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Information Management Special Reports, June 2005
ADVIZOR Solutions Version 4.1 from Advizor Solutions is advanced reporting and analysis software that complies with the latest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements and supports 21 CFR Part 11 initiatives by providing data pool encryption and event audit logging. These important features also support other compliance and quality initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley and measurement-based strategies that focus on process improvement such as Six Sigma. ADVIZOR software now significantly eases compliance restraints that have historically hampered business intelligence and performance management initiatives.
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Applix TM1 from Applix Inc. helps businesses more accurately and quickly perform multiple financial tasks and features include wizard-based procedures for rapidly importing financial data and quickly deploying new performance management applications, dashboards and scorecards. Additionally, Applix now offers TM1 Financial Consolidations, which supports journal entries, intercompany eliminations and other activities specific to the consolidation process.
SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB version 3.0 from BMC Software enables DBAs to maintain desired performance levels, reduce maintenance needs and timing and better prepare for future growth of applications. SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB offers performance history tracking capabilities including the ability to drill into history to pinpoint SQL and database problems through an easy-to-navigate graphical user interface. Through new technological advances, SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB is providing users with more advanced performance capabilities.
Unicenter Database Management r11 for IMS for z/OS from Computer Associates International (CA) is a comprehensive, integrated solution that enables IMS users to optimize database performance, reduce data center operations costs and protect business-critical data more effectively. This latest version offers enhancements that help organizations safeguard database integrity, minimize backup and recovery times, and conserve CPU resources. It also bundles functionality previously licensed separately into three core products - Unicenter Database Analyzer, Unicenter Database Organizer and Unicenter High Performance Recovery - providing even greater business value to data center buyers. Customers will gain this bundled functionality at no charge when they upgrade to the r11 release.
SANmelody 2.0 from DataCore Software is disk server software which reduces the cost of enterprise-class storage capabilities down to the levels of the PC world. SANmelody 2.0 enables network administrators to maximize storage utilization, consolidate resources and manage their storage assets as a utility and delivers a range of network storage services to multiple application and virtual server platforms, adds robust data mirroring over LANs to improve business continuance and uptime, and provides an affordable, open and auto-grow virtual capacity solution.
DataDirect Connect for .NET, DataDirect Connect for JDBC and DataDirect Connect for ODBC are now available from DataDirect Technologies. The standards-based releases offer new performance wizards for customized configuration. With the addition of Performance Wizards, DataDirect Technologies ensures optimal data connectivity out of the box, by leading users through an intuitive process to configure critical connection properties that affect performance. Embodying hundreds of developer years focused on performance tuning, the tool reduces configuration complexity to drive maximum performance with less time and effort.
Federated Records Management technology from IBM combines IBM DB2 Records Manager and IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition into an integrated solution that eliminates the complexity of centrally managing recordkeeping policies for all distributed content throughout an organization, no matter where documents and other content are stored and managed. This new solution leverages the open and versatile capabilities of IBM's comprehensive information management software portfolio to create a solution optimized to help clients identify, integrate, manage and analyze information, in real-time and regardless of the type of information, platform or vendor.
IxReveal 4.0.3 from Intelligenxia is Web-based advanced analytics software, with pre-populated concept banks for improved performance in concept manipulation and analysis workflow, and multi-threaded batch processing for increased throughput and scalability. IxReveal's concept banks allow the data analysis process to be as specific or as general as dictated by the needs of the user. Another feature in IxReveal's latest version is improved performance, particularly for enterprise-sized servers.
Active Archive Solutions for PeopleSoft Enterprise from Princeton Softech includes additional Human Capital Management (HCM) archive templates (including Recruit Workforce) and enhanced archiving performance and capabilities for the Financial Management and Government sectors. New PeopleSoft Enterprise archive templates for HCM Recruit Workforce are essential for managing details about open positions and maintaining information about the individuals who apply for those positions. HR managers can segregate historical information about job applicants to ensure timely application performance. With enhanced support for PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management agencies concerned with audits and budget management can take advantage of archive templates that understand Government audit rules.
iReports from QlikTech Inc. is an analytics and reporting application tailored specifically for users of the SalesLogix CRM Suite. iReports uses QlikTech's QlikView business intelligence platform to give SalesLogix users powerful analysis of sales and marketing data, and can be easily deployed in a matter of days. iReports is an analytics dashboard that gives users a real-time snapshot of their sales and marketing data, including pipeline analysis, sales versus forecast and historical versus actual performance for sales and marketing campaigns.
Relationship Review from the SAVO Group establishes, standardizes and automates production of customized, data-driven customer presentations for B2B account retention and growth. A relationship review is a tool used by strategic account managers in periodic meetings with existing customers to discuss qualitative and quantitative accomplishments, milestones and future goals of the organizational partnership. When delivered effectively, relationship review presentations can accomplish objectives to entrench and grow relationships by reaching a more senior decision-making audience; demonstrating deep client insight; and uncovering cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
WebRider Enterprise Application Acceleration System 1.1 from Stampede Technologies, Inc. is a Web performance acceleration solution that accelerates Layer 5 protocols, not just HTTP/HTTPS, and adds additional configurability and usability options that take Web acceleration to the next level. WebRider maximizes the acceleration of Web-based enterprise applications through a unique combination of a hardware appliance and client-side software. In addition, client software is required for supporting devices such as phones and PDAs.
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