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Claritum to Exhibit at Print Oasis Print Buyers Exhibition 2010

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Claritum  are set to Exhibit at Print Oasis Print Buyers Conference & Exhibit,  on July 19 - 20, 2010
 

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The event, being held at the National Press Club in Washington is designed for print buyers to discover practical skills and new technologies that will help streamline the print production process and save money for your  their respective organizations. Attendees  be able to network with industry peers and benefit from their lessons learned as well as  learning about new solutions from exhibitors and speaker alike.

Print Oasis is the premier conference focused on the needs and challenges of print communications managers, print buyers, specifiers, and production professionals. Print buyers, designers, and marketers will come together at this two-day conference and exhibition to learn about new and existing technologies and best practices for print production.
 
Conference Highlights:
• Special Event: Special Legislative Intensive - Learn the legislative issues that affect the pricing and availability of print; Receive once-in-a-lifetime special training on how Congress works, how to petition congress on the issues surrounding print; Training from 9:30 – noon; Meetings on Capitol Hill starting at 2 pm. Special Intensive Attendees receive a free tour of Capitol Hill and an exclusive opportunity to meet with your Congressmen. Print Buyers Online.com is writing legislation to provide tax exemptions for buying companies who purchase print in a sustainable way. Join our efforts to pass this legislation and you could save your company hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

• Print Buyer Case Studies: Tired of the same old industry talking heads? You won’t find any of those at Print Oasis 2010. This format features real-life print buying heroes and heroines who provide tangible advice you can immediately put to use. Get real-world advice from the trenches.

• Print Oasis 2010 is a “Can’t Miss”:  Hear actionable advice from top print buyers and marketers who have achieved great success in these uncertain times.  Learn effective strategies that you can immediately implement within your company.

In addition to the comprehensive conference format, Print Oasis is pleased to offer the following exciting benefits to conference attendees:

• Educational sessions with dynamic print buyer guest speakers and subject matter experts

• More than 40 exhibitors including printers, proofing companies, major technology firms and paper manufacturers

• Print Communications Professionals International (PCPI) members receive $100 discount, and our robust monthly Printing Trends reports. 

For more information on the event, please follow the link - http://www.printoasis.com/printoasis/PrintOasis.asp

Come and see us on stand F5!

Business Intelligence Software and Cloud Computing

Friday, April 16th, 2010

The new frontier for BI software appears to be in the cloud. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) aspect of cloud computing is rapidly creating a new wave of Business Intelligence software benefits and challenges.

BI software on a SaaS basis has the ability to provide BI capabilities to a large number of staff rapidly at a low cost.

Howard Dresner, principal of Dresner Advisory Services and the man who coined the phrase Business Intelligence, said that “with a SaaS approach to BI, businesses can deploy a basic BI application in a day, compared with six or more months required to develop and deploy on-premise solutions. Still, implementing either a cloud-based point solution or an entire suite with on-premise legacy systems is not a trivial affair”.

Regardless, with huge demand, many new BI software cloud vendors have launched in the past five years. Dozens of start-ups have attracted venture capital along with paying customers. They run the gamut from providing full BI suites to point solutions for customer analytics, performance management, workforce analysis and other tasks. And more are expected to launch this year. The established, legacy BI software players aren’t sitting on their haunches either. They’re also moving to offer hosted versions of their apps.

Claritum has recently partnered with MicroStrategy software to provide support for improved decision-making through realtime business intelligence,
Under this agreement, Claritum’s users can seamlessly use the Best of Breed Business Intelligence platform including intuitive management reporting, interactive performance dashboards and powerful analytics.

Claritum to Launch “Claritum Connect”

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Claritum are pleased to announce the imminent launch of “Claritum Connect” a one-stop online resource for all of their  Clients and Partners, encompassing customer support, best practice guides, training manuals and Feature Request (Ideas) Board. 

Claritum Connect is a central online portal that customers can access with a single log-in.  It currently offers customer support, best practice guides and training materials.  Coming in Q3 of 2010 will be online communities to connect with other Claritum customers and to also facilitate customer branding of their portals. The available resources will include:

• Customer Support & Reporting – An enhanced customer support option that makes it easy for customers to create, update, track and report on customer support cases via the Web.

• Knowledge Library – A solutions library that includes enhanced searching capabilities on a wealth of knowledge including product information, and training manuals and materials.

• Best Practices – A library of best practice guides, webcasts, presentations, case studies, white papers and industry news that provide a clear map to ensure customers get the greatest value out of their solutions including the most advanced capabilities.

• Community - An online ideas board (feature enhancements module, where customers can post new feature requests and vote on existing feature requests), solutions tips, news and updates, as well as upcoming events.

SaaS BI will be big in 2010

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained IT budgets and other factors.

A new IDC report finds the SaaS BI market will experience triple the growth of the market overall, soaring at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent through 2013, although actual revenue totals will remain small compared to on-premise BI applications.

There are plenty of good reasons to adopt SaaS (software as a service) BI, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

It can get BI tools to typically under-served users, such as front-office workers, a lot faster, analyst Boris Evelson wrote. “The model may also become more attractive as enterprises turn to on-demand software for other needs, such as CRM (customer relationship management).


“The more applications (and therefore BI data sources) are moved into the cloud, the fewer reasons there may be to build and operate BI applications in-house,”

 
Claritum has recently partnered with MicroStrategy software to provide support for improved decision-making through realtime business intelligence,

Under this agreement, Claritum’s users can seamlessly use the Best of Breed Business Intelligence platform including intuitive management reporting, interactive performance dashboards and powerful analytics.

Claritum set for winter release

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Details of Claritum’s Winter 2009 Release have been announced. 

 
Service Hub
Service Hub ensures users maximise return on investment from Claritum and benefit from an increasingly wide range of fully integrated software capabilities and best of breed services. Within the Service Hub, key modules and configuration options that are available, Users can also explore additional features and assess whether they are suitable for their organisation.
Not only that, Service Hub is the place to go for professional and education services such as training and consulting services.

 
User Interface Improvements
As Claritum continues to focus on combining increasingly powerful capabilities with an improved user experience, the Winter09 release includes a series of User Interface improvements. Such as a new, simpler side menu, improved colour scheme and page layouts, more on screen alerts and prompts and better searching and filtering capabilities.

 
Process Optimisation
Claritum continues to focus on process improvements to help users deliver more value from their Claritum deployment. Additionally, our team constantly reviews and improved system performance to ensure the system will perform optimally leading to even better user experience and less downtime.

 
Internationalisation
As Claritum continues to grow its international client base, the system can be now deployed for use in most countries with Latin based alphabets.

 
Localisation
For organisations with users accessing Claritum across the world, we have improved the localisation capabilities. Now individual users can configure their system to their own time zones, use local date, number and address formats suitable to their location. ISO (metric) and imperial sizes can also be configured within the system.

 
Management Reporting (Stage 1)
Following a comprehensive review of Claritum’s management reporting, many users will be aware of Claritum’s powerful Business Intelligence capability is coming soon!
As an interim measure, or for users wishing to continue using the current reporting functionality, we have rationalised the reports available to dramatically improve data quality and data availability.

 
Supplier Management
In response to feedback from both buyers and suppliers, Claritum is providing more and more capabilities for suppliers. Not only will this approach deliver further process optimisation but ensure supplier realise tangible benefits from Claritum to their business.

 
Powerful User Education Resources
From the Winter09 release your users will have access to a comprehensive range of Quick Start Guides, Webcasts and a Knowledge Bank of useful information.

 
Enhanced Security
Security of data is always paramount to Claritum, so we’re increasing the level of security that comes as standard within the deployment. From the point of release onwards, all usage of the system will be secured using the highest industry-standard encryption available - this is the same level of protection offered by online banks and financial institutions.

 
Looking Forward - Spring 2010 Release

Enterprise Level Business Intelligence - Coming Soon!
From the Spring 2010 release, users will have the option to add powerful and real time management reporting and onscreen dashboards to the Claritum system.
With Claritum’s improved BI capabilities, users can analyse your data, build their own reports and dashboards and publish information in powerful onscreen reports or timed emails.
This will provide a unique and granular insight into organisations print spend, system usage and supply chain to ensure compliance to best practice, streamline operations and empower your users and executives to make informed business decisions with real time data.

MediaPro 09 comes to a close.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Claritum attended the MediaPro 09 Exhibition last week which was held at  London’s prestigious Old Billingsgate market.

The event was staged for those involved in the creation, production, procurement and distribution of media and marketing communications - Until now there has not been an exhibition that covers the whole media and marketing supply chain, from content creation to the point of delivery to the target audience.

The unique event over two days and is organised by the publisher behind PrintMedia Management, First City Media, who were happy to see in the region of 2000 delegates through the doors.

There were more than 60 free seminars, across a range of specialised theatres which encompassed Creative, Pre-Media, Print and Paper, Circulation and Distribution, and Brand Management.

Key issues such as innovation, cost effectiveness, increased ROI and quality improvement across print and paper, web, and rich internet applications, were addressed.

Delegates expressed significant interest in Claritum’s track record of delivering significant, measurable and sustainable process efficiencies to leading enterprise, SME and public sector clients.

Phil Martin, Marketing Manager at Claritum said “It was a fantastic opportunity to meet and talk at length with a whole variety of media professionals from a range backgrounds and sectors.

It has enabled us to network with a number of potential clients, consulting partners, technology partners and managed service providers, we now have the opportunity to explore in detail how we can work together in the future.

I would like to extend my thanks to the MediaPro team for an excellent two days and to all who visited our stand or expressed interest in our offering

Für Implementierungen als SaaS-Modell geeignet

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

MicroStrategy, Anbieterin von Business Intelligence-Software (BI), gab die Erweiterung ihres OEM-Programms um neue Produktfunktionen für “Software-as-a-Service”-Unternehmen (SaaS) bekannt. Die BI-Plattform des Unternehmens stellt integrierte Reporting- und Analysefunktionen bereit. Softwareunternehmen und Technologieanbietern können ihr vorhandenes Produktangebot, um Funktionen für Reporting, Dashboarding, Analyse und automatische Warnmeldungen erweitern.

 

Mit dem aktuellen Release “MicroStrategy 9″ bietet das BI-Unternehmen besonders für das SaaS-Modell geeignete neue Funktionen. Diese umfassen unter anderem erweiterte Designfunktionen für Fachanwender, In-Memory-BI für eine höhere Datenskalierbarkeit in größeren mandantenfähigen Systemen und eine verbesserte Sicherheit bei der Integration mit Drittanbietern. Zudem unterstützt eine vereinfachte Plug-in-Architektur und die Möglichkeit unternehmensspezifische, eigene mehrsprachige Reporting-Terminologien innerhalb derselben Multi-Mandanten-Anwendung zu verwenden, den Einsatz im SaaS Umfeld.

 

Die MicroStrategy BI-Plattform ist bestens für Implementierungen als SaaS-Modell geeignet:

• Skalierbarkeit und hohe Leistung für wachsende mandantenfähige Umgebungen

• Einheitliche Metadaten zur Minimierung von Entwicklungs- und Wartungsaufwand

• Zentrale Administration zur Senkung der Supportkosten

• Umfassendes Sicherheitsmodelll für die Nutzung und den Schutz sensibler Daten

• Skalierbarkeit auf mehrere tausend Benutzer

• Intuitive Bedienung für unterschiedlichste Anwendergruppen

• Offene Plattform zur Anpassung, Personalisierung und für das Re-Branding

• Entwicklungsumgebung für Internationalisierung und Sprachvarianten

 

Die Zahl der MicroStrategy-OEM-Partner wächst stetig. Dabei verzeichnen Unternehmen, die mit ihren BI-Implementierungen auf das SaaS-Modell mit MicroStrategy setzen, im OEM-Programm den größten Wachstumsanteil. Zu den SaaS-Anbietern, die kürzlich dem MicroStrategy-OEM-Programm beigetreten sind, zählen u. a. Autologue (USA), Claritum (GB), FreeWheel Media (USA), GAPbuster (Australien), TradeBeam (USA) und Xtiva (USA).

 

“SaaS-BI-Lösungen entwickeln sich zu einer zunehmend attraktiven Alternative für Unternehmen, die unternehmensweit wichtige BI-Daten nutzen wollen, aber nicht über die Ressourcen verfügen, diese Technologien im eigenen Hause zu implementieren”, so Sanju Bansal, COO bei MicroStrategy. “Unternehmen, die ein SaaS-Modell anbieten, finden in MicroStrategy einen Partner, der es ihnen ermöglicht, eine flexible und skalierbare, mandantenfähige BI-Architektur äußerst kostengünstig aufzubauen.”

MicroStrategy enrichit son programme OEM de nouvelles capacités technologiques pour les éditeurs SaaS

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq : MSTR), le leader mondial de la Business Intelligence (BI) d’entreprise, annonce l’extension de son programme OEM avec des nouveautés technologiques destinées aux éditeurs SaaS (Software-as-a-Service).

 

La plate-forme décisionnelle de MicroStrategy intègre des outils de reporting et d’analyse qui permettent aux éditeurs de logiciels et fournisseurs d’ajouter facilement (avec un minimum de coûts et de ressources de développement) des applications de reporting, de création de tableaux de bord, d’analyse et d’alerte ? leurs offres de produits. Les éditeurs SaaS choisissent MicroStrategy pour son évolutivité, ses possibilités de personnalisation et ses fonctions de sécurité.

 

MicroStrategy 9, dernière version de la plate-forme, offre de nouvelles capacités spécialement conçues pour les éditeurs SaaS, notamment : des fonctions améliorées de conception pour l’utilisateur final, une BI en mémoire pour accueillir un volume supérieur de données dans les systèmes partagés, une intégration plus sûre aux outils tiers, une architecture plug-in facilitant la personnalisation et une possibilité pour différentes entreprises d’utiliser leur propre terminologie de reporting, en plusieurs langues, dans la même application partagée.

 

La plate-forme décisionnelle MicroStrategy répond parfaitement aux exigences des éditeurs SaaS pour les déploiements BI :

• Évolutivité et performances élevées pour les environnements partagés en expansion

• Métadonnées unifiées pour réduire au minimum les efforts de développement et de maintenance

• Administration centralisée pour réduire les coûts et ressources de support

• Modèle complet de sécurité pour distribuer et protéger les données sensibles

• Évolutivité pour accueillir des milliers d’utilisateurs

• Facilité d’emploi pour une communauté d’utilisateurs très diversifiée

• Plate-forme ouverte qui facilité l’intégration, la personnalisation et le rebranding

• Capacités de développement pour gérer l’internationalisation et les dialectes

 

Le portefeuille de partenaires OEM de MicroStrategy n’a cessé de se développer, les sociétés qui choisissent MicroStrategy pour leurs déploiements BI SaaS représentant le plus important secteur de croissance du programme OEM. Parmi les éditeurs SaaS qui ont récemment rejoint ce programme, on trouve Autologue (États-Unis), Claritum (Royaume-Uni), FreeWheel Media (États-Unis), GAPbuster (Australie), TradeBeam (États-Unis) et Xtiva (États-Unis).

 

« La plate-forme décisionnelle de MicroStrategy contient les outils de sécurité, de personnalisation et Web en self-service requises pour offrir une solution matérielle, logicielle et applicative unique, tout en répondant toujours aux besoins spécifiques des clients », explique Daniel Schmidt, CIO de Constellation Software. « Cette capacité, associée à une évolutivité pour accueillir de nombreux utilisateurs et d’importants volumes de données, fait de MicroStrategy la plate-forme décisionnelle idéale pour les déploiements SaaS partagés. »

 

« Les solutions décisionnelles SaaS représentent une alternative de plus en plus attirante pour les entreprises qui doivent partager des données décisionnelles essentielles dans l’ensemble de leur structure, mais qui ne disposent pas de ressources suffisantes pour l’implémentation et la maintenance de ces technologies en interne », conclut Sanju Bansal, COO de MicroStrategy. « Avec MicroStrategy, les entreprises qui proposent un modèle SaaS peuvent créer, de façon extr?mement rentable, une architecture BI flexible, évolutive et partagée. »

 

Pour plus d’informations sur le programme OEM de MicroStrategy, consulter notre site web : http://www.microStrategy.com/partners/OEM

MicroStrategy targets Claritum through OEM channel

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

MicroStrategy have announced it has enhanced its OEM programme by offering new capabilities within its business intelligence (BI) platform, MicroStrategy 9, specifically aimed at software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. These include in-memory BI, improved security integration and a plug-in architecture.

This move represents a more concerted effort by MicroStrategy to build its indirect channel and widen the appeal of its software to other industries and sectors.

 

MicroStrategy 9 offers a range of features that make the platform more suitable towards multi-tenant applications. These include new end-user design features, in-memory BI enabling higher data scalability for larger multi-tenant systems, improved security integration with third-party tools, a plug-in architecture for simpler customisation and the ability for different companies to use their own reporting terminology via its metadata layer.

 All such features are expected to make the process of integrating and leveraging MicroStrategy’s software within third-party SaaS providers more straightforward and seamless.

This is evidence that the company is building momentum through its channel partners.

 

By making it easier to OEM its software with third-party SaaS technology providers, MicroStrategy can widen its appeal to other industries and sectors that it would not ordinarily target. For instance, Claritum is one such SaaS OEM partner that specialises in on-demand print spend management and targets both large enterprises and SMEs.

 

Claritum has partnered with MicroStrategy software to provide support for improved decision-making through realtime business intelligence. Through this agreement Claritum can add additional reporting and analysis functionality to its spend management solution while MicroStrategy generates additional revenues from selling its software in a new market.

 

Clairum’s technology partner network is key to delivering powerful integrated software-as-a-service solutions to their clients. This approach ensures their clients have access to a highly flexible portfolio of best of breed on demand capabilities in order to maximise the benefit delivered.

Claritum Partner with Web4Print

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Claritum’s partners play a critical role in helping our prospects and customers understand and overcome the complex challenges associated with print category savings and efficiencies.

 
Our technology partner network is key to delivering powerful integrated software-as-a-service solutions to our clients.

 
Our Technology partners include ERP, financial and e-procurement vendors, category specific creative and production systems to supplier estimating and workflow software. This approach ensures our clients have access to a highly flexible portfolio of best of breed on demand capabilities in order to maximise the benefit delivered. We also partner leading technology providers to delivery our software and services to our clients.

 
Our platform delivery partners have been carefully selected to enable Claritum to provide world-class software and services to customers whether a global enterprise with thousands of users or a single user business.

 
One recent successful integration has been with Web4Print -  http://www.web4print.com – Web4Print who are developed, supported and distributed by Documation Limited located in Dublin, Ireland; provide full web-2-print and templating technologies to a variety of clients such as BAA and Miele.

 
Clients will be able to use the Web4Print platform as an artwork template generation tool that directly integrates with Claritums catalogue, e-Procurement, order management and invoice-to-pay technology

 

Our technology partner’s services are available directly or via Claritum’s Service Hub.

 
The Claritum partner program is designed to attract, empower and support world-class partners to assist our clients to achieve their objectives, while providing reciprocal benefits to Claritum and our partners.