Client Coverage
June 30th, 2009

One-On-One with Alexei Agratchev

BVI News: Dashboard Insight recently spoke with Alexei Agratchev about retail metrics, product customization and the use of video data in modern BI applications.

Dashboard Insight: Where does BVI Networks sit on the B.I. stack?

Alexei Agratchev: BVI Networks’ RetailNEXT is a vertical-based BI application for retailers.  Unlike many BI systems which are more focused at a general business-process level, RetailNEXT is able to give more meaningful insights for retailers.  We handle all layers of the BI stack from aggregating video-camera data with video analytics - and collecting data from POS systems - to displaying interactive dashboards of key retail metrics and overall in-store custom reports.  We also have powerful data analytic algorithms that run in the background to find trends in shopper behavior.

By Karly Gaffney

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Published by: Tina Salcedo on June 30th, 2009 | Filed under BVI, Eastwick Communications | Comment now »



June 29th, 2009

MDM vendors improve data quality, stewardship, according to Gartner

D&B Purisma News: A new emphasis on data quality analysis and data stewardship roles were among the developments over the last year in the master data management (MDM) for customer data market, according to Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant Report.

Responding to customer demands, vendors like IBM, Oracle and Initiate Systems have added or improved data stewardship and governance functions, and data quality profiling, visualization and analysis capabilities, according to John Radcliffe, an analyst with the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm and author of the report.

By Jeff Kelly

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Published by: Tina Salcedo on June 29th, 2009 | Filed under Eastwick Communications, Purisma | Comment now »



June 26th, 2009

Infobright, Pentaho team up with Sun to offer new BI infrastructure

Pentaho News: Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), have teamed with Sun Microsystems to offer a hardware and software system for the deployment of BI infrastructure. The system consists of either the Sun Fire X4275 storage server or Sun Storage 7310 unified storage system, which along with Sun’s Open Network Systems offers a platform to run internet applications. It also consists of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition, which reportedly addresses the spectrum of end-user BI needs for interactive reporting, analysis and dashboards, along with data integration capabilities, and Infobright’s column-oriented analytic database. The database is integrated with Sun’s MySQL and provides a self-managing database designed for BI.

By Staff

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Published by: Tina Salcedo on June 26th, 2009 | Filed under Eastwick Communications, Pentaho | Comment now »



June 25th, 2009

Fujitsu America featured in Channel Insider: Fujitsu Inks First Deal in North American Outsourcing Push

Channel Insider covers Fujitsu’s America’s deal with Alliance Data and notes that, “…there’s a new player with a familiar name looking to break into the space: Fujitsu America.”



Published by: Tina Salcedo on June 25th, 2009 | Filed under Eastwick Communications, Fujitsu America | Comment now »



June 25th, 2009

Fujitsu America featured in eWEEK: Fujitsu America Grows Managed Services Capabilities

This eWEEK article covers the deal with Alliance Data and quotes Fujitsu America’s F. Ali on the company’s growth of its managed services business.

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June 25th, 2009

Bending the back office: Open source CRM and ERP

Pentaho News: The back office for any company requires many different layers of software. Essentials like e-mail and a basic Web site are relatively simple commodities to run. The hardest job is delivering the kind of software that acts as the spinal cord for the business that cares for all of the most essential details, big and small, that keep the customers paying the invoices and ensure the bank accounts hold enough money to make the payroll.

These systems go by names like customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but they’re really just a carefully crafted collection of database tables with a set of routines that keep the employees from messing up the information. They are usually so essential to a business that the database administrators can puff up their chests and make credible statements like, “Our company is really just a big database with a sales force and a warehouse that do its bidding.” They’re not far from the truth.

By Peter Wayner

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June 25th, 2009

Examiner - All-in-one network device–winner or house of cards?

Examiner’s Jeffrey Fritz posted a story on June 25 concerning all-in-one networking devices: “True, the all-in-one box concept does have its advantages. There is the potential for less finger pointing because one vendor (Cisco  or Vyatta in this case) supports all the functions. There is a potential for energy and space savings as one device can now do the work that multiple devices performed in the past. You have less purchase orders to sign, and fewer devices to manage in your network. But not all is nirvana with such an all-in-one approach. Your network now has one whopping single point of failure. Should your magic box suffer a major failure, its services and applications will all come crashing down like a house of cards. Plus you lose best of breed. Now, you have to settle for whatever comes in the all-in-one box.”

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June 24th, 2009

Pentaho Corporation is a Finalist for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards

Pentaho News: Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), recently announced that it has been named a finalist for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. According to SourceForge.net, “This category recognizes the best company-managed open source project with commercial intent.”

By Staff

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June 24th, 2009

Seagate introduces FreeAgent external HDDs for Mac; up to 2TB

Seagate on Wednesday introduced its new lineup of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage drives, including the portable Go and Go Pro models, a 2TB Desk model and the Go Dock+, a powered USB-hub and dock for the FreeAgent Go.

Intended for creative professionals and multimedia enthusiasts — in other words, Mac users — the new FreeAgent for Mac external hard drives offer increased capacity and performance, Seagate says.

By Andrew Nusca

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June 23rd, 2009

Pentaho Named Finalist for “Best Commercial Open Source Project” in SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards

Pentaho News: Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that it has been named a finalist for the “SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.” According to SourceForge.net, “This category recognizes the best company-managed open source project with commercial intent.”

Since its founding in 2004 as the first commercial open source business intelligence company, Pentaho has developed a large, productive community around its open source projects including the Pentaho Reporting project, the Mondrian OLAP project, the Kettle data integration project, the Weka data mining project, and the Pentaho BI platform project. Some community members participate in one key area of interest while others contribute across multiple projects.

Beyond its vibrant open source community, Pentaho has shown significant commercial traction in the multi-billion dollar business intelligence market, recently announcing the world’s largest open source BI deployment at Specsavers, and a proprietary BI replacement at Otto International, the latest in a series of such replacements.

By staff

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Published by: Tina Salcedo on June 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Eastwick Communications, Pentaho | Comment now »