Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 24, 2012
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 24, 2012. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
PK, a software firm based in The Netherlands, has been recognized with the InterSystems Award for Breakthrough Applications. PK, an InterSystems application partner, was recognized for its CU-BOX mobile application for real-time emergency services response measurement. CU-BOX uses the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance database system and InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform to provide critical, objective information about the quality of emergency healthcare delivery.
OpenText Document Server, Alchemy Edition, version 9, the latest version of OpenText's document management solution, is now available. OpenText Alchemy helps SMBs and departments easily and affordably capture, store, access, distribute and archive business and transactional documents. "Businesses of all sizes are being required to be accountable for an ever increasing number of documents being generated and received within their organization," says Matthew Brine, general manager, OpenText Fax and Document Distribution.
Business analytics provider Pentaho has partnered with Human Inference to deliver improved data quality for Pentaho Business Analytics. The combination of the two open source products is intended to provide highly accurate and consistent data to business applications for enterprises on-premise and in the cloud. According to the vendors, the new integration with Human Inference technology will enable Pentaho Business Analytics customers to rapidly create business intelligence applications with higher quality data, allowing for better and quicker decision making.