THINKstrategies announced today that JBara Software has been named the winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards. This program is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

JBara’s Cloud-based Customer Success Management (CSM) application provides significant improvements in customer risk alerts, satisfaction, retention, and revenue performance.  JBara’s CSM solution provides powerful analytics and dashboards to identify and display “at-risk” customers, as well as happy ones, to generate up-sell opportunities, references, and participation in joint-marketing.

Click here to read about the measurable business benefits which JBara Software has delivered to its customers which earned the company a BoSS Award.

For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html.

Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on … Read More »

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media are pleased to announce the latest round of senior executives who have agreed to speak at the Cloud Management Summit on Tuesday, June 19, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The Cloud Management Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud management solutions and share industry best practices for acquiring and administering today’s rapidly evolving Cloud alternatives to achieve their business objectives.

The following executives have agreed to speak at the Summit on June 19 to date:

Sushil Kumar, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle
Scott Martin, CIO at Chipita America
Shahin Pirooz, EVP of Engineering Operations and CTO at CenterBeam
James Urquhart, Vice President of Product Strategy, enStratus
Michael Crandell, Founder and CEO of RightScale
David Roth, CEO & Co-founder, AppFirst
Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
Russell Hertzberg, VP SaaS and ISV Solutions, SoftServe
Joseph R. Szmadzinski, CEO, IT Management … Read More »

Thirty-six CEOs, CIOs, and other senior executives, as well as industry-recognized thought-leaders from a cross-section of established and emerging companies, will convene at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, to discuss the latest innovations in Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data and Data Integration.

The one-day Summit will be hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Showplace and Rising Tide Media. It will include five keynote presentations and five executive roundtable discussions, which will examine industry best practices for harnessing today’s innovative Cloud Analytics solutions and showcase customer success stories. Click here to see the Summit agenda and here to learn more about the Summit speakers.The Summit is also being supported by twenty sponsors and seventeen partners.

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises can still take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to … Read More »

THINKstrategies announced today that Totango has been named the winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards. This program is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards are part of an ongoing THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Showplace campaign to recognize SaaS companies producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Totango is a provider of an online customer engagement platform for cloud businesses. It offers a customer engagement database that combines real time streams of user actions, plus customer information from other sources such as CRM and social networks. Totango also allows you to create customer segments in real-time based user actions and then target sales and marketing (drip) campaigns to these segments to improve user onboarding, free trial … Read More »

In anticipation of THINKstrategies’ Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I’ve been given the opportunity to provide THINKstrategies’ views in a number of online publications about the unprecedented opportunities and challenges posed by today’s rapidly evolving Cloud-based business intelligence (BI), Big Data and data integration developments.

Here are the recent commentaries which I’ve published to put these trends into perspective,

Sandhill.com: Cloud Analytics Opportunities Trump Big Data Challenges, 04/15/12
E-Commerce Times: Look Who’s Going to the Big Data Party, 04/13/12
APM Digest: The Democratization of Analytics in the Cloud, 04/05/12
ec-bp: How the Cloud is Transforming Big Data into Better Corporate Analytics and Business Intelligence, 04/03/12
Integration Developer News: How the Cloud is Transforming Analytics, Big Data and BI, 03/22/12
Datamation: The Consumerization of Cloud Analytics, 03/21/12

The Cloud Analytics Summit has assembled the best line-up of innovative thinkers and … Read More »

I’m very pleased that GoodData, Information Builders, Pervasive Software, Quantivo and Tech Data are the latest companies to sign up to participate in the Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

IT and business decision-makers from NASA, Wells Fargo Bank, and FIS, the world’s largest provider of banking and payments technology, are among the growing number of attendees coming to the Summit.

And, reporters from Forbes, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal will also be there.

Why are they all coming to THINKstrategies’ Cloud Analytics Summit?

Because “Big Data” has become one of the hottest issues facing corporate executives in businesses of all sizes across nearly every industry, and the Cloud Analytics Summit has assembled the best line-up of innovative thinkers and leading companies to discuss how the Cloud is transforming the meaning of business intelligence (BI) and data integration to meet … Read More »

CIOs and other key corporate decision-makers can take advantage of a limited supply of complimentary passes to join executives from a wide array of innovative companies who will discuss new solutions and strategies for success in Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI), ‘Big Data’ and Data Integration at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The Summit is being hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media, and will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and share best practices regarding how can Cloud BI, Big Data and Data Integration can help them meet their escalating business requirements.

Here are some of the highlights we have planned at the Summit:

Ju-kay Kwek, Product Manager of Google’s Cloud Platform team will kick off the Summit with a keynote talk about “Fulfilling the Promise of Big Data Analysis … Read More »

THINKstrategies announced today that QuorumLabs has been named the latest winner of THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s cloud computing solutions.

The CCBV Awards program was launched in 2010 to recognize Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers delivering tangible business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits include lower costs, faster deployment times, greater profitability, etc. The CCBV Award program builds on the success of THINKstrategies’ Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program which was initiated in 2009.

QuorumLabs develops innovative technologies and products that provide high availability and instant recovery of critical business systems for small to mid-sized companies. QuorumLabs’ turnkey solutions allow businesses to routinely and automatically test their recovery plan and recover failed systems with a single click.

Click here to read about the measurable business benefits that earned QuorumLabs the latest CCBV Award.

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Last week, I had the opportunity to watch the simulcast of IBM’s unveiling of its latest Smarter Analytics offerings aimed at helping organizations contend with their escalating ‘Big Data’ needs. I was particularly interested in this event because of THINKstrategies’ upcoming Cloud Analytics Summit which will examine this same topic.

IDC estimates enterprises will invest more than $120 billion to capture the business implications of their burgeoning internal and external data sources by acquiring a combination of analytics software, systems and services by 2015.

To say that IBM has made a ‘big bet’ on business intelligence (BI), big data and analytics would be an understatement. The company has acquired 28 companies focused on these areas since 2005, including Algorithmics, Coremetrics, DemandTec, Emptoris, i2, and Netezza. It has combined these assets with its internal staff to now boast over 9,000 business analytics and optimization … Read More »

A growing number of executives from industry leading companies in the Business Intelligence (BI), ‘Big Data’ and Data Integration arenas are signing up to speak at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mtn. View, CA, hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media.

The Cloud Analytics Summit will provide a forum for CIOs and other corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest innovations and share best practices regarding Cloud BI, Big Data and Data Integration to satisfy their escalating business requirements.

Kognitio has become a Marquee Sponsor of the Summit. Kognitio’s Vice President of Cloud Solutions, Ian Bird, will present a keynote talk entitled, “Measuring the Success of Today’s Cloud Analytics, BI and Big Data Solutions.”

Alteryx and CloudTrigger have also become Title Sponsors of the Summit. Alteryx’s CEO, George Mathew, will be participating in the “Redefining BI and Analytics in the … Read More »