ATA Endorses Vigillo's Athena Big Data Business Intelligence Platform

ARLINGTON, Va., April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations announced it is endorsing Vigillo's Athena big data business intelligence platform as part of its ATA Featured Product program.

"ATA has had a long and fruitful relationship with Vigillo, including its CSA Scorecard in our Featured Product program," said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves, "and as data and analytics become more and more critical to our industry, it is important that fleets be able to track and manage information critical to their businesses. ATA's endorsement identifies Vigillo's Athena as an answer to the data deluge confronting the trucking industry."

"Vigillo is proud of ATA's endorsement that recognizes Athena as a product that will give motor carriers the data visualization tools necessary to make sense of the mountains of data that are generated by and about their operations," said Vigillo CEO Steve Bryan. "Athena brings state-of-the-art technology to large and small carriers at prices that give them the ability to not only manage, but to act on the performance-enhancing opportunities that are hidden in their volumes of data."

Introduced in 2013, Athena is built to be the hub of all of the data that is critical to trucking, including electronic logging devices, telematics, freight, fuel, and maintenance management systems and an infinite amount of other sources to analyze big dollar challenges to a modern trucking company. Trucking professionals gain access to fast analytics, pre-built and custom dashboards, and interconnected data channels to help make better informed business decisions. A report scheduler allows customers to publish wisdom on demand to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

In addition, ATA is renewing its endorsement of Vigillo's CSA Scorecard in its ATA Featured Product program.

For more about Vigillo or ATA's other featured products, visit www.atabusinesssolutions.com or call 1-866-821-3468. To learn more about Vigillo, visit www.vigillo.com.

Vigillo was founded in 2007 by a team of data scientists and software engineers specializing in the Big Data that flows from hundreds of sources within the commercial transportation and logistics industry. Wisdom is delivered through scorecards and interactive dashboards designed for professionals who tackle the complexity of the US supply chain every day. Vigillo's Big Data platform, Athena, is the hub of all commercial transportation and logistics data from public and private sources and it's suite of CSA Scorecards is the number-one CSA reporting system in the industry. For more information on Portland, Oregon-based Vigillo, visit www.vigillo.com.

American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Good stuff. Trucks Bring It!

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SOURCE American Trucking Associations