Tag Archive for Business Intelligence

Major new channel synergies anticipated from Qlik acquisition of Attunity

While Attunity’s smaller channel, which is principally SI’s, will realize more significant and elastic capabilities through Qlik, Qlik’s legacy channel, which is much larger, will reap new data integration capabilities. This is something Qlik sees as vital because of where they believe the analytics market is headed.

Information Builders unveils first-ever partner program – in 43 years

Information Builders is looking to expand beyond the enterprise by engaging more closely with their partners, rather than with the transactional model they used before, and have designed their first partner program to achieve this.

ITBoost looks to challenge IT Glue in MSP documentation space with 3.0 release

ITBoost offers full functionality in documentation, password management, BI and customer feedback through an integrated pane of glass, and is at the ConnectWise IT Nation Connect 2018 event this week looking to differentiate themselves and impress MSPs.

Naveego sees joint work on customer deployment with BI vendor Sisense as portent of more vendor collaborations

Data quality vendor Naveego has announced a collaboration with Sisense around one customer, and while this is not even a formal partnership, they believe that their synergies with BI vendors and ability to work easily with their platforms make such strategic partnerships an important part of their future.

Pax8 strengthens backup portfolio with addition of Singapore-based Dropsuite to line card

Pax8 bolsters MSP choices in email archiving and Office 365 backup with Dropsuite, while emphasizing that they have some technology and pricing features that partners should find attractive.

Information Builders gives WebFOCUS platform modernized UI to drive much greater adoption

Information Builders has enhanced the analytics capabilities in their platform, but the big news with this release is the UI changes, designed to make it much easier for a broader range of users to work with.

Looker upgrades their platform’s machine learning with highly complementary Google Cloud BigQuery ML integration

The integration between Looker and BigQuery ML unites all elements of data scientist workflows, so they can do all their work without having to Leave Looker.

New Pax8 BI tool Stax extends simplicity, visibility and cross-sell capability to MSPs

Stax automates the process of identifying gaps in MSP customer solution stacks, recommends offerings which can fill these voids, and provides the MSP with assistance and collateral to sell them.

Pivot3 expands Zerto, VMware partnerships around increased enterprise use cases

The introduction of their Acuity platform last year has deepened Pivot3 presence in the enterprise, which has in turn led them to strengthen their technology partnerships which address this space.

Accelerite broadens Big Data analytics platform beyond developers with ShareInsights 2.0

The Accelerite BI analytics program has undergone a major revamp since its original version to make it easier to use, which in turn will broaden its usage and make it easier to collaborate.

Improving Time to Insight for Midsize Firms

Kevin Nicholas, VP of Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Sage and Bill Tennant, VP of Sales at ZAP report on their work together to improve business insight for midsize enterprises by helping them manage their data

Exact Macola to place new emphasis on select verticals in 2017 go-to-market strategy

Managing Director Alison Forsythe sees 2017 as offering massive opportunities for manufacturing, which should mean massive opportunities for Macola and its partners.

LiveDash launches at Tigerpaw event with real-time Power BI dashboards

LiveDash is looking to build a channel of MSPs to take their tool for making dense and interactive dashboards to market. They are starting with Tigerpaw, as they are a Tigerpaw user, but plan to broaden this out in time.

Scale Computing adds BI capability for SMBs with Information Builders partnership

The Information Builders partnership is the first in a strategy designed to provide Scale partners with additional software services, turning their hardware platform into an App Store of sorts.

RMM/PSA provider Atera offers business intelligence capability to all MSPs

Atera’s technology, which facilitates jointly developed RMM and PSA solutions, is designed for the Internet of Things environment, and collects massive amount of sensor data, which it is using in a free BI offering, not just for its own MSP partners, but anyone who wants to use it.

Epicor CEO pledges major company changes to serve customers

Joe Cowan told Epicor’s Customer Conference in Las Vegas that the company is committed to major changes to its systems and products, to take customers into the cloud and become easier to do business with.