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Visual Mining announced the latest release to its on-demand offering, Sales Executive.

Product News published in DM Direct Special Report
April 3, 2007 Issue

Accelerating BPM Through On-Demand Analytics
as seen on SoftwareBusinessOnline.com

There is a better way – Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards distributed using a Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS) platform.

There are a number of solutions beginning to emerge in the business intelligence (BI) market that combine state-of-the-art BPM technology with Software-as-a-Service to push relevant, up-to-date metrics throughout an organization with little or no upfront costs or IT snags. These applications are fast, inexpensive, easy to access and can serve organizations of any size. They are an ideal solution to long-suffering metrics developers and consumers everywhere: No problems with software versions, no problems with dynamic data, and no problems with distribution.

SaaS infrastructure, as a service
Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 7:14 am

Anyone still laboring under the misconception that SaaS is just a different delivery model for conventional software should spend a few minutes talking to Treb Ryan, CEO of SaaS infrastructure hosting provider OpSource. More than 200 ISV attendees at last week's SaaS Summit, organized by OpSource, got a chance to hear the message loud and clear — although inevitably Ryan was speaking to the already converted.

OpSource Unveils New Round of SaaS Enablement Capabilities
Posted on THINK IT Services

While Salesforce.com and its Founder/CEO/Chairman, Mark Benioff, get most of the attention and credit for setting the standard for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) movement, OpSource and its Founder/CEO, Treb Ryan, have done more than their share to evangelize the business benefits of SaaS and educate the software industry about the steps to success in this market.

Third-Parties Augment Mid-Market CRM with Analytics
as seen on Enterprise Systems

Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.

Are You Really a SaaS Vendor?
as seen on SandHill.com

Here’s why the most successful SaaS vendors think of themselves as business-to-business Web companies – not software companies.

Visual Mining Unveils Software as a Service (SaaS) Performance Dashboard
as seen in DMReview.com

Software as a Service: You're Not in This Alone
as seen in Redmond Channel Partner Online

As SaaS picks up steam, more resources are coming online to help with the transition to on-demand delivery.

Visual Mining is a "yellow" company that's used OpSource to help prepare for SaaS. McDonald says the biggest obstacle his company faced in its conversion was process changes, the discipline required before moving new software onto a production machine. "If you put something on a production server that has a bug in it, your customers are all done. You have to be very aware of every customer, and how it can affect them," he says.

DMReview New Product News: New Sales Executive on-demand software

Sales Force Automation 2.0
as seen in E-Commerce Times CRM Systems

Visual Mining, a provider of on-demand graphical reporting, visual analytics and performance dashboard applications, provides another example of a seemingly small change delivering big advances in productivity. "Analytics is part of most SFA platforms, but Visual Mining has developed a dashboard that allows managers and users to build reports and generally monitor sales activities without having to rely on a tech person to build a report every time one is needed," says Wettemann.

Marketing Dashboards: The Visual Display of Marketing Data - as seen on ChiefMarketer.com

Sales Executive Dashboard Screenshots - configurable KPIs on user created dashboards
as seen on dashboardspy.com

Mining data: Helping the business deliver what customers really crave
By Fawn Fitter, as seen on Microsoft Midsize Business Center

Visual Mining eyes BI tool for Salesforce.com's AppExchange as new growth engine
report by The 451 Group (client status required)

IBM will use NetCharts Pro from Visual Mining Inc. to provide interactive data visualization capabilities in DB2 Alphablox.
reported by DB2 Magazine in News Bytes

Visual Mining Extends Relationship with Hyperion
covered by DBTA.com in 5-Minute Briefing

Visual Mining NetCharts Facilitates Data Distribution
Product Review published in DM Review Magazine
July 2005 Issue - By Arthur D. Foret

Visual Mining Releases Reporting Suite v4.6
covered in MC|Press Online

Why Discipline Will Be Your Biggest Management Challenge
IT Business Edge interview with Michael MacDonald, Chairman and CEO

Michael MacDonald, Chairman and CEO, profiled on
The Wall Street Reporter

MICHAEL MACDONALD - BOARD VISUAL MINING INC
CEO Interview exerpt
The Wall Street Transcript

Rockville's Visual Mining strikes 50 percent sales jump
Washington Business Journal, page 10

BIRT To Take Flight in Early 2005
internetnews.com

Eclipse-Based Reporting Tool Targets Java
eclipse developer's journal

Visual Mining Announces Third Release of Its Eclipse-Based BI Reporting Tool
DMReview.com

Visual Mining Announces Third Release of Its Eclipse-Based Business Intelligence Reporting Tool; welcomes BIRT initiative
Forbes.com

Visualize This: Plenty of Complicated Data Made Easy to See - by Brian Deagon
Investors Business Daily, Internet & Technology

CIBC signs $90 million document management deal
IT Business Canada

CEO Interview with Michael MacDonald, CEO and Founder
TheWallStreetReporter.com

2003 Readers' Choice Awards
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine

"Picture This" (link to reprint)
Computer Business Review

Strategic data management meets data visualization
Computerworld Canada

Dynamic Data Display: Web technology gives a 'graphic' depiction of profits, productivity - by Sharon Machlis, Computerworld