Best Business or 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.

Products nominated here are eligible for the Best Operations Management Solution and Best Information Management Solution supercategories.

Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator - Cloud9 Analytics With Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator, sales managers gain complete pipeline and forecast visibility, anytime and anywhere – including critical, real-time “what’s changed” information. Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator reveals data that simply isn’t viewable in CRM systems. And what you can’t see, you can’t proactively manage. Have more predicatble sales forecasts, effective 1-on-1 rep coaching sessions, and productive weekly sales meetings. Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator enables you to: •Know which forecasted deals have changed •Create Watchlists for reps’ top deals •Assist reps in qualifying out low quality leads •Proactively uncover risks and opportunities •Compare teams percentage of attainment against goals Go To Cloud9 Analytics' Web Site Go To Product Site
Passport - Euromonitor International Syndicated global database focused on industries, country and consumer market intelligence. Sold to multinational companies and educational institutions worldwide. Go To Euromonitor International's Web Site Go To Product Site
Host Analytics Corporate Performance Management Suite - Host Analytics Inc. Founded in 2000, Host Analytics is driving fact-based decisions throughout the organization based on sound financial justification. As the only SaaS-delivered full CPM suite, it improves budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting & analysis. Beyond the benefits of improved decision making, in cost-reduction alone, the suite delivers > 200 % ROI 1 year. Go To Host Analytics Inc.'s Web Site Go To Product Site
InsideView for Sales - InsideView InsideView solves for the sales profession what the Bloomberg terminal solved for Wall Street: information overload, intelligence and greater revenue productivity. Today's sales people are flooded with tens of thousands of data points about their competitors, leads and prospects, whether it's from social media sources to traditional business information services. But the mandate to meet quota has never changed. InsideView provides real-time intelligence by gathering and analyzing information from 25,000+ sources - including social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook), news, blogs, user-contributed (Pandora, SimplyHired) and traditional business information providers (Thomson Reuters, Capital IQ, etc.) - for any contact, lead, prospect, territory and/or competitor. InsideView then displays this holistic intelligence (from triangulated accurate contact info to what concert the person just attended to a view of their company's fiscal health) into any major CRM platform, as well as provides trigger notifications ("Company X just made an acquisition"; "Prospect Y just got a promotion"; "Competitor Z just landed a new customer"; etc.) It even tells the end-user sales professional when and how they might know a relevant contact by analyzing the entire web and social graph for any existing relationship (beyond LinkedIn - e.g. "You worked with Joe Schmoe five years ago, who was a customer of Contact. Contact's new company is now a partner with your friend Bob Smith.") This intelligence is imperative for sales outreach today: working smarter and under greater relevancy to improve the sales cycle and close more deals - in fact, analyst firm CSO Insights recently concluded that the kind of sales intelligence InsideView provides increases any company's top-line revenue by at least ten percent. InsideView has had a breakout year. Its user base has grown from 20,000 to 75,000 end users, its revenue has increased 135% and the company now has more than 1,000 market-leading companies using its product within their existing CRM platforms, including Adobe, BMC, Cap Gemini, Experian, and SuccessFactors. InsideView is successfully platform-neutral: it's a top-rated free app on the Salesforce.com AppExchange, an elite Certified for Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner, will be available out-of-the-box in late spring with SugarCRM, and integrates seamlessly with SAP and Oracle CRMs. We are honored to be a finalist in for the Best Business/Competitive Intelligence CODiE. Thanks for learning more about InsideView, and we'll see you at All About the Cloud, where our CEO Umberto Milletti will be speaking this very issue of social and sales intelligence in the enterprise. Go To InsideView's Web Site Go To Product Site
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence (BI) Suite - Jaspersoft Jaspersoft BI Suite is the most widely used enterprise-strength open source BI platform w/ advanced production reporting, end-user ad-hoc query, dashboards, data analysis & exploration. It’s easy to deploy incrementally & cost effective for the enterprise, SMBs & ISVs. Jaspersoft’s code base is freely available & extensible, w/ no limit on how you can tailor BI capabilities to your organization. Go To Jaspersoft's Web Site Go To Product Site
Roambi - MeLLmo Roambi, by MeLLmo, is an innovative mobile application for connecting on-the-go workers with critical business information via secure, mobile dashboards on any iPad or iPhone. Roambi makes business reports and data convenient to access, navigate, and interact with right from a handheld device, providing the clarity and insight needed for smart decision making and impromptu presentations – anytime, anywhere. Go To MeLLmo's Web Site Go To Product Site
Plex Online - Plex Systems, Inc. Plex Online is a Cloud ERP manufacturing software solution that offers technologically advanced features for every department within a manufacturer. Its fully integrated model delivers a complete view of operations, providing business intelligence across the enterprise’s entire supply chain. Plex Online was launched in automotive. It has expanded over time, continuing to serve automotive manufacturers in new ways, while evolving rapidly as a solution for aerospace/defense, medical devices, food/beverage and more. With a user-friendly interface, completely integrated features, revolutionary subscription-only pricing and industry-leading disaster recovery capabilities, Plex Online is a breakthrough technology helping manufacturers meet regulatory, safety, quality, supply-chain, cost, productivity challenges. Plex Online is a true innovation: the first Cloud solution for manufacturers. While peers have taken client-server databases and applied them in hosting models to simulate a Cloud environment, Plex Online is authentic Cloud. It doesn’t require servers, operating systems, databases, hardware, or IT resources. Web-hosted Plex Online consistently provides real-time data, accessible anytime anywhere with virtually no downtime. Its complete integration enables users to manage single points of data entry without replication. Plex Online includes 400-plus modules, supporting more than 35,000 daily users in 2,500 interconnected supplier locations globally with a robust network of secure servers. Plex Online integrates business intelligence across critical functions. It provides integrated quality management, ERP/MRP functionality and inventory tracking, for instance. It facilitates root-cause analyses and corrective actions, including a formalized process for issue notification and problem reporting. The system seamlessly ties together production, maintenance and quality data via PLC equipment. For instance, tooling data is tied with parts data so users know exactly how many parts to run with each tool before that tool needs maintenance. Plex Online creates efficiencies in quality control and supply chain management through the use of barcoding technology. When users scan a barcode on an order, they read all the items required at each stage of assembly/processing. They then scan barcoded parts for each step to ensure products are assembled or processed correctly. The barcode data enables improved traceability. Users can track product data across their entire supply chain to the flawed part or case number. If a part is bad, they access an advanced traceability tree that identifies every component that went into that part and all parts that the flawed component went into. Plex Online meets needs that are unique to highly regulated manufacturers such as those in medical and food. For example, one food customer needed to identify certain raw materials, including peanut oil, as potential allergens. Plex Online automatically added allergen symbols on the barcodes of those potentially life-threatening products and materials so the materials were identified across the supply chain. To ensure its technology advances are customer-driven, Plex Systems has a Customer Advisory Board of volunteer users that meets regularly to recommend and drive product enhancements. Plex Systems holds three U.S. patents for Plex Online’s user interface and it owns the registered trademark for Scanban® — Plex Online’s barcoded electronically tracked Kanban Card. Go To Plex Systems, Inc.'s Web Site Go To Product Site
SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand - SAP Business Objects OnDemand SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand is a complete, turnkey business intelligence solution that provides instant insight for the rest of us. It's easy to learn and to explore, report, and share. Because it's online, it's affordable, free to try, and users can be up and running quickly without a complex technology project. Go To SAP Business Objects OnDemand's Web Site Go To Product Site
Capital IQ - Standard & Poor Capital IQ Capital IQ delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,200 investment managers, investment banks, private equity funds, advisory firms, corporations, and universities worldwide. Capital IQ's mission is to change the way global professionals gather and analyze information, so they can work faster, better, and smarter. Go To Standard & Poor Capital IQ's Web Site Go To Product Site

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