NEPC Selects InvestorForce for Performance Reporting

Conshohocken, PA (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

InvestorForce, Inc., the leading provider of performance reporting and data intelligence tools for institutional investment consultants, is pleased to announce an agreement with NEPC, LLC, one of the worlds largest independent investment consultants. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and with six additional offices across the U.S., NEPC provides investment consulting services to 309 clients with over $ 665 billion in total assets under advisement.

InvestorForces fully integrated platform will bring significant efficiencies to our performance reporting process, supporting our clients diverse reporting needs and allowing us to grow and scale our business in a cost effective manner, said Dan Kelly, Chief Operating Officer of NEPC. InvestorForces product vision aligns very nicely with our strategic goals, and we look forward to leveraging products such as InvestorForces Manager COLLECT to speed and automate the collection of account-level performance data and holdings directly from money managers.

InvestorForces end-to-end solution streamlines a consultants reporting process from data collection through to report production, delivering unparalleled efficiencies and flexibility.

We are thrilled to have NEPC join our growing client roster, said Jim Morrissey, CEO of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based InvestorForce. NEPC has been a leader in the institutional investment consulting space for more than 25 years, and we look forward to providing advanced analytics, data intelligence and decision support tools to support NEPCs delivery of the best possible investment decisions to both their traditional and discretionary consulting clients. The firms are also planning to work together to integrate enhanced risk measurement solutions into the InvestorForce platform.

Cambridge Semantics Unveils Anzo Express Starter to Address Excel Integration, Collaboration and Reporting Challenges


San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 04, 2012

At the 2012 Semantic Technology & Business Conference today, Cambridge Semantics announced a new, free downloadable version of the companys Anzo Express software. Anzo Express allows business users to link together data stored in multiple spreadsheets enabling real-time collaboration right in Microsoft Excel. Anzo Express also provides a dynamic, business-friendly web-based analytic dashboard for real-time reporting on data in spreadsheets and relational databases. Companies including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Staples and GroupM, are already using Anzo to solve their key data management challenges.

Cambridge Semantics will be presenting Anzo Express with a live demo at SemTech in San Francisco on June 5th. Visit http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/ for the complete agenda.

Organizations are facing increasingly dynamic environments where business requirements change almost daily. Traditional databases lack the ability to quickly adapt to change and have driven business users to rely on Excel spreadsheets for key business operationsfrom supply chain management to compliance information management, competitive intelligence to budget reconciliation. IT departments have tried to replace spreadsheets with more governable services but have failed to do so because traditional technologies are not as flexible as spreadsheets.

Semantic Web technologies are significantly more flexible than traditional databases and can better adapt to changing requirements, making them uniquely suited to solving the spreadsheet data integration problem. With Anzo Express ordinary users can easily collaborate and report on data stored in Excel and relational databases, transforming disparate spreadsheet data into powerful business insights.

Semantic Web technologies have been gaining momentum as businesses require greater flexibility. However there is still a steep and tedious learning curve for everyday users who need powerful tools and scalable applications, said Lee Feigenbaum, co-founder of Cambridge Semantics. With Anzo Express businesses can get the best of both worlds. End users can continue to use Excel, only with significantly greater ability to share data between spreadsheets and departments, while IT, for the first time, gets the ability to govern, track, and report on data within those spreadsheets.

As the entry-level version of the full Anzo Enterprise software suite, Anzo Express focuses on addressing collaborative spreadsheet integration and web dashboards. This is the first time Anzo Express has been available as a free download, enabling much greater adoption for business users. From compliance reporting to supplier tracking, Anzo Express solves the Excel reporting and integration challenges that every organization faces.

In addition to showcasing Anzo Express Starter at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference, Cambridge Semantics customer Staples will be presenting a use case of how the company uses Anzo to manage their complex enterprise service bus (ESB). Attendees can also visit the Cambridge Semantics booth (#101) and learn more about recent offerings such as Anzo Unstructured.

Featured Cambridge Semantics sessions at the 2012 Semantic Technology & Business Conference include:

Business Intelligence Leader EMANIO, Inc. Announces Immediate Availability of its Context! 6.0 Dashboarding and Reporting Software


Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Business intelligence, analytics and visual data discovery software vendor EMANIO announces immediate availability of its Context! 6.0 dashboarding and data analysis platform.

EMANIO, Inc. continues to revolutionize the way business users interact with data.

The latest release brings continued new enhancements to the 100% point-and-click interface and couples new features that make data discovery and analysis even easier – especially for business users.

We are very excited about this new version commented Walter Paliska VP of Marketing and Analytics for EMANIO. This latest release makes it even easier for data consumers to quickly and easily analyze trends and discover patterns in seconds. A powerful new drill anywhere function allows business users to drill into the detail of all data sources and types within a database.

Context! 6.0 also continues the evolution of the user interface making it even easier for report consumers and report writers to interact with their data and to create powerful, easily understood reports and interactive dashboards. “As an organization we believe that the world is in the state it’s in because people make awful decisions. Context! 6.0 continues the evolution of our goal of providing easy to use, affordable data analysis tools that will help people make better decisions faster.” Continued Mr. Paliska.

Context! 6.0 will be available to all customers beginning March 7th 2012. For more information visit EMANIO’s Web site or contact EMANIO at (510) 849-9300.

About EMANIO

EMANIO combines almost 20 years of data integration experience with highly interactive and intuitive business intelligence, analytics and visual data discovery software solutions that enable large and mid-size organizations to make better business decisions quicker. EMANIOs Context! and Insight! products are highly intuitive, easy-to-use , browser-based business intelligence (BI), dashboarding and predictive analysis solutions, designed using a state-of-the art, zero-footprint architecture for rapid deployment, fast ROI and low cost of ownership.

Visit http://www.EMANIO.com to learn more.

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