EMC Corporation today announced a new portfolio of services from EMC® Consulting and EMC Proven™ Solutions with applied technology best practices that help customers with Oracle® and other application environments move forward on their journey to the private cloud.
These new offerings from EMC help enterprises gain operational efficiencies and control costs as they deploy virtualization solutions across business application environments ranging from testing, development and production – to online transactional processing (OLTP) and data warehouse systems....

MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the availability of MicroStrategy Mobile Suite, a software package that allows companies to build mobile business intelligence applications at no cost.
MicroStrategy Mobile enables companies to quickly and easily extend graphs, grids, enterprise reports, and information dashboards to the iPhone® and iPad™. With MicroStrategy Mobile, there is no coding or app design experience required. ..

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, announced today that CHG Healthcare Services, one of the oldest and largest providers of healthcare staffing in the U.S., is improving the accuracy and efficiency of its information systems with integration and data quality technology from iWay. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based organization selected iWay Software's Data Quality Center (DQC) and iWay Service Manager, key components of the iWay Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Suite, to simplify its transition to a new cloud-based CRM system from Salesforce.com...

The island nation of Singapore welcomes millions of first-time visitors each year, and the month of September will be especially busy as it plays host to the world-famous 2010 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has partnered with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) to build an online service combining Twitter feeds and geo-tagging on YourSingapore.com, the STB’s online one-stop visitor information center. ..

IBM and Netezza Corporation  today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Netezza, a publicly held company based in Marlborough, Mass., in a cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 billion, after adjusting for cash.  Netezza will expand IBM's business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost.

The acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010..

Join Pentaho and PortaBI in Barcelona, to learn how Pentaho is revolutionizing the way BI applications are built and deployed. With tight budgets, limited headcount and more requests for vital information than ever before, we need new approaches to solve both old and new IT and business challenges, to avoid the costly and complex BI implementations of the past...

We are presenting STPivot an small improvement, open source, to old jpivot. You can now download it and work with it.

We hope to add new features in next weeks. We also like if you could test, use it, make suggestions and collaborate making new developments and improvements.

You can write us through email and write in the Discussion group about STPivot.

We like, from Stratebi, all the Pentaho community could use it and improve it.

Some enchancements are:

• Ajax interface
• Use of jQuery to handle user interactions
• Highlighted MDX syntax in the editor
• Easier edition of charts (resizing with mouse, icons for options)
• New set of icons

Pentaho Corporation open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that Power Costs, Inc., (PCI) the leading global provider of energy supply management software has successfully deployed the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition integrated with QlikView at three energy companies. The joint solution allows Power Costs' customers to mine massive amounts of data quickly to help improve their Day Ahead and Real-Time operational Profit and Loss (P&L).

Power Costs provides asset optimization solutions to many of the leading power generation and trading companies in the world. The PCI GSMS (Generation Supply Management System) generates 5-10 GB of data a month for each customer which is critical to monitoring their P&L. Prior to using the Pentaho and QlikView business Intelligence solution, Power Costs found it difficult to analyze the large amounts of data and quickly respond to user needs of ad-hoc vertical and horizontal data drilling to find root causes of P&L leakage....

Pentaho Corporation open source Business Intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that London Oncology Clinic is using Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition for management reporting at one of Europe's top cancer treatment facilities.
The London Oncology Clinic (LOC), based in London's Harley Street, is a private practice of over 35 world-class consultants, specializing in the latest peer-reviewed treatments for cancer patients. The technologically advanced clinic operates on a totally electronic system...
 

QlikTech today announced successful enterprise deployments of QlikView business intelligence software by VIP Parts, Tires & Service, the largest privately owned automotive aftermarket retail chain in the New England. VIP’s business footprint spans wholesale, fleet and commercial divisions, as well as 56 retail stores. Using QlikView to integrate, analyze and search millions of transactions from operational and POS (Point of Sale) systems across locations, VIP moved from green-bar and spreadsheet reporting to real-time operational scorecards and holistic, multi-level views of business performance, improving management controls and response to business issues...