Panorama Business Intelligence

An interesting interview with Rony Ross, the Founder of Panorama Software, that was posted on Israel Innovation 2.0:

Last month I posted an interview with Rony Ross about being a successful woman in technology. Aside from this, we also discussed in depth the business intelligence software company that she founded, Panorama Software, including its growth over the years, business intelligence (BI) trends and what we can expect from Panorama this year. Here is that part of our discussion.

Panorama Software was founded in 1993 and moved its headquarters to North America in 2003, what factors went into the decision to move the headquarters?

In 2002, Panorama realized that the marketplace for its products is growing and decided to become a global company. We decided we needed a North American presence, including sales, marketing, support, finance and product management and that moving the headquarters to North America was a logical step.

We evaluated various locations, and were determined to concentrate on locations that had daily direct flights to Israel. One of Panorama’s directors suggested Toronto, Canada. It was deemed a great choice, both for the favorable (at the time) value of the Canadian Dollar vs. the US dollar, as well as having daily direct flights to Israel.

What steps did the move entail?
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Great post from Datacentrix, our partner in South Africa!

The recent tightening in partnership between Microsoft and Panorama Software bodes well for those companies wanting to complete their BI offerings with the delivery of a fast, powerful BI front-end.

“The combination of Panorama and Microsoft BI provides users with a powerful, end-to-end BI offering delivering rapid insight and allowing for speedy decision making,” says Anton Jacobsz, sales executive at Datacentrix.

As a ProfitBase Authorised Reseller, Datacentrix maintains that Panorama’s NovaView suite of proactive BI solutions opens a new world for local users of ProfitBase 2009, a scalable, rapidly configured, graphical, data warehouse and OLAP Cube deployment accelerator for Microsoft SQL Server.

Jacobsz says that, following the recent release of Panorama’s NovaView 6 and the technical preview announcement of Office 2010, together, Panorama and Microsoft have extended BI to even more users across the globe. NovaView 6.0 combines numerous features, from query and analysis, formatted reporting, performance dashboard and KPI scorecards, to modeling, advanced visualisation and automated report distribution. Not only does it boast an even more robust platform designed to bring more users to BI, but also new deployment wizards and applications to make it Panorama’s biggest release at this point.

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

Join Microsoft and Panorama teams as we discuss an end-to-end BI solution that brings together the best of SQL, Office and SharePoint with Panorama NovaView suite, enabling users to perform even deeper analysis in a web environment.

We will also demonstrate tight integration with PowerPivot (Microsoft’s new in-memory engine) that enables users to perform even more sophisticated analysis, build interactive reports or create executive dashboards – all sourcing natively from PowerPivot.

This webcast will showcase how you can:

- Leverage your existing investment in SQL, Office and SharePoint in all their versions
- Give analysts powerful tools to find hidden insights
- Make BI simpler for business users
- Create interactive reports on top of any data: OLAP, in-memory (PowerPivot), relational and Spreadsheets

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/421096121

As the IT industry enters 2010, Panorama Software is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary of excellence in the business intelligence community. From Panorama’s first generation OLAP product (acquired by Microsoft) through the sixth generation NovaView, the first BI solution to work in the cloud, to today’s complete hybrid solution, the company has represented a hotbed of innovation for the IT community.

“When we launched our first product release out of Israel in March 1995, developers coming out of the Israeli army were turning the location into a hotbed for IT creativity and innovation,” said Rony Ross, founder and chairperson of Panorama Software. “Since then, we’ve helped launch the first web-deployed, cloud-enabled and now fully hybrid business intelligence platforms in the industry.”

The first generation product helped companies deploy a smart, optimized multi-dimensional database to handle the huge amounts of data they were accumulating in their corporate databases, making the data available for analysis in a friendly and easy to use EIS (Executive Information System) environment. In October 1996, Microsoft acquired the Panorama OLAP technology, which was further developed and rebranded as SQL Server Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server platform.
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There is an ongoing discussion in Israel about women in the sciences and technology and the conditions women find themselves in in the field. The discussion was renewed by the Jerusalem Post in October 2009 after Israel’s Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize in chemistry when it published a piece on the difficulties of receiving research grants and getting a fair salary in Israel. Shortly thereafter I continued my series on women in tech with a post about some of the unique challenges that women face in Israel.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Rony Ross, the founder and current chairwoman of Panorama Software, a business intelligence software company. Ross was born and raised in Israel and overcame challenges as a female entrepreneur to grow Panorama into the successful company that it is today.

Read the full interview at Women in Technology: Rony Ross, Panorama Software (Interview)

When 2008 drew to a close just twelve months ago, the extent of the damage caused by the economic crisis was continuing to unfold, and the outlook for 2009 was pretty dismaying and bleak. After discussing the future with some fellow CEOs, I found that many of them shared the same sentiment: “2009 is a ‘dead horse’ for us. We just have to weather this one through. We’ll have to wait until 2010 for the turnaround…”

Was 2009 a “lost year” from a business perspective?

It was, if you only measure the year by growth. Most companies exhibited slow, minimal growth—if any at all.

But, for many, 2009 was a great opportunity. It was a year of a return to profitability, with many companies reporting negative growth somewhat offset by growing EBITDA ratios. It was the year to get closer to your customers—because their support would enable you to drive business in these troublesome times. It was the year to focus on what your company does best. It was the year that helped pull us out of the weeds and build a greater understanding of our businesses. So, for those of you who recognized the value that such a downturn can bring, it was the year of challenges that—with a little ingenuity, confidence and effort—turned into opportunities.

Thank you, 2009!

To get the most out of your Microsot SQL Server Platform, you need to ensure that you take advantage of all the unique capabilities it provides. While some BI tools are available from Microsoft directly, many have shown interest in extending those tools with a complete end-to-end Business Intelligence solution.

Join us for a webinar, to see the most powerful, end-to-end BI solution that helps expand the reach of BI through innovative user interface, gives more power to the advanced users and extends collaboration inside and outside the firewall.

And now, through the global partnership between Panorama and Microsoft and tighter integration with PowerPivot, Sharepoint and Office 2010, Panorama NovaView provides an even better end user experience that can accommodate the needs of the most demanding enterprise companies.

Come see the BI solution that has been awarded silver in the Best Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool category by SQL Server magazine!

This webinar will showcase how you can:

- Make BI simpler for end users
- Extend the reach of existing reports to more information workers
- Give analysts powerful tools to find hidden insights that could make a big impact
- Create interactive reports on top of any data (OLAP, relational and spreadsheets)

When:

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
10:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM CET
or
11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Register for the Webinar Now >>

Panorama Software has been awarded silver in the Best Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool category by SQL Server magazine.

SQL Server, the only independent magazine dedicated to covering Microsoft’s SQL Server, is a technical resource for developers, database administrators and business intelligence architects. The magazine awarded Panorama Software as the silver winner in the business intelligence category for our latest release of NovaView 6.

This award is just another proof that NovaView 6 is the most powerful, end-to-end Business Intelligence suite for the Microsoft platform on the market today. It provides an integrated approach to bringing more users to BI, giving more power to the advanced users and easing collaboration inside and outside the firewall. And now through the tighter integration with PowerPivot, Sharepoint and Office 2010, Panorama NovaView provides an even better end user experience that can accommodate the needs of the most demanding BI users in the organization.

SQL Server published an in depth feature for its annual Editors’ Choice Awards in the December issue. To read more please visit www.sqlmag.com.

Managers everywhere have been transfixed on putting more relevant data in the hands of information workers because they know that the right facts and data empower users to make impactful decisions with positive results.

Today’s information worker uses reports to create a snapshot of aggregated data that gives them the initial effective information necessary to do their jobs correctly. What most users still don’t have is the ability to combine their own perspective with the data to freely navigate the data, pivot it, and generate unique insights.

Join us for a webinar where we will demonstrate how you can empower your users with self-service analytics and get BI on every desktop in a comprehensive and cost effective way.
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I found an interesting review of Panorama Software’s latest product by one of the NovaView users. Enjoy it!

“I’m very glad to say that not too long ago I got to see a demo on Panorama Nova View 6 with the rest of the BI team, enabling me to further give you detail on it.

The demo covered quite a few of the major products:
- NovaView Analytics – which existed in previous version though it’s UI has changed
- NovaView Flash Analytics – which is one of the new features in this version
- NovaView Smart Reporting
- NovaView Dashboards
- NovaView Executive Dashboards
- NovaView Universal Data Connector – which is another major new feature in this release..”

Read full review here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/barbaro/