Justin Russell has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer for Salient Management Company, responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of software development. In this newly created role, Russell will work with Executive Management using an active and practical approach to direct the Core and n-Tier Engineering departments to attain the company's strategic goals.
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David F. Giannetto, a nationally respected thought-leader in the areas of business intelligence, business performance management, information management and analytics, and co-author and creator of The Performance Power Grid© management methodology has joined Salient Management Company as Senior Vice President, Performance Management.
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Gartner recently surveyed business intelligence (BI) leaders to learn their experiences with BI platforms from 33 vendors. This research details customer experiences with these vendors based on a survey used in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms," and compares vendors based on sales, support and product capabilities as well as effective support of business success criteria.
One of the findings was that "data discovery vendors continue to fare well in customer ratings but some slippage has been seen as compared to 2011; small independent vendors dominate the top spots on many ratings while large independents are clustered around the mid-points. Megavendors continue to be judged as below average on many key measures of customer success including ease of use, functionality and overall customer experience."
Salient Management Company, a performance management firm that develops business intelligence technology to help its clients improve efficiency and profitability, was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in its 2012 "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms"
1 in the "niche players" vendor category.
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Respondents to the BI Platforms Magic Quadrant survey assessed their satisfaction with vendors
and their products in four key areas:
- Overall customer experience
- Success using vendor's products compared against perception of vendor's future
- Product ease of use compared against strength of overall functionality
- Market understanding versus overall BI platform success and benefit
Gartner chose these categories because they portray a well-rounded view of customer attitudes on
sales, support and product capabilities alongside how successful the BI initiatives have been using those vendor's products.
"Gartner's four areas of vendor assessment all play to our value proposition in the visual data discovery world," says Guy Amisano, Salient CEO. "We understand complex, high transaction, high volume environments with billions of rows of data, so we have a high user adoption rate leading to breakthrough successes. We listen to the business user community and provide the analytical tools and collaborative capabilities to help them make better decisions. These enhanced capabilities are evident in our 5.0 Collaboration Suite with Storyboards, Knowledge Manager and Dashboard Miner."
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New reporting options for direct-store-delivery will help customers better measure and manage performance.
Salient Management Company, a global supplier of performance optimization software for large, transactional businesses, has appointed Minneapolis, MN-based HighJump Software as an OEM partner for its Salient Dashboard Miner and Dashboard Viewer.
HighJump, a global provider of supply chain management software with over 4,500 customers, is developing a new integrated solution for the direct-store-delivery market, based on Salient's innovative, proven technology. Initial purchases of the new browser-based, platform-independent business intelligence solution, called OmniTech Decision, are already underway as customers recognize the value of complete visibility into the performance of their business, according to
Derek Curtis, Director of Delivery Solutions at HighJump Software.
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The New York State Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) has launched MRT News, a quarterly publication designed to highlight specific MRT initiatives that are currently being implemented, and detail how working collaboratively on these programs will ultimately enhance the lives of Medicaid members throughout New York State.
The Medicaid Redesign Team was formed in 2011 and tasked by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to find ways to reduce costs and increase quality and efficiency in the Medicaid program for the 2011-12 Fiscal Year. As part of its work, the Team sought ideas from the public at large, as well as experts in health care delivery and insurance, the health care workforce, economics, business, consumer rights and other relevant areas.
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Big Data can be a big headache for organizations that have outgrown the practicality and usefulness of single-server analytical tools, especially where self-service reporting is a high priority. That's why successful Big Data users are investing in Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) hardware, a scalable computer architecture that leverages multiple commodity CPUs – potentially hundreds or
thousands – to tackle large scale analysis.
Salient MPP is a super scalable, in-memory, multi-dimensional analytical data platform that defeats traditional limitations of speed, granularity, simplicity and flexibility in use. When combined with Salient's discovery visualization user interface, it provides an overall analytical solution preferred by executives, analysts and basic users to perform simple through complex analytics on massive data sets much faster than previously possible.
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Salient Management Company is rolling out a 4-phase user training protocol designed to create a smooth transition from legacy reporting techniques to modern, drill-down investigative capabilities. The process includes assistance in the re-creation of familiar high priority report perspectives used by the specific client company, as well as recommendations for additional value-added analysis; on-site training tailored to each role; client's choice of about 20 pre-defined courses, some with pre-requisites; and follow-up remote assistance to support adoption.
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Dan Arnold has joined Salient as VP of Business Development, primarily responsible for business strategy development and selling consultative solutions. He reports to Paul Osinski, SVP of Commercial Sales.
Arnold spent most of his career selling professional services enterprise data center systems, which included developing IT and business strategy for his clients and selling business analytics software into large storage environments. Prior to Salient he was with GlassHouse Technologies in Framingham, MA as Program Lead for the IBM Channel. He also held sales and leadership positions at IBM, Novus Consulting Group and DHL Worldwide Express.
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A team of Salient associates led by CEO Guy Amisano will exhibit and present at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 21-25, in Orlando, FL.
The Salient presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, October 24 at 12:50 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. in ITxpo Theater B. In this session, Salient will demonstrate an actual 5+ billion-row solution from multiple data sources that yields sub-3 second response rates for 97% of requests. This visual discovery interface posted a 70% adoption rate among technical and business users – across the entire client organization – which continues to grow year-over-year.
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