Panorama Business Intelligence

Microsoft Israel and Panorama invite you to a live event that will be taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 25, 2010. We’ll have a special guest speaker – Amir Netz, one of the key PowerPivot project leaders (and was formerly a part of the Panorama team!). Amir, together with Kobi, Averbuch – VP of R&D at Panorama – will discuss PowerPivot as a self-service BI solution, and how you can unleash the power of PowerPivot in an enterprise environment.

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We’ll see you there!

Organizations maintain databases mainly because they expect to obtain valuable insights from them. But in some cases, getting insights from data can be quite a challenge. For organizations that are planning to upgrade to MS SQL Server 2008 R2, including Office / SharePoint 2010, this is about to change with the introduction of the most innovative self-service BI.

PowerPivot, part of the SharePoint 2010 release, is a powerful in-memory engine that allows users to extract large amounts of data from multiple sources, including corporate databases, Excel spreadsheets and external sources, in a very quick & efficient way. It uses an in-memory, column-based storage to enable users to build models in self-service mode, “on the fly”, without having to pre-aggregate or build cubes prior to querying.

NovaView for PowerPivot enables users to leverage this in-memory platform and perform advanced analysis, build pixel perfect reports, create executive dashboards or share the results through SharePoint – all in a secured environment (with data level granularity) and sourcing natively from the PowerPivot platform.

Join us for a webinar, featuring a special guest – Derek Comingore, a SQL Server MVP, speaker at national SQL Server user groups and a published author on SQL Server topics. You will learn more about PowerPivot and how you can empower your users with quick, self-service BI, leveraging your existing investment in the Microsoft platform.

This webinar will showcase how you can:

- Put BI at the fingertips of business users

- Enable users to perform advanced analysis in a fully web-based environment

- Share the results and insights generated in the process with the masses

- Leverage your existing investment in SQL, Office and SharePoint in all their versions

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
10:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM CET – Europe

11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET – Americas

Wednesday July 21, 2010
9:30 AM IST / 1:00 PM KST / 2:00 PM AEST – Asia Pacific

A couple of weeks ago I participated in the Microsoft Western European ISV summit which took place in Portugal. Aside from the obvious fact that Portugal is a beautiful country and we stayed in a wonderful resort, I thought I would share with you some content and feedback from the summit. Microsoft hosted about 40 leading Europeans ISVs. The level of the people who participated was certainly top management. From the business side, I met with CEOs and Managing Directors, and from the technical side, I met mostly with CTOs and Chief Architects. Most of those ISVs are locally managed by Microsoft, hence the partner management level from Microsoft also attended the event. When thinking about it, I believe those leading ISVs serve probably about 40-50% of all the organizations in Europe… which means that every decision they make as an outcome of this conference, will probably have an effect on millions and millions of people. Quite a big power!

Moreover, Microsoft brought their top people from EMEA and also from Redmond (although some got stranded because of the Volcano and the travel disruptions, but I will discuss it later).

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Microsoft just launched SQL Server 2008 R2 that includes Office / SharePoint 2010 and in-memory capabilities (PowerPivot). Panorama Software has always been strongly aligned with Microsoft’s BI strategy and our new product is fully optimized for this new platform.

We are proud to announce the release of the latest version of Panorama NovaView 6.2, the first BI solution to augment the PowerPivot platform by adding more self-service BI capabilities and a missing data level security layer, making it ready for enterprise wide deployments.

Join us for a special launch event where you will learn about upgrades and new products in NovaView BI suite:

- Integration & added value to MS Office / SharePoint 2010
- Native connectivity, a data level security layer & self-service BI capabilities in PowerPivot
- Oracle relational DB support
- And much more!

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Panorama is launching the new NovaView for PowerPivot at the upcoming Microsoft SQL & BI event which will be taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 30-31, 2010. We invite our customers & partners in Israel to join us in this event to learn more about Microsoft’s new in-memory engine and how you can extend and make it enterprise ready with Panorama NovaView.

Everyone is excited about Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010 launch, and many have shown interest in extending those tools enterprise wide with an end-to-end BI solution that will satisfy the needs of the most advanced users as well as the broader information worker community.

Join us for the session to see the only BI solution specifically designed for the MS Platform supporting relational, OLAP and PowerPivot data sources. The session will focus on tight integration with PowerPivot that enables users to perform even more sophisticated analysis, build interactive reports or create executive dashboards – all in a fully secure and collaborative manner for teams and groups, sourcing natively from PowerPivot.You will learn about new innovative ways to instantly access and analyze PowerPivot cubes with unified data security system, making PowerPivot ready for enterprise wide deployments.

You will learn how to:

- Leverage your existing investment in SQL, Office and SharePoint in all their versions
- Make PowerPivot ready for enterprise wide deployments
- Offer simple, self-service BI to the information workers
- Give analysts powerful tools to find hidden insights

When:
8:00am – 9:15am on June 9, 2010
(room 240)

We hope to see you there!

TORONTO, ON (April 21, 2010) – Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the launch of NovaView for PowerPivot, a comprehensive business intelligence suite built on top of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot platform that revolutionizes the BI market with its managed self-service BI capability and in-memory engine. Panorama NovaView for PowerPivot, part of the NovaView for Office 2010 release, adds unique dimensions and capabilities to the PowerPivot platform, making it easier to use, more functional and enterprise ready.

NovaView for PowerPivot brings unique self-service BI capabilities like intuitive web interface, advanced analytics and a data level security layer, providing new ways for analysts and information workers to generate impactful insights and make better decisions. By natively connecting to the PowerPivot in-memory models, Panorama NovaView enables users to perform even more sophisticated analysis, including smart exceptions, instant calculations, data formatting and much more. With Panorama for PowerPivot, information workers can build pixel perfect reports, create executive dashboards or deliver insights directly to their Microsoft Office Outlook application, elevating it to a complete BI solution for the Microsoft’s new in-memory platform.

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Managers everywhere have been transfixed on putting more relevant data in the hands of information workers. They know that the right facts and data empower users to generate key insights and make better decisions. To do that, business users require inviting, user-friendly analytical tools to interact with data in a meaningful way.

Microsoft PowerPivot, part of the SharePoint 2010 release, is the ultimate in-memory platform for personal & team productivity. With PowerPivot, users can integrate data from multiple sources, including corporate databases, Excel spreadsheets and external sources, and using familiar tools gain greater power and analysis capacity.

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In the last two weeks, we hosted two webinars around PowerPivot with Derek Comingore—and the response was phenomenal! Not only did we get more than 800 new registrations, but the Q & A session at the end was very engaging and offered some thought-provoking discussion. The overwhelming response validates the market’s demand for PowerPivot and the crucial role it will play for many companies. Businesses continue to look at how they can add more advanced analytics on top of this new in-memory platform – as well as a data security layer for team- and enterprise-wide collaboration.

For those of you who couldn’t attend, the webinar explored three key topics. First, we discussed the benefits of PowerPivot that enable quick, “on the fly” analytics and how is can be utilized alongside the SQL Server. Next, we explored an area where Panorama’s expertise really shines through: how to extend the value of PowerPivot with advanced analytics and a complete BI solution (analytics, reporting, dashboards, KPIs and more). And finally, the webinar demonstrated how to make PowerPivot enterprise-ready for secured team, departmental and corporate collaboration.

Couldn’t make the webinar or didn’t hear about it in time? Don’t worry. We included a link to the archived event below—plus, more resources for building on PowerPivot and on how NovaView complements the platform and facilitates enterprise-readiness.

PowerPivot Webinar Archive

PowerPivot PPT Presentation

NovaView for PowerPivot Demo

More info Panorama for PowerPivot

Would love to get your feedback on the webinar and our solution for PowerPivot!

Due to a very high demand for our webinar with Derek Comingore around PowerPivot, we will be repeating this webinar again next week to give you a change to learn more about Microsoft’s new in-memory platform that enables quick, “on the fly” analytics and how you can utilize it in your organization alongside with SQL Server.

Webinar: Unleash the Power of PowerPivot
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Time: 10am ET / 4pm CET

In-memory business intelligence has gotten a lot of traction over the last few years and Microsoft is now revolutionizing the BI market with PowerPivot, it’s new in-memory engine that allows quick, “on the fly” analytics.

With PowerPivot, users can integrate data from multiple sources including corporate databases, Excel spreadsheets and external sources, using familiar tools but gaining greater power and analysis capacity. Many organizations have shown interest in extending this new in-memory platform with a complete business intelligence suite and making it ready for enterprise wide deployments.

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