'Birst'-ing Onto the Cloud-BI Scene
by Alex Woodie

Companies in the market for a full function business intelligence product they can access from the cloud may want to check out Birst. The San Francisco company, which launched a new BI interface for smartphones last week, says its customers get the equivalent of a fully integrated BI suite like Cognos, but at just 20 percent of the total cost, and a fraction of the complexity, thanks to automated tools and the software as a service (SaaS) and cloud delivery method. READ MORE >

inFORM Introduces High Speed Batch Scanning
by Dan Burger

There's little question that business documents can be better managed and workflows streamlined by converting paper to digital files. Cost savings related to information that is easy to access for a variety of workers come along with that. How to tackle the conversion process and what to pay for the software are questions that face numerous companies. So a new product release by inFORM Decisions that brings batch scanning, at a low price point may surprise some of you. READ MORE >

RTC Partners with Manthan to Sell BI to Retailers
by Alex Woodie

Retail Technologies Corp. (RTC), a software developer and IBM business partner that serves U.S. retailers, recently announced a partnership with Manthan Systems, an Indian developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions geared specifically toward the retail industry. RTC has high expectations for Manthan's BI product, called ARC, especially among its customer base of small and medium-sized retailers that run JDA software on IBM i systems. READ MORE >

10ZiG Welcomes WES 7 as New Thin Client OS
by Alex Woodie

10ZiG Technology is now selling two thin clients pre-loaded with the embedded version of the Windows 7 operating system. The Phoenix, Arizona, company, which supports 5250 emulation on most of its thin client devices, claims that it is the first thin client vendor to support the new Microsoft operating system. READ MORE >