By early Wednesday morning it had already turned into a busy news week for the business intelligence market.
Led by the much-anticipated global release of ReportNet by Cognos Inc. on Tuesday, three other BI players have followed up with announcements of new capabilities or software.
ReportNet introduced to the world
ReportNet, the Ottawa company's much ballyhooed Web-based enterprise query and reporting application, was announced simultaneously at events in New York, Chicago, San Jose, Tokyo, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Stockholm and the Netherlands. Cognos has high hopes for its new reporting tool. CEO Rob Zambonini pledged in June to conduct an earnings call naked if ReportNet does not do $10 million in business.
Rob Ashe, president and COO, trumpeted the release in a statement that called ReportNet "a game-changing event" for the BI industry. "It answers one of the biggest pains facing today's enterprises: the need to manage and administer multiple solutions to address all of an enterprises reporting requirements."
Integrated with the Cognos Enterprise BI tools, ReportNet includes flexible scorecards, dashboards, OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration. ReportNet can be built in more than 25 languages. It is immediately available in Japanese, English, German and French user interfaces.
Actuate makes move for Cognos customers
While Cognos was touting its new product,
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competitor Actuate Corp., South San Francisco, Calif., announced it is expanding its UpTrade Program to include Cognos customers working the company's earlier software.
Hoping to cash in upgrade uncertainly that some Cognos Impromptu may have, Actuate will offer financial incentives to migrate to Actuate's Information Application Platform. The deal is good through Nov. 28. The discount program also covers customers of Brio Software, Business Objects and Crystal Decisions.
"Since current Impromptu customers will have to purchase new licenses for ReportNet and convert Impromptu reports to ReportNet reports, they may as well consider converting to Actuate," Pete Cittadini, CEO of Actuate, said in a release.
SAS announces employee turnover mitigation function
SAS Inc., Cary, N.C., announced Wednesday morning an addition to its Human Capital Management software. If you need to know which employees are going to be turning in those resignation letters, SAS says it can give you advance warning.
The BI vendor's new capabilities use a predictive modeling function to determine which employees are most likely to resign voluntarily, according to SAS officials. It determines which common characteristics contribute to turnover, such as salary, level of education and training, and length of service. Employees are ranked and assigned probabilities for voluntarily leaving within a specific time frame.
Panorama announces integration with new Microsoft reporting server
Panorama Software, Toronto, announced Tuesday that its NovaView BI platform will support the new Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, the first version release of Microsoft's reporting server. NovaView will complement the forthcoming Microsoft server with analysis capabilities, such as drilling and filtering, pivoting and changing hierarchies, user-defined measures and extensive user-defined exceptions, according to company officials.
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