April 2008
The Monarch Report informs users of our Monarch-powered solutions of the latest product news, tips, user stories, upcoming events and more. This newsletter is sent to our online subscribers and anyone who has purchased or expressed interest in Datawatch products.
Last Call: Datawatch 2008 User Conference Just Weeks Away!
The Datawatch 2008 User Conference is just weeks away, but you can still register today and join us in Phoenix at the Arizona Grand Resort, May 4-7! Please visit our 2008 User Conference website for details. Questions? Please call the Datawatch User Conference team at (800)445-3311 (international: +1-978-441-2200) for answers and to register today!
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills, enhance your productivity, and maximize your organization's success with Monarch, Monarch Data Pump and our entire family of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions!
Mindful that nearly every Monarch user exports mined data to Excel, we are pleased to welcome Excel consultant and author Curtis Frye as our guest keynote, speaking on the effective use of Excel as a BI presentation tool. Each attendee will receive a copy of Curt's Excel Presentation Kit on CD to take back to the office for immediate new results with Excel!
You will enjoy informative presentations led by experienced end users and Datawatch personnel alike, plus special guest presentations by Microsoft senior product managers on SharePoint and Office 2007, and how Monarch technologies compliment these fast-growing Microsoft solutions.
Get answers to your most difficult Monarch challenges with Datawatch product experts in our Solutions Lab. The dollar value of this personalized consulting service alone makes attending the User Conference a true value!
You will also enjoy an unforgettable evening of Southwest excitement and hospitality at the Corona Ranch, featuring an action-packed Charreada (Mexican rodeo) exhibition and show, a delicious cowboy cuisine buffet, and much more!
Don't delay, visit the Datawatch User Conference website and register now!
SA Recycling Recycles its ERP Reports into Customized, Web-Enabled BI with Monarch, and now Datawatch|ES
SA Recycling is the largest scrap metal recycler in Southern California, purchasing and recycling all types of scrap metal, including car bodies, appliances, oil filters, batteries, and construction and demolition materials, recovering the metals for future manufacturing use. The company has grown to 30 locations throughout California, Arizona, Nevada and Mexico.
SA Recycling has utilized Monarch to effectively manage and consolidate its operations for years with much success. Today, the company has expanded the power of Monarch report mining throughout the company by recently selecting Datawatch|ES, the web-enabled report management and programming-free enterprise business intelligence solution by Datawatch.
New Webinar: Monarch Report Mining Solutions for ERP: Providing BI "Hidden in Plain Sight"
Vitally important enterprise ERP and other data is typically "hidden in plain sight" in the form of existing ERP reports. These reports, which typically number in the thousands, are usually ignored by traditional business intelligence solutions.
Our family of Monarch-powered solutions uniquely leverages this information source for enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) made easy for all users, while dramatically reducing the workload of the IT department.
Our new 7 1/2 minute presentation, suitable for IT and business users alike, will inform you how organizations running ERP and other applications can easily integrate ERP data with Excel; combine ERP and non-ERP data sources; provide the right information to the right person at the right time, and much more, with no programming, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional BI solutions.
View our new recorded web presentation now:
Monarch Powered Solutions for ERP: Business Intelligence "Hidden in Plain Sight"
PLUS: Check out our new Monarch Data Pump for SharePoint web presentation.
This presentation will inform you how Monarch Data Pump can automatically transform all your existing reports and other business documents from enterprise information systems, including ERP, healthcare or financial systems and more, into customized Excel files, for easy information delivery. That includes copying customized Excel files to SharePoint repositories, for easy online access, sharing and control. Even better, Monarch Data Pump enables the creation of enterprise scorecards and dashboards within Microsoft SharePoint, containing web-enabled Excel data and KPIs, with no new programming, no data warehouse building – and all at a cost substantially less than traditional BI solutions.
View our new recorded web presentation now:
Monarch Data Pump: Information Made Easy for SharePoint.
Monarch Report Mining in Healthcare IT News: Pervasive Business Intelligence for Healthcare
Many IT professionals, including healthcare executives, mistakenly believe the only way to get enterprise BI into the hands of those who need it is to implement sophisticated BI tools, typically with complicated interfaces and little training on how to effectively use the tools. Furthermore, IT still bears the burden of creating and maintaining the data management systems necessary to support BI. In reality, pervasive BI may be more of a headache than it’s worth...
It is time to consider a more pragmatic approach to achieving the aim of pervasive BI and getting the right information to the right people at the right time. By innovatively bridging BI and enterprise content management, a slightly different approach called Report Mining can fully utilize the existing reports already produced by an organization’s enterprise information systems.
Read this new article from Healthcare IT News here.
New Datawatch|BDS V7.1 Offers Expanded Security Features to Document Archive
Datawatch|BDS (Business Document Server) is the standard for high-volume enterprise document capture, imaging, archiving and retrieval, capable of managing billions of documents from the point of initiation through delivery. Datawatch recently announced Datawatch|BDS V7.1, the latest version of its enterprise document archive system, now allows organizations the ability to quickly and easily conform to Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS).
The PCI DSS is a comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data. In a nutshell, PCI DSS established standards for Encryption of Data at Rest (while stored in the document repository); Encryption of Data in Transit (to ensure documents containing sensitive information cannot be intercepted during transmission over networks); and Protection of Cardholder Account Number (Datawatch|BDS V7.1 offers a configurable mask to ensure no Primary Account Number (PAN) appears in any document).
Harvey Gross, vice president, enterprise product management and development for Datawatch recently commented, "The powerful new functionality in Datawatch|BDS V7.1 demonstrates our commitment to our customers and provides the secure platform that industry regulations require - all in a highly flexible and easy-to-use centralized document management solution."
Read the Datawatch|BDS V7.1 Press Release.
View our recorded Datawatch|BDS overview demo, including a look at Monarch|RMS (Report Mining Server), an optional add-in solution transforming text and PDF-based reports archived in Datawatch|BDS into actionable web-enabled data.