These words are extracts from a recent review of BIME by Steve Dine, a famous Business Intelligence analyst at B-Eye-Network.

The review is really good but Steve Dine has some remarks about missing features and big enterprise adoption.

As he mentioned, we first target the SMBs. One of our key goals was to keep the software as simple as possible while providing as much power as we can. ETL for example is a complex process for the end user. That’s why -for now- we didn’t want to bring the complexity of ETL in the mix. For now, we bypass it offering a unique feature: mixing data from different data sources in memory. Taking data from a relationnal database and from a salesforce.com account and mix them without ETL process? Yes, you can do that in Bime and it only takes you a fraction of the time of the development on an ETL process.

We try to find innovative way to simplify common business analytics tasks and also create some innovative capabilities you won’t find anywhere else (just have a look at the What-if Analysis feature). It also means that sometimes it is hard to go through the check list feature of traditional business intelligence solution.

I bet that large companies will actually jump faster than expected. In our case, some have already done it…to be fair, not as a worldwide corporate choice but as a lightweight, rapid fire business intelligence solution which, more than often, overcomes the old corporate BI solution’s promise.

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Calculated Members & Calculated Measures

Imagine you can extend your datasets with computations and groups on the fly. Do you have turnover and cost measures? Let’s calculate your margin with a calculated measure. Do you want that all the customers above a given profit threshold into one group and create another group containing all the others? Calculated Attribute to the rescue!

Swap visualizations in dashboard

A feature that was on our do-to list for too long. Now you can drag & drop the different visualizations in the dashboard and rearrange them in an iGoogle way.

Top & part-to-whole filters

You can now convert all your results (even in a dashboard) to display the part-to-whole contribution. You can also combine it with a top X filters.

Comments

Bime is very useful for communication. So we just added the possibility to add comments on top of EVERY visualizations.

Color customization

You can now choose the colors when you use visualization with color coding.

Sql Builder

For the RBDMS connector, you can now generate automatically the SQL when you select all the data in one table.

Various corrections

Grand Totals, In Bime desktop zoom chart caused an uncaught exceptions, search in attributes of the pivot table, autobuild on Salesforce.com connections, multi chart was buggy when too much categories.

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Goal: generate high quality leads, increasing conversions of leads, achieve subscription revenues and volumes

Your everyday responsibilities:

*Online ad development:

Create and place ads and inserts on related sites and publications

Test, monitor and adapt keyword strategy and landing pages

Analyze conversion path / user journey and recommend next steps

Profile leads generated/conversions and recommend next steps

Time and budget management to ensure deadlines are achieved and investment is allocated in the correct places to demonstrate and maximize ROI

*Managing and developing web content:

Produce training and support materials for existing users

Explore all possible opportunities to raise customer/market awareness

Produce additional ad hoc marketing collateral

*Email Marketing:

Planning, implementing, tracking and optimising B2B marketing campaigns

Create targeted list selections via database manipulation

Drive usage for trialists and subscribers

*Press releases

*Monitor and report on competitor activity and significant market trends

*Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin:

Develop constructive relationships with key contacts within BI, SaaS, Data visualization and Cloud Computing B2B fields (Forums, blogs) and use these to benefit the business commercially (identify partnership, possible evangelists)

Knowledge & Skills Required:

- Experience work across a variety of media including: SEO, PPC (Adwords) and Web Analytics (Google Analytics)

- Up to date on all the latest technologies

- Demonstrate innovation by constantly seeking to improve existing methods by introducing more effective marketing techniques and procedures.

- Analytical thinking, creative thinking, strategic thinking

- Good people skills, ability to build relationships, good communicator and influencing skills

- Self-starter who can work independently, decision-making, taking initiative

- Flexible, ability to multitask

- Knowledge in the Business Intelligence, SaaS, Cloud Computing or RIA would (of course) be appreciated

Location: Montpellier, south of France

You can contact me for more details (rachel (at) wearecloud.com).

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Although it focuses on scientific activities, I believe that this article presents an interesting “lifeart”, which can be re-used in all days various situations. When you are faced to a new intellectual or technical challenge, for which you have no idea to solve it, the best solution would be: immerge in the unknown with pragmatism & simplicity.

1st: propose naive approaches which will enrich successively your knowledge of the problem (through focusing specific aspects of the problem where you need to invest some effort).

2nd: solve your initial problem according to your new knowledge on it.

In some words: Naive approach allows you to solve very difficult problems.

I recommend you to read this pleasant short article (only one page)! You can download it here. Hope it will interest you!

[1] Martin A. Schwartz – The importance of stupidity in scientific research – Journal of Cell Science 121, 1771 (2008)

Mathias

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Thanks to Next Production for the killer realisation.

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We went to Paris to get our award. We can display an “innovative label” in each WAC communication…wouhhhhh.

It was last thursday (25th June 2009).

Let’s have a look at the photo beyond: we were only few to represent the WAC team (on the left side, blond and brown girls: Stephanie & I). Congretulations to Ludovic, Yannick, Mathias, Nicolas and FLorent!

By the way, will you find our minister (Valérie Pecresse)? She wears a pink jacket…

Time for work now!

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