PRESS RELEASE
November 15, 2010
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SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI OnDemand Solution Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award
SaaS-Based Analytics Solution Enables Organizations to Quickly and Easily Gain the Benefits of Business Intelligence
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Wellesley, Mass. – November 15, 2010 - THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand solution has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
The BoSS Awards program is an ongoing program that recognizes companies delivering SaaS solutions that produce tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.
SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand is an intuitive, turnkey business intelligence solution that allows business people with no prior experience to explore, report and share information inside or outside the company. Because it’s on demand, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand can be acquired and setup in minutes, without a long technology project. It’s available standalone or can integrate with existing on-premise or on-demand investments, delivering improved productivity and greater insight for more informed decision making.
A company experiencing the business benefits of SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand is GENBAND, a Texas-based global supplier of next-generation IP infrastructure that also uses Salesforce.com’s customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Angie Reese, GENBAND’s CRM application manager was looking for a business intelligence solution that would provide GENBAND with greater analytic capabilities and insight about its customers. By adopting SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, GENBAND has been able to generate powerful reports that can be more easily shared across its organization. The automated report-generation capabilities have saved GENBAND a minimum of eight to 10 hours per week in staff time. It has also been able to improve GENBAND’s sales tracking and customer service capabilities as the company grew rapidly from approximately 400 to 2,200 employees.
It is for these reasons that SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has been named a Best of SaaS Showplace Award winner. A summary of the company's winning BoSS Award submission can be found at http://www.saas-showplace.com/awardSummary.php?key=1915.
“We are very pleased to be chosen as the Best of SaaS Showplace for our SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution,” said Holly Simmons, senior director, OnDemand Marketing, SAP. “Our SaaS BI portfolio is designed to help people do their jobs better by giving them the data they need – anywhere, anytime. This is great recognition of the business value our solutions provide customers.”
"Gaining access to timely and useful analytic data is increasingly important in today’s challenging economic environment,” stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Founder of the SaaS Showplace and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the strategic consulting firm that conceived and administers the Showplace. "SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand’s measurable benefits illustrate why SaaS-based solutions are appealing to organizations of all sizes."
A list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards can be found at http://www.saas-showplace.com/registerforbossaward.html.
Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, go to http://www.thinkstrategies.com/cloudcomputingawards.html.
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About the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards
The BoSS Award program is an ongoing initiative to identify and promote SaaS, and 'cloud computing', companies which are offering on-demand solutions which are generating measurable business benefits for their customers.
BoSS awards nominations are accepted on an ongoing basis, and more than one winner can be awarded in each SaaS Showplace Application, Industry and Enabling Technology Supplier category.
For more information or to nominate a BoSS award winner, go to http://www.saas-showplace.com/registerforbossaward.html.
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About the SaaS Showplace
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® is a service of THINKstrategies, Inc. This Showplace was established in 2006 to provide the following benefits,
- Give enterprise decision-makers a quick directory of the leading SaaS providers and a convenient source of valuable insight regarding SaaS trends.
- Give SaaS providers a targeted tool to increase their visibility among enterprise decision-makers, and gain access to key enabling technology suppliers.
- Give enabling technology suppliers a specialized platform to increase industry awareness regarding their SaaS solutions.
The SaaS Showplace is now the largest and highest ranked, vendor-independent, online directory and resource center of industry best practices in the SaaS market. For more information, go to www.saas-showplace.com.
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About THINKstrategies, Inc.
THINKstrategies, Inc. is the only strategic consulting services company formed specifically to address the unprecedented business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers and investors today as the technology industry shifts toward a services orientation.
THINKstrategies' mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies, and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives. THINKstrategies helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies, IT solutions providers with their marketing strategies, and VCs with their investment strategies.
In addition to the Software-as-a-Service Showplace, THINKstrategies is also the founder of the Managed Services Showplace, a vendor-independent, online directory and information resource center of managed service solutions.
For more information regarding THINKstrategies' unique consulting services, visit www.thinkstrategies.com, or contact us at info@thinkstrategies.com.
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