M2bis AND STRATATURE ANNOUNCE RESELLER PARTNERSHIP
15 April 2004
London, UK – April 14, 2004 – M2 Business Intelligence Solutions, a UK-based specialist provider of custom business intelligence solutions and training, has joined the Stratature Reseller Partnership Program. The program ensures local support and expertise as Stratature expands the geographic reach of its innovative business intelligence applications BankAnalytics™, for comprehensive retail banking profitability and performance measurement, and +EDM™, for enterprise-wide management and integration of multidimensional applications and technologies. M2bis is pleased that they will be representing Stratature and its products in the United Kingdom.
BankAnalytics is the preferred profitability analytics and performance management solution for retail banks looking to avoid the high cost and lengthy implementation of a custom-built system. BankAnalytics integrates key financial and treasury systems such as the general ledger, funds transfer pricing, activity-based costing and risk management, along with customer level data sources such as a data warehouse, to provide a total picture of customer, product, organisation and officer profitability across the bank. This comprehensive picture of the bank’s profitability and performance is distributed through a standard web browser to hundreds or thousands of users via a library of well organised and customisable reports. Elite analysis and power users desiring a specialised environment for advanced reporting and customisation are fully supported via BankAnalytics’ Microsoft Excel add-in.
Enterprise dimension management has become a key challenge for many organisations
as they increasingly rely on best-of-breed business intelligence applications
for insight into improving financial and operational performance. Linking
and reconciling the many data marts, models, cubes and other storage mechanisms
used to store and analyse data in business intelligence applications is
critical to successfully scaling current initiatives and maximising the
ongoing return from these investments. In addition, the latest accounting
requirements and regulations require a significantly higher level of secure,
documented business processes around changes to financial data and reporting
methods. +EDM addresses the need for version control, secure workflow,
and dimension integration across heterogeneous business intelligence systems
such as Microsoft Analysis Services, Hyperion Essbase, Cognos PowerPlay
and Applix TM1. Additionally, integration is supported across relational
warehouse and marting databases such as Teradata, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.
“Stratature is keen to ensure first-rate representation in key geographic markets,” said Ian Ahern, CEO, Stratature. “By selecting partners with an excellent track record, dedicated business intelligence focus, and solid customer references, we will identify the best partners for the Reseller Partnership Program. Stratature already has a positive relationship with M2BIS in which we use their training materials in the United States. M2bis is one of only two companies that will represent us in the United Kingdom. We are confident in their ability to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction, from the sales cycle, to project implementation, to on-going support.”
“In addition to our strong business intelligence consultancy practice, M2bis is the exclusive worldwide developer of education materials for IntelligentApps, the market-leading Excel add-in for business intelligence,” adds Martin Draper, Director, M2bis. “The
combination of our strong focus on the Financial Services industry, coupled with
our commitment to Microsoft technology and the Microsoft user community, makes
this partnership a perfect match. +EDM and BankAnalytics fit nicely into our
niche and we are excited to offer them to the UK market.”
About M2 Business Intelligence Solutions
M2bis specialises in all forms of Business Intelligence,
OLAP and Data Warhousing consultancy, implementation
and training. M2bis is instrumental in the successful
implementation of a business intelligence solutions. For
more information about M2bis, please visit www.m2bis.com.
About Stratature®
Exclusively focused on analytics, Stratature brings to market innovative
packaged applications +EDM and BankAnalytics, as well as custom-built
business intelligence solutions leveraging best-of-breed partnerships.
+EDM is a comprehensive enterprise dimension management solution enabling
efficient coordination, integration and reconciliation of the dimensions
and hierarchies by which all business data is stored, modeled and analysed.
BankAnalytics, an out-of-the-box profitability and performance measurement
solution developed specifically for retail banks, enables banking managers
at all levels to make more profitable business decisions. Stratature
is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in Washington, DC
and Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information about Stratature,
please visit www.stratature.com.
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