Finalists

Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution

Awards the software solution that best facilitates the analyzing of quantitative business data in order to enable business managers to make strategic decisions.

 
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CODiE Winner

Adaptive Planning 5.0, Adaptive Planning

Adaptive Planning is an on-demand planning and reporting solution that enables finance organizations to streamline operations and drive greater strategic business value.

The solution is ideal for the current economy since it allows companies to quickly create and evaluate the what-if scenarios and re-forecasts necessary to successfully manage through uncertainty -- and to do so at a fraction of the cost of traditional enterprise software alternatives.

We work with thousands of companies and organizations of all sizes, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations, including leaders such as AAA, AIM Healthcare, American Red Cross, Crabtree and Evelyn, Mercury Insurance, MSNBC, NetSuite, Pep Boys, Philips, RedHat, Rheem, Rotary International, Siemens, and many more.

Adaptive Planning features modules for budgeting and forecasting, reporting and analysis, model creation and administration, and team collaboration. It’s tightly integrated with an online community for sharing best practices in financial management, accessing support, and connecting with other users.

An alternative to both manual, Excel-based processes and complex and costly enterprise software, Adaptive Planning is affordable (starting at just $600 per year); does not require any new hardware or software; and deploys quickly -- averaging only 2 weeks of consulting time.

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ProSystem fx ActiveData, CCH, a Wolters Kluwer Business

CCH empowers auditing professionals with ProSystem fx ActiveData, a data extraction and analysis tool that manipulates and analyzes client and financial data within Microsoft Excel® to simplify everything from sampling to sophisticated fraud detection.

ProSystem fx ActiveData lets users automate the process they use to compile all data received from clients, and streamlines the process of sorting through the data to find areas prone to risk. With ProSystem fx ActiveData, users can analyze client data within Microsoft Excel in minutes using easy, automated functions; adopt a consistent methodology for identifying high-risk data based on impact and likelihood for failure; and understand how to efficiently detect errors within client data and mitigate the risk of errors.

Auditing professional need tools that work the way they do, and ProSystem fx ActiveData simplifies account and financial data analysis with more than 70 time-saving functions that let users manipulate data, perform complex calculations and manage Microsoft Excel workbooks and files. This high-speed and high-performance data analysis and manipulation tool can support up to a million rows of data, and reports are published right into Microsoft Excel.

The end result is a better understanding of client data and increased opportunity for analysis.

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illumin8, Elsevier

illumin8 is a semantic research tool that helps corporate R&D professionals drive more efficient, effective innovation by helping to answer complex questions faster and more accurately. It is unique in the technical approach it implements, as well as the massive content sources that serve as its search database.

illumin8 quickly extracts summarized answers that are semantically related to the query's context, uniquely going far beyond that of Google-like keyword consumer search engines because it is designed to search based on relevance, context and analysis – but still in seconds.

illumin8 searches 8 billion+ Web pages plus all of Elsevier's proprietary full-text content, scientific abstracts and worldwide patent information - allowing companies to tap into the principles of Open Innovation by providing solutions across multiple industries and technologies, while saving days and weeks of research time. illumin8 is intelligent enough to recognize technology terms such as “voice over IP” or “biofuel,” or product categories/concepts that have vaguer contours, like “flex fuel vehicles” or “natural toothpaste.”

illumin8's results are presented as a detailed summary of benefits/applications, innovators, products, experts, users, organizations associated with and sellers of technologies. They can be easily exported into an Excel document, allowing for real-time sharing throughout multiple departments.

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Tableau 4.0, Tableau Software, Inc.

Tableau 4.0 is a visual data analysis application that makes data discovery quick and easy for users of any technical skill level. Tableau 4.0 includes one-click analytical map creation, usability enhancements and capabilities to embed and share live Tableau views with other applications such as Web applications and documents.

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Truviso, Truviso

Truviso provides the solution to continuously analyze massive volumes of non-stop data, enabling critical visibility, actionable insights and more intelligent decision making while there is still an opportunity to affect the outcome. Based on an open source foundation Truviso applies SQL analysis to streaming data.

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