Monthly Archives: February 2012

QlikTech Still in the Magic Quadrant

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Trendset is proud to be a registered OEM partner with QlikTech.  By partnering with a leader in the business intelligence market, Trendset is able to provide world class analytic tools to our clients and the transportation and logistics industries.

Here is a clip from the QlikTech press release:

“QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery—user-driven Business Intelligence, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2012 Business Intelligence Platform Magic Quadrant report*. QlikTech secured its coveted position in the Leaders Quadrant based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner Magic Quadrants provide a snapshot of how vendors perform in a market segment with the goal of helping end users make better informed decisions about companies they may be looking to partner with, or whose services or products they may want to purchase.”

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Trendset Freight Audit and Payment Saves Client $6m

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Would you sit through a 30 minute demo to save $6 million?

lower your expenses with accurate freight bills and better cost management

With freight charges representing up to 11% of a company’s total expenses, shippers are reaching out to vendors to help discover savings and efficiencies. Companies are looking to freight audit and payment vendors to help manage numerous expenses that are adding to their overall freight costs. By outsourcing this process to a skilled FA&P provider, shippers are able to take advantage of sophisticated data collection, detailed reporting and secure technology.

Now more than ever, individuals working within supply chain and logistics functions are being asked to provide ways to minimize cost, facing scrutiny from the financial office.

the Trendset solution

Trendset’s freight audit and payment unit has revolutionized the process of data collection since 1984, processing upwards of 90,000,000 invoices annually, spanning a global freight spend of almost $9,000,000,000 (US Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Mexico Peso, Latin America Peso, Euro, Yen).

the client

As a diversified global manufacturer of electrical components and tools, our client needed a way to gain control over their freight spend through the use of an outsourced freight audit and payment provider.

With over 50 different locations, the need to gain visibility and control over freight spend was starting to become more than just a “want to” it was now a “had to.”

Trendset implemented a flexible and scalable freight audit program that eliminated wasteful and non-value add manual tasks. These highly redundant manual tasks increase the odds of errors and less than accurate data, thus leading to increased costs.  By leveraging Trendset’s flexible and scalable solutions, the client was able to eliminate errors by crossing over to a standardized electronic invoice submission and auditing platform.

financial control by the numbers

2011 numbers:

Total saved: $6 million

Savings: 3% of total freight spend

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The Top 10 Tech Priorities of CIO’s (computerworld.com)

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Annual Gartner survey shows IT budgets are flat globally, declining in North America

From the COMPUTERWORLD website:

Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.’s annual survey of IT executives.

The second most important technology in the survey is mobile, said Gartner, which asked 2,335 CIOs globally about their business and technology priorities for the year ahead. The CIOs, who were surveyed in the fourth quarter of 2011, control $321 billion worth of IT spending in 45 countries.

The survey also found that IT budgets globally will be essentially flat, but with much variation regionally.

In North America, IT budgets will decrease 0.6% compared to 2011, even as they rise by 12.7% in Latin America. The Asia/Pacific region will see a 3.4% increase this year, while Europe is expected to be down by 0.7%. According to Gartner larger organizations are the ones that have been cutting.

Gartner’s full list of CIO tech priorities shows that priorities have shifted some in the past year. Here’s the list, along with information on where the topic was ranked last year.

  1. Analytics and business intelligence. (Last year’s rank: 5)
  2. Mobile technologies. (Last year: 3)
  3. Cloud computing, including SaaS. (Last year: 1)
  4. Collaboration/workflow technologies. (Last year: 8)
  5. Legacy modernization.
  6. IT management. (Last year: 4)
  7. CRM
  8. ERP applications
  9. Security
  10. Virtualization. (Last year: 2)

The survey also looked at business priorities and ranked them as well.

From last year to this year, there was no change in the top three priorities: Increasing enterprise growth was first, followed by attracting and retaining new customers, followed in third place by reducing costs.

“Present economic conditions may tempt CIOs to force IT back into cost-cutting mode, but senior executives expect technology — and this includes IT — to address the tough challenges by amplifying enterprise strategies and operations,” said Gartner analyst Mark McDonald, in a statement.

Last year’s survey by Gartner found that CIOs felt they were losing control of IT spending to CFOs.

 

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Supply Chain and Logistics Outsourcing Set to Grow in 2012

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Jan 9, 2012

From Procurement Leaders Executive Network

In 2012 more companies will explore outsourcing supply chain and logistics requirements, according to a new report.

The forecast from logistics software company Freightgate argues that increasing demand for better collaborative business processes, rate management, and logistics procurement with greater execution capabilities is beyond the knowledge base, response time, and budgets of most in-house IT departments, driving the outsourcing trend.

 

BI Business News

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Hot off the press from CRMdaily.com

CIO Spending Survey Spotlights Business Intelligence, Mobile Tech. Article spotlights that “present economic conditions may tempt CIOs to force IT back into cost-cutting mode” but “one area CIOs may not cut costs is in the area of analytic/business intelligence, mobility, could, and social technologies for 2012.” It appears, ladies and gentlemen, that business intelligence has won the budget!

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