you will learn how to:

* Choose the correct non SAP Business Objects connectivity option by viewing a number of real world scenarios and using our fact based suggestions
* Correctly utilize custom web services and XML connectivity option to power your Xcelsius dashboards
* Integrate Xcelsius into a web based application or portal

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New website: Mobile Data Visualization

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:57:51 +0000

I am excited to announce a new web site today called MobileDataVisualization.com. This new site is geared toward an innovative new technology, RoamBi, and will feature general best practices and emerging trends for mobile business intelligence.

As the chief editor of MobileDataVisualization.com, I will contribute my own experiences and insights as the demand for mobile visualization increases. I look forward to this new project, since I believe that RoamBi will change the landscape for mobile visualization the same way Xcelsius did in 2003.

I invite you to come and checkout and subscribe to the new site to learn more about mobile data visualization and RoamBi.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Google I/O Developer Conference

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:57:50 +0000

Just got back from an exciting Google conference where Centigon Solutions was invited to share our GMaps Plugin at the developer sandbox. We had a lot of interesting discussions and came back with great new ideas for improving the map’s performance and speed for plotting points.

The best part was Google provided everyone with a brand new Google Android phone which is much better than the standard bag full of sales collateral junk.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.