A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO

There is a concept in evolution known as “punctuated equilibrium”—very brief periods in which extraordinary biological diversity is introduced against a backdrop of the most gradual of evolutionary progress over vast time periods.  The world of Business Performance Management is doubtless in a period of such punctuated equilibrium.

Market forces have converged on a new order centered upon the speed, efficiency and effectiveness which is the Performance Dashboard.  Imagine the mammal’s song of celebration when it became clear how evolution was unfolding!  We at Corda hear that song.  Whatever, wherever, whenever your data, we deliver in days what the BI dinosaurs would deliver in years.  And what we are delivering in days is the start of the successive refinement upon which Business Performance Management is premised—the last great enterprise software market representing decades of gradual evolution from the back office, to front office, to value chain integration, to the new order exploding around us!

We’re looking forward to 2008, which will become the Year of Business Performance Management!

PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Corda’s development team is hard at work on CenterView™ 3.0 and PopChart®, OptiMap™ and Highwire™ versions 7.2.  These products entered Beta recently and our customer feedback has been very positive.  Please watch our website for the latest release announcements.

WEBINAR

Businesses thrive or fail based on their ability to identify, track and act upon Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Corda was pleased this month to host a webinar titled Smart Decisions: The Role of Key Performance Indicators featuring David Hatch, Research Director of Aberdeen Group's Business Intelligence Practice.  His presentation was based on research from the Aberdeen Group and gave a roadmap for business management and decision makers who desire to achieve their goals through Best-In-Class use of KPIs.

If you missed out on the live webinar and Q&A session you can catch up with our recorded version.  It can be found on the events page on the Corda website at:

http://www.corda.com/performance-dashboard-events.php

You can also see the Aberdeen Group’s White Paper titled Smart Decisions: The Role of Key Performance Indicators by visiting the Resources section of our web site at:

http://www.corda.com/visual-business-intelligence-white-papers.php

CASE STUDY

When the government of Peru needed help displaying data from Juntos, a program that helps poor families provide education and basic care for their children, they turned to EFT, an information technology firm in Lima.  EFT chose PopChart and OptiMap from Corda Technologies, Inc.

Today, thanks to tools from Corda Technologies, officials who administer the Juntos program can quickly and easily find the information they need. The program administrators can now more effectively accomplish one of the key goals of the Juntos program: to help children receive better healthcare, nutrition, and education from the earliest age possible.

See the full details about the Juntos program and other Corda customer success stories at:

http://www.corda.com/visual-business-intelligence-case-studies.php

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Corda’s Professional Services group is available to help you with all your dashboard needs.  Our Dashboard Technologists can help with dashboard design, KPI design, data connections, training, or any other service related to displaying your data.  We can assist your team or do the entire job for you.

Corda Training Enhanced—Hit the ground running with the most powerful training experience available.  Corda Training Enhanced offers web-based classroom sessions, selected readings from industry experts, a developer portal for exchange of information and ideas, and a Certification exam to become a Certified Corda CenterView Professional.  This can be combined with an optional on-site visit to get your projects rolling quickly.

CenterView Data Connectors—Do you need access to data from many sources?  Do you have specific needs that are unique to your organization?  CenterView can connect your data to virtually any data source.  However, when you encounter that rare circumstance of needing a custom connector, Corda’s Professional Services team can help! We have connectors for SalesForce.com, MS Project, and SAP BW just for a few examples.  Let our Dashboard Technologists help you get to the data you need.

Get a Dashboard Technologist helping you today by calling Corda sales at: (800) 968-3240.

TECH TIP

To increase performance make sure that server script is not at the dashboard level or inside the Datafunnels™, unless necessary.  If it is at the dashboard level instead of inside a page or KPI it runs every time any page is requested.  If it is inside a page or KPI then it will only be run when those items are requested.  If it is inside a Datafunnel it causes the Datafunnel to never be cached and every time the data is requested it will rerun the server script and then retrieve the data again.