CODiE Finalists: Asset Management Solution & Business/Competitive Intelligence Solution

Congratulations to the CODiE Award finalists in the business software categories Best Asset Management Solution and Best Business/Competitive Intelligence Solution!

Best Asset Management Solution awards the software solution that best audits and manages software assets. This award includes all solutions designed to audit software assets across a network environment.

Finalists are:

Best Business/Competitive Intelligence Solution recognizes the application or service that best facilitates analysis of data, research, and/or competitive information, enabling business managers to make strategic decisions. Solutions may support reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.

Finalists are:

  • Jaspersoft Business Intelligence (BI) Suite, Jaspersoft
  • SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, SAP

Winners will be announced at All About the Cloud on May 25th.

SIIA & OPEXEngine: Let the Data Set You Free!

Hear how Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics, works with her finance team to track key financial and operating metrics data to drive performance and keep the company on track to deliver growth in 2011. In addition, Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine’s comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report, developed in partnership with the SIIA. Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about how the benefits of metrics-driven, fact based decision making can help you drive better performance and efficiency within your own organization.

Presenters:
Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine
Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics

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Optimizing Web Performance for SaaS Success

In Partnership with Keynote.

Do you deliver your products or services through the Internet? Is the performance of your SaaS applications critical to the success of your business? Does not delivering on your SLAs mean lost revenue and irreparable damage to your brand?

Our panel of industry experts will deliver critical insights on:
-How Web performance impacts your business success
-Common performance issues to watch out for
-Best practices for Optimizing speed and availability
-Solutions for delivering a superior customer experience

Moderator:
Dave Karow, Senior Product Manager, Keynote
Panelists:
Ben Rushlo, Director of Performance Consulting, Keynote
Schalk Theron, Vice President of Operations, SpringCM
Richard Broome, Vice President of Operations, Host Analytics

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Accelerating Cloud Computing Adoption: Developing an Integration Strategy

Analysts have frequently cited integration as the #1 obstacle faced by Cloud and SaaS providers as buyers are no longer willing to bear the burden of the extensive IT and development resources required to connect to your application. Join Cloud industry experts from Boomi and Saugatuck Technology to explore best practices to ensure you aligned with the integration needs of your customers, and able to deliver an integration strategy that is scalable as you grow your business. Learn more about the following road map for success:

-API Design and Best Practices
-Meeting the needs of complex SaaS and on-premise integration scenarios with a flexible integration platform
-Productizing repeatable integrations

Speakers:
Mike West, Vice President, Saugatuck Technologies
Rick Nucci, CTO & Co-Founder, Boomi
Richard Broome, VP Operations, Host Analytics
Keri Brooke, VP Product Marketing, Host Analytics

Cloud Computing Predictions for 2010: Host Analytics

“Moving forward, more financial decisions will be made based on information from the cloud as opposed to proprietary on-premise data.”
Jon Kondo, CEO, Host Analytics