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House for Open Source Now Open!

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:13:00 +0100

With a tour around our new building and an afternoon full of insights into open source, Ancud IT has openend has opened its new head office. As "House of Open Source" it aims to unite open source solutions and services under one roof. Dedicating the building to open source, Ancud IT also wants to underline the growing importance of Nuremberg as open source city.

Our new head office is located in the old "Glockenhof", an old Patrician building from the 18th century. The owner, the von Grundherr family, has now carefully renovated their ancestral home preserving the ancient walls and traditional details like the roof construction. The building now offers generous and light flooded space for employees and ideas.

For the opening ceremony, we went for hard facts instead of solemn speeches: Our open soruce partners presented chances and different aspects of enterprise open source. Thomas Lederer (Alfresco), Karsten K�nigstein (Intalio), Claude Beullens (Jaspersoft), Martin Lange (Talend) and Olaf Laber (Ingres) gave us a comprehensive view on how open source can change the business. Michael Nordschild (N�rnberger Initiative f�r Kommunikationswirtschaft) and Frank Tyroff (Department of Economic Affairs, City of Nuremberg) linked the open source community to the needs of SME business in Nuremberg. Afterwards there was great food, nice talks, and interesting people to mingle with.

Some impressions of the event:

Our guests...

...managing director Konstantin B�hm...

...and the culinary climax of the event.

Data Warehousing Partnership with Infobright

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:24:00 +0100

Ancud IT will cooperate with open source data management specialist Infobright in the field of data warehousing. As System Integration Partner, Ancud IT will integrate Infobright�s data warehouse in its business intelligence platforms to provide complete open source stacks.

Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, has pioneered the development of self-managing data warehouse software. The critical need for business intelligence, coupled with the dramatic growth of corporate data, has outpaced IT's resources and budget within many companies. Infobright's technology solves this problem by delivering a highly scalable analytic data warehouse that reduces ongoing management by up to 90% and costs significantly less than other data warehouse solutions. Infobright's solution is being used by companies in online marketing, financial services, telecommunications and other industries to provide rapid access to critical business data with unmatched operational simplicity. For more information, please visit www.infobright.com.

Take a Look at New Intalio Business Edition at CeBIT 2009!

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:04:00 +0100

Ancud IT presents the new Intalio|Business Edition at CeBIT 2009. Intalio|Business Edition addresses a new market in BPM � business users who don�t need to understand some of the higher level technical skills needed by Business Analysts or IT staff. With the acquisition of the German company Process Square, Intalio|Business Edition comes into the Intalio Business Process Platform (BPP) family with a number of customers who have built processes using only staff from finance, manufacturing, or human resources departments � not your typical BPM developers. Furthermore, the processes designed by these users are fully executable with the click of a button. In order to finish tasks allocated within the processes the end user can complete the assignment within the tools they use on a daily basis such as Outlook and Notes. So, there is no need for them to switch to another application and interrupt their workflow.

You can take a look at Intalio|Business Edition at our booth E 46 in hall 6.

Intalio|Business Edition

Ancud IT CEO Konstantin B�hm will hold a speech about open source and enterprise 2.0 as steps towards a new IT at CeBIT. Enterprise 2.0 describes a new way of how people work together. The speech shows how to leverage the power of open collaborative enterprise portals in a time of deep economic change. The speech takes place at booth E50 in hall 6 at march 4, 10.15 am.

During CeBIT, you can learn more about different open source enterprise solutions at our booth: Intalio, Liferay, Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Alfresco, Talend, and Ingres.

If you are interested in Intalio|Business Edition, please contactKonstantin B�hm, telefone +49 911 - 2525 68-0

If you want to know more about enterprise open source, please contact Natalia Streck, telefone +49 911 - 2525 68-10

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Ancud IT and Jaspersoft Announce Partnership

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:24:00 +0100

Ancud IT announces a partnership with Jaspersoft, provider of the world�s most widely used open source software for business intelligence. Ancud IT will integrate Jaspersoft�s Business Intelligence Suite in its enterprise open source portal solutions. Besides Jaspersoft, Ancud IT uses the solutions Alfresco, Intalio, Liferay, Ingres and Talend. Integrated enterprise portals enable enterprises of all sizes to monitor and analyze their business data in an efficient way.

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Ancud IT to move on February 16

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:44:00 +0100

Ancud IT has expanded and is moving to the south side of Nuremberg on February 16. Our new location will provide more space for our employees, customers and ideas.

Our new address: Glockenhofstra�e 47, 90478 Nuremberg

We invite you tou the official opening on march 19. For more details see here

Open Source to be Adopted in Every Enterprise by 2009 Gartner Says

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:56:00 +0100

Next year, open source will be used in every enterprise worldwide, say Gartner analysts in a recently released study. The survey included over 250 companies and organizations all over the globe spanning various sectors of the economy. According to the survey, 85% of companies surveyed are already using open source products. The remaining 15% are planning to introduce open source within the next 12 months.

As the main reasons for adopting open source software, participants named lower total cost of ownership, slower growth of cost-prohibitive factors and easier embarkment of new IT projects. Other reasons named were to avoid the vendor lock-in and to reach a faster time to market.

Gartner also states that only 31% of respondents have coherent strategies and concepts for introducing and evaluating open source. According to the analysts, a reason for this is the assumption of open source being free of costs which is still widespread.

Gartner Names Liferay a Visionary Market Leader

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:32:00 +0200

In its latest Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, Gartner has named Liferay a Visionary and leader of the Visionary market segment. Gartners Magic Quadrant positions different portal vendors in the marketplace according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

One of twelve vendors evaluated in this year�s report, Liferay�s placement within the Visionary quadrant highlights the company�s strengths in innovation, market understanding and product development strategy.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products 2008

Alfresco Community Conference on 16 October in Munich

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:55:00 +0200

The European Alfresco community meets on October, 16 in Munich. Core of the conference is the exchange of information, ideas, product design and development plans between Alfresco users, partners and the Alfresco development team.

Program:
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome & Executive Introduction
10:00 - 11:00 Product Strategy, Vision & Roadmap
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15 Alfresco 3.0 Product Demonstration & Discussion
12:15 - 12:45 Ask The Expert Panel Session
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Business Track (Case Studies, Customer Panel)
14:00 - 16:00 Technical Track (Technical Demos, Discussions)
16:00 - 18:00 Networking Reception & Partner Expo

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Liferay European Symposium in Offenbach/Frankfurt

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:50:00 +0200

On September 23-24, the European Liferay community meets in Offenbach/Frankfurt a.M. Besides exchanging ideas and visions, there will be also several sessions about Liferay and Liferay case studies.

Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung will speak about implementing Liferay in United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development. Alexander Gundlak, Kempinski Hotels S.A., will speak about Liferays collaborative features in the Kempinski Community. There will also be case studies from BMW, HanseMerkur insurcen, and the EU-funded project Romulus.

Technical aspects of Liferay will be covered by Liferay architects and developers: Liferay and the new portlet specification JSR 286, advanced ext-environment with Tomcat, next steps in getting further Liferay architecture and UI and many more.

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Gartner Recommends Open Source Portals

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:27:00 +0200

Gartner recommends enterprises to consider open source portals as a real alternative to proprietary products. Two days ago, the research specialist published a research paper analyzing the recently announced cooperation between Sun and Liferay concerning their portal platforms.

The announcement has Gartner apparently led to reassess its sceptic perception of the open source portal market: Open source portal frameworks are worth a closer look is the core statement of the paper. One of the reasons is Liferays growing adoption by the enterprise section of the market last year. As far as Suns approach to open source is concerned, Gartner now finds it more pragmatic and serious than before. Also, with the numerous social collaboration features in its new release v. 5, Liferay is ahead of other portal competitors, even on the field of proprietary vendors.

As a result from the analysis, Gartner gives enterprises the following recommendations:

Enterprises using (Java) portals should reconsider open source alternatives for their platform. According to the paper, "the open-source approach not only lowers licensing fees and enables easier access to code � it can also provide a package that is lighter-weight, has a more modern feature set that is faster to implement and, consequently, delivers a more rapid return on investment."
Enterprises planning to implement a portal should consider Liferay if emphasizing social collaboration. If name-brand support is of great importance, Sun is a good option. Before the portal implementation, enterprises should start a pilot project using the Sun/Liferay platform.
Enterprises with a Liferay or Sun portal should develop new portlets with the new JSR 286 specification which is close to being finalized.

At the beginning of the month, Liferay and Sun had announced a business and technology partnership. Sun will offer a new portal framwork that combines own developments with core elements of Liferay Portal. Liferay will integrate Sun contributions, notably standard-based technologies like the JSR 286 portlet specification.

Gartner Research Paper

ETL Partnership with Talend

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:47:00 +0200

Ancud IT announces a partnership with Talend Open Data Solutions, provider of open source ETL solutions. Talend is the first provider of open source software for data migration and integration as well as for ETL in the field of business intelligence and data warehousing. As Platin Partner, Ancud IT will implement Talends products in data critical projects and offer trainings for talend.

Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software. After three years of intense research and development, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend's solutions are used primarily for migration and integration between operational systems, as well as for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest organizations, Talend makes enterprise-class data integration solutions affordable to organizations of all sizes.

Intalio and Ancud IT at Process Solutions Day

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:16:00 +0200

The third Process Solutions Day takes place in Frankfurt/Main on May, 27. Organized by Gesellschaft f�r Organisation (gfo), the event provides most recent and vendor-neutral information about latest trends and developments in the process management market.

Together with German partner Ancud IT, leading open source business process management provider Intalio will participate in Process Solutions Day. Arnaud Blandin, Business Development Manager at Intalio, will present Intalio |BPMS Release 5.2 and speak about open source and the process management market.

Topics include:

Best practice tips for choosing the right tool
Presentation and comparison of the most important solutions available
Process modelling
Aspects of service-oriented architecture and integration
Human workflow and process portals
Certification according to IABPM standards
Process Solution Award for consistent business process management

Program and registration

For meeting Intalio or Ancud IT at Process Solutions Day, contact Andreas Hoffmann
+49 (911) 25 25 68-51
andreas.hoffmann@ancud.de

European Alfresco Community to Meet in Barcelona

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:39:00 +0200

The European Alfresco community gathers on April 22 in Barcelona for its annual meeting. The Alfresco Community Conference is dedicated to the continuous exchange of ideas, case studies and product plans between the Alfresco Community and the Alfresco Product Design and Development team.

Participants will present Alfresco projects with the Junta de Andaluc�a, Administrao Oberta de Catalunya, and Quark Dynamic Publishing.

Further information

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. Our goal is to not only provide an open source offering but to surpass commercial offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community. Alfresco is built by a team of leading members from Documentum� and Interwoven� with 15 years experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), including the co-founder of Documentum.

Ancud IT Receives Open Source Award

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:40:00 +0200

Ancud IT receives the Ingres Partner Exellence Award for best contribution to open source. The Nuremberg-based company is rewarded for its outstanding commitment to promoting the open source business model for customer-centric innovations. Ancud IT provides solutions based on products from leading Enterprise Open Source vendors such as Ingres, Alfresco, Liferay, Pentaho, and Intalio. With these solutions companies can meet their business and IT needs with collaborative enterprise portals, business process management, business intelligence, information management, and document management.

Together with its new partners, Alfresco and Ingres, Ancud IT will deliver open source solution stacks for enterprise use. Development and delivery of the stacks is part of the partnership between the Nuremberg-based portal provider, Alfresco and Ingres.

The award was announced yesterday at the Ingres Partner Summit in Prague. Today, Ancud-CEO Konstantin Boehm will speak about open portal solutions and content management at the conference.

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Ingres Corporation
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source database management software and support services. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company�s partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.

Open Source Enterprise Bundles

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:20:00 +0100

Together with its new partners Alfresco and Ingres, Ancud IT will deliver open source solution stacks for enterprise use. Development and delivery of the stacks is part of the technology partnership between the Nuremberg-based portal provider and the US companies Alfresco and Ingres. Goal of the cooperation is to provide solution bundles based on single open source products. Ingres and Alfresco will contribute its technological knowledge on the fields of open source Information Management and Enterprise Content Management to the partnership. Ancud IT will address implementation and support needs in the area of open source portals and enterprise applications.

The bundles are based on the Ingres database and on Liferay, the open source enterprise portal. They integrate the Alfresco document management solution, the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite and the business process management tool Intalio|BPMS. With the stacks, companies can cover all their business and IT needs: collaborative enterprise portals, business process management, business intelligence, information management and document management.

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Ancud IT and SOPERA Form Strategic SOA Alliance

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:56:00 +0100

Ancud IT, solution provider for open source enterprise portals, and SOPERA, provider of an open software suite for developing and operating service-oriented architectures (SOA), announce a partnership. The partnership aims at the joint development of open source enterprise applications based on an integrated service-oriented architecture built on open standards.

With SOPERA, Ancud IT will develop a member portal for Preventive Care Club Germany GmbH (PCC). The portal is a high-grade information platform for PCC members for a successful and lasting improvement of their health and quality of life. The portal framework will be based on SOPERA. This gives PCC an open and standard compliant SOA architecture portal to boost its services. The solution contains an Adobe Flex frontend and a data backend in Java. Both parts are connected with web services using the SOPERA SOA framework.

�A comprehensive SOA approach is of growing importance to our customers�, said Konstantin B�hm, CEO of Ancud IT. �Open source SOA frameworks like SOPERA have great potential thanks to its openness and standard compliance that help to realize the concept of integration.� Dr. Ricco Deutscher, CTO of SOPERA, pointed up: �SOA and open source are two of the most important trends in IT. The combination of both helps to add flexibility to companies and organizations while reducing costs at the same time.�

SOPERA is another important puzzle piece in Ancud IT�s open source portfolio. Based in Nuremberg, Germany, Ancud IT uses leading open source products like Pentaho (business intelligence), Intalio (business process management), Liferay (portal framework) und Alfresco (document management).

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SOPERA supports companies in realizing service-oriented architectures (SOA). SOPERA is based on the SOA platform of SOA pioneer Deutsche Post. Into SOPERA has gone the experience from over five years of developing and operating the platform in a demanding enterprise environment. SOPERA is an open, modular, standard-based SOA framework, supports best-of-breed concepts and covers the entire SOA lifecycle. Independent of Deutsche Post, SOPERA GmbH offers implementation, consulting and the entire support and service for the software. For further information, please visit www.sopera.de.

Ancud IT at SYSTEMS 2007

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:03:00 +0200

Ancud IT presents its portal and ecommerce solutions for the first time at SYSTEMS 2007 at Munich Fair. From October 23 to 26, you can visit us at the leading business-to-business fair in the IT sector.

With 70% of all visitors coming from small and medium companies, SYSTEMS particularly adresses decision makers in SMEs. Being a medium sized company itself, Ancud IT sets a high value on this focus. To demonstrate our commitment to open source, we will be present at the exhibition special Perspective Open Source. Here, you find us at booth B2.110-16.

For the first time, SYSTEMS will only take place four days. As a result, it offers a much more concentrated and focused topic and hall structure: Instead of taking up six exhibition halls, the fair will be limited to five halls in the Western entrance area of Neue Messe M�nchen. With it, SYSTEMS aims to address the budgetary constraints of its exhibitors.

For more information about SYSTEMS, please clickhere

For meeting Ancud IT at SYSTEMS, write us an email, call +49 (0911) 25 25 680 or stop by at our booth B2.110-16.

Contact:
Mrs. Natalia Streck
Tel. +49 (0911) 25 25 680
messe@ancud.de

Workshop: Search Engine Optimization for SMEs

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:59:00 +0100

Did you know that over 30% of all websites are not found or hardly found? Many homepages are expensively created but do not reach their ROI goals. However, this is mostly only due to technical details.

This is your chance! Get competitive advantages through search engine optimization. As oftentimes minor adjustments are sufficient for making a website visible to search engines, also small and medium sized enterprises can achieve high ROIs even with low budget.

We address these optimization possibilities in our free workshop "Search Engine Optimization for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises" on thursday, June 28, 2007. Join us at Ancud IT in Wiesentalstra�e 32, 90419 Nuremberg!

For further information on the workshop and the registration form, please clickhere

Ancud IT at JAX

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:29:00 +0200

Meet Ancud IT at one of the most important events for IT enterprise technologies! We present our solutions at JAX Open Expo in Wiesbaden, April 23-27. JAX is known as one of the largest and most significant conferences for Java, enterprise architecture and SOA.

With more than 60 exhibitors presenting their solutions and technologies, JAX participants have the chance to meet the most renowned European speakers � experts in software technology, enterprise architectures and IT management.

At booth F5, Ancud IT presents java-based technologies like Pentaho, Intalio, Alfresco, Openbravo and Liferay.

For meeting Ancud IT, write us anemail us, call +49 911- 25 25 680 or stop by at our booth F5.

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Ancud IT and Openbravo Announce Open Source ERP Partnership

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:52:00 +0100

Ancud IT, solution provider of open source enterprise portals, announces a partnership with Openbravo, Spain-based open source ERP company. As first Openbravo partner in Germany, Ancud IT will meet the demand for affordable solutions for Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) for small and midsize enterprises on the German market. The use of Openbravo enables Ancud IT to offer flexibility and adaptability in the field of ERP to smaller enterprises without having to abandon functionality.

�We are in the process of growing our best-in-class network of partners around the world,� says Manel Sarasa, Chief Executing Officer of Openbravo. �In this regard, I am very happy to be able to announce our new partnership with leading company Ancud IT-Beratung GmbH, who will significantly help us to introduce our solution into the German market�.

With Openbravo, Ancud IT can provide an ERP solution with the same functionalities like those of commercial providers still offering the possibility of adapting it to the individual requirements of the customer. Because Openbravo is open source, there are no high licence costs or rigid support contracts which pose a great problem particularly to smaller firms.

�Openbravo is the first enterprise class ERP product on the market that meets the requirements of smaller and midsize companies�, says Konstantin Boehm, Ancud IT CEO. �Different from ERP solutions like Compiere, Openbravo is based on Java and web technologies. Our goal is to offer comprehensive business processes using web based open source enterprise portals. Our partnership with Openbravo allows us to add a valuable component to our solution portfolio.�

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Openbravo is the leading professional open source enterprise management (ERP) solution for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). Driven by open source philosophies and best-in-class services, it delivers a fully integrated, web-based ERP system tailored to the needs of any company, regardless of size or industry sector. The functionality of Openbravo is in continual growth thanks to an expanding international community of users, partners and developers. Openbravo helps companies to manage daily operations, optimize business processes, enhance customer satisfaction and ultimately increase profitability. And because it is open source, Openbravo puts the customer in full control without the overheads of contracts or licenses. In January 2006, Openbravo secured a �5 million ($6.4m) financing agreement with Sodena - record funding for an open source ERP company - to fuel further software development and international growth. Openbravo is also back to the Open Solutions Alliance - a new independent consortium to educate and inform businesses deploying open source, while promoting best practice and interoperability among vendors � as a founder member. For more information about Openbravo, please visit www.openbravo.com.

Ancud IT and Intalio Announce Partnership

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:56:00 +0100

Ancud IT, solution provider for open source enterprise portals, today announced a strategic partnership with Intalio, the leading open source business process management company. The goal of the alliance is the joint development of open source based portals for business process management. Being Intalio�s first German partner for system integration, Ancud IT will combine its enterprise portals with Intalio�s BPM capabilities, providing companies with a complete set of tools for optimizing their processes and achieving their business goals.

�The partnership with Intalio allows Ancud IT to add a valuable component to our portal applications,� said Konstantin Boehm, Ancud IT CEO. �Our customers have identified business processes management as a critical element to their ultimate success. The integration of Intalio | BPMS with our enterprise portal frameworks enables Ancud IT to deliver enhanced process portals completely based on open source that help organizations to better adapt their processes to future market challenges.�

Intalio is the leading provider of open source business process management. Intalio | BPMS is the only BPMS to natively support the BPMN and BPEL industry standards. Its graphical design tool enables business analysts to develop and deploy business processes without having to deal with code. "Ancud IT provides the knowledge and expertise to integrate Intalio|BPMS with Liferay and Pentaho. We are really pleased to partner with them", said Arnaud Blandin, Intalio EMEA Director. �I believe we have a great future together on the German market which is ready to adopt Intalio|BPMS."

Ancud IT and Intalio will also share a booth together with open source portal provider Liferay at the upcoming Open Source Meets Business conference to take place on January 23-26, 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany. Arnaud Blandin will speak at the conference and give a preview of Intalio | BPMS v.5, which will be formally launched at the Gartner BPM Summit at the end of February.

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Intalio, Inc. is the leading vendor of Open Source BPMS and helps over 5,000 organizations of all sizes get the most return on investment from their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) by developing and deploying new business processes without having to write code. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Redwood City, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Event

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:01:00 +0200

Ancud IT and Proratio announce a seminar about the Business Intelligence software Pentaho. The event �Pentaho � Open Source Business Intelligence. Overview and Practial Solutions� takes place on October 19, 2006 at the IBM Forum in Frankfurt/Main-Sossenheim. During the free event, business users and the press get the opportunity to inform about the functions and practical solutions of �Pentaho BI Suite�. US-based Pentaho is number for Open Source Business Intelligence.

Business Intelligence means the collection, providing access to and analysis of data that support companies in operating more efficiently and effectively. Business Intelligence applications increasingly gain importance because they help to optimize processes and interactions with customers, partners and suppliers.

During the event, Ancud IT and Proratio aim to introduce the BI Suite functionalities to medium- and big-sized companies as well as to interested parties and to show possibilities for business use. First, the different components of the BI Suite, Data Integration, Dashboards, Data Mining, Reporting, Analysis and Workflow, will be presented and demonstrated with the help of a demo server. The afternoon is focused on practise: Pentaho partner Proratio will present several examples for business use of the BI Suite in the field of data integration, f.e. developing an SAP interface by means of the SAP connector ProSAPCONN for a hospital solution and building a data mart for CRM in the banking sector. Pentaho partner Ancud IT will focus on the new Excel support of the BI Suite. �Pentaho Spreadsheet Services� allow users to interactively explore and analyze data directly within Excel. It works with �Pentaho Analysis Services� (Pentaho�s Mondrian OLAP Project) to deliver powerful analytical capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional proprietary OLAP and business intelligence offerings.

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Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho�s mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho�s technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting. For more information about Pentaho, please visit www.pentaho.org.

Proratio offers solutions for Business Intelligence and process optimization based on SAP software. Proratio has realized numerous projects in the field of data integration and ETL (extraction, transformation, loading). Besides trainings, workshops and consulting services, Proratio provides SAP connector ProSAPCONN for Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration). Proratio is Pentaho partner and one of the first certified solution providers. For more information about Proratio, please visit www.proratio.de.

Ancud IT Announces Partnership with Open Source Business Intelligence Provider Pentaho

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:06:00 +0200

Business portal provider Ancud IT-Beratung GmbH today announced a partnership with Pentaho Corp., the world�s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence software. Ancud IT will integrate the Pentaho Business Intelligence functionalities in its portal solutions. The goal of the partnership is to deliver sophisticated platforms for reporting, analysis, data warehousing and data mining.

With the partnership, Ancud IT and Pentaho show their commitment for developing and distributing high-quality open source applications in the field of Business Intelligence. The technology and sales cooperation gives both partners the ideal starting position for the opening of the German Business Intelligence market.

Ancud IT is planning to combine its solutions for collaboration and workflow management with the product suite of Pentaho. The results are portals that enable companies to make strategic decisions with the help of a well-founded data base and to efficiently organize their collaboration and processes with a single platform.

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho�s mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho�s technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting. For more information about Pentaho, please visit www.pentaho.org.

Ancud IT Completes Workflow Platform for HappyDigits

Mon, 15 May 2006 12:09:00 +0200

Ancud IT-Beratung GmbH has completed the open source based workflow platform "CAPassist" for CAP Customer Advantage Program GmbH (CAP). CAP runs HappyDigits, with over 25 million customers one of the biggest customer incentive programs in Germany. "CAPassist" is a workflow portal that integrates the business processes between the CAP and their external suppliers such as marketing agencies and copy shops. The portal helps to make marketing campaigns significantly faster, easier, and more cost-efficient. "CAPassist" supports the user by providing personalized task management and context sensitive menus. It provides monitoring of the production progress by means of versionizing, automatic scheduling and document management.

"CAPassist" contains the Business Intelligence application "CAPbudget". "CAPbudget" is a tool for the management, evaluation, and analysis of marketing budgets and was implemented in only seven weeks.

Ancud IT exclusively used open source software for developing both applications: The open source portal framework Liferay, the free workflow engine jBPM and the open source components Hibernate, JSF, Spring, POI and iText. Ancud IT decided to use open source software in order to keep the customer independent of manufacturers and maintenance, and to lower licence costs. To underscore the open source aspect of the project, CAP is planning to publish parts of the �CAPassist� source code on the internet.

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