syskoplan Partners With Panorama for Joint Go-to-Market BI Strategy in Germany

MUNICH, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- syskoplan AG, Gold certified Microsoft Partner in several categories, announced today it is the preferred German market partner of Panorama Software and is one of the first to launch Necto, Panorama's latest socially-enabled business intelligence (BI) solution, in the European region.

Panorama Software is a provider of complete and integrated Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions for the Microsoft platform. It offers powerful data exploration and navigation capabilities for advanced users, extends the reach of BI to more users by delivering innovative new user experiences, and makes BI more productive through new collaboration capabilities. Companies utilizing Panorama can create BI solutions that fit all of their needs, beyond just technical requirements.

Panorama Necto is the company's latest innovation that offers a new way to connect data, insights and people in the organization. It enables business knowledge sharing among different users and across corporate units, all based upon a business-oriented social platform. 

Panorama Necto tracks individual user's interests, and intelligently suggests other networked users who are pursuing similar business goals. It also indicates the users that are most relevant to the tasks at hand.  As discussion between these two (or more) previously unconnected users grows, the system records and organizes their work to allow it to be retrieved in the future. The meta-data created in this process is tied to the Business Intelligence data that triggered the building of such insight, and aids workers across all levels in their decision making and planning. 

Panorama Necto enables mentoring throughout the organization, with users having the ability to "subscribe" to others in order to follow their viewpoints and strategies. Executive management that desires visibility into new business units can identify and follow the top performers to gain on-the-ground insights.

syskoplan adds socially-powered Necto to its one-stop powerful Microsoft BI solution.

Specialized in the development and implementation of Microsoft BI solutions, syskoplan's Microsoft Unit supports its customers to take advantage of Microsoft's cutting-edge technology with the powerful analytical capabilities and new social media components of Necto.

To satisfy the needs of power users, syskoplan can offer Panorama as a robust analytical tool that is specifically designed for the Microsoft Platform. Native support of PowerPivot is also available within the in-memory platform of Microsoft, making it completely enterprise ready (adding data-level security, a web-based interface and other capabilities).

Seamless integration with Office and SharePoint provides the ability to spread BI to the masses. With Necto, syskoplan can now, for the first time, empower SharePoint BI content with social intelligence.

"The new partnership with Panorama strengthens our wide range of Microsoft BI Solutions, enables us to provide more value to end users, and deliver the best-of-breed front-end solution for the Microsoft Platform," said Josef Stegschuster, Partner of syskoplan AG.

About syskoplan

"Passion for IT": This has been the driving force behind syskoplan for the past 25 years. The companies in the syskoplan Group develop and implement innovative IT solutions based on adaptable and agile IT platforms extended with customer-specific components. The benefits for the customers of the syskoplan Group are numerous: They receive high-performance, flexible and efficient IT. These solutions, tailored specifically to the needs of the customer, enable them to stand out in the market, thereby creating sustainable competitive advantages.

As a network of specialized companies, the syskoplan Group combines the performance of a large corporation with the agility and flexibility of small units. Common values are at the core of all business behavior in the syskoplan Group. These values are the foundation of the successful work we do for our customers. Approximately 409 employees generated sales revenue of 60.2 million Euros in fiscal year 2010. At the center of the Group is syskoplan AG, founded in 1983 and listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange since November 2000.

The integration of the syskoplan Group into the international network of their main shareholder, Reply S.p.A. ensures access to the know-how of approximately 3,000 IT experts. Reply focuses on developing and implementing solutions based on new communication channels and digital media.

About Panorama Software:

Panorama Software empowers individuals and global organizations with the ability to rapidly analyze data, identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through a complete SaaS and on-premise BI solution.

Panorama Necto™ is the industry's first socially-enabled Business Intelligence solution that offers a new way to connect data, insights, and people in the organization. The patent-pending solution represents a new generation of BI that enables enterprises to leverage the power of Social Intelligence to gain insights more quickly, more efficiently, and with greater relevancy.

Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996; the technology was rebranded as SQL Server™ Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server™ platform.

Panorama supports over 1,600 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and life sciences. Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. Visit www.panorama.com to learn more about Panorama's Business Intelligence Solutions.

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