First Rate picks iWay

Information Builders and its iWay Software division will provide business intelligence (BI) and integration solutions to First Rate, according to Pr-usa.

First Rate, a provider of investment portfolio performance solutions, made the decision after it needed to process a high volume of portfolios in a short period of time and keep customers abreast of market changes via a self-service reporting environment.

Information Builders will help First Rate communicate important information with an end-to-end solution that includes back-end data access, middle-tier analysis, and front-end reporting and presentation.

Bank Austria has selected MicroStrategy to enhance its reporting and analysis capabilities through its BI solutions, reports Tradingmarkets.

Bank Austria plans to build an enterprise data warehouse for its business and its subsidiaries and use the MicroStrategy platform to enable end-users of all levels to report on and analyse large volumes of data without requiring a deep understanding of the data model or SQL knowledge.

MicroStrategy's analytical capabilities, and scalability for thousands of users and terabytes of data, will offer a BI solution for Bank Austria.

LogiXML, a provider of interactive, Web-based BI solutions, announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), reports Marketwatch.

This contract allows agencies and public bodies within the Commonwealth of Virginia to purchase licences, support and services for LogiXML's enterprise-grade BI solutions.

The contract, which includes five optional one-year extensions at the end of the initial five-year period, provides the Commonwealth with the complete line of LogiXML products and support services.