AlphaBlox Chairman Highlights Requirements for Maximizing Profitability Through Next Generation Analytic Infrastructure.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001 Global Customers Pfizer, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , Xerox, and Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank Showcase Business Successes Drawn From Analytical Platform at Hyperion Solutions Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a business performance management software company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Many of its products are targeted at the Business Intelligence and Business performance management market. 2001 Show Large companies must build an analytical infrastructure across the entire enterprise to maximize profitability, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Michael Skok, founder and chairman of AlphaBlox Corporation, maker of the only Web-based platform for building analytical applications. Skok delivered a keynote on the topic of enhancing profitability through embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. analytics at the Hyperion Solutions 2001 conference, today. In addition, AlphaBlox customers Pfizer, Xerox, SBC and Deutsche Bank showcased their innovative uses of AlphaBlox's analytical platform to help them drive profits from critical business concentrations, including sales, accounting, and risk management reporting. "Today's leading corporate concern is profitability, which is perpetuated by an overall inability of large companies to predict and respond to critical business surprises that span their entire enterprises," said Skok. "In order for an organization to maximize profitability, it must embed an analytical function at every intersection of its key business processes to provide a live global view that decision makers can quickly collaborate and act on." Skok cautioned that large companies require an analytical infrastructure beyond the integration of static analytical and reporting tools in order to pinpoint and act on their most cost-effective opportunities. "If companies are to be profitable in the future, they must shift their business analysis from a rear view planning approach based primarily on historical metrics to a front view, which traditional analytics do not allow," he said. Skok highlighted Pfizer's unique ability to ensure timely access to key information across multiple departments as a company with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical sales forces. AlphaBlox has helped Pfizer's managers to leverage relevant sales forecast Sales forecast A key input to a firm's financial planning process. External sales forecasts are based on historical experience, statistical analysis, and consideration of various macroeconomic factors. information and market research to inform critical business decisions and increase overall operational productivity. There are several technical requirements inherent in an analytical infrastructure, explained Skok. "A company's analytical infrastructure must integrate with its J2EE-compliant application servers and leverage client- and server-based components for optimal performance, scalability, reliability and security. This integration will enable an organization to read and write to both multi-dimensional and relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. in order to perform 'what-if' analysis and forecasting in line with maximizing its overall profit making opportunities." "Real success will come to those organizations that take the guess work out of profitability and embed it as a gene throughout their entire value chain, proactively making it a part of every business decision they make," said Skok. About AlphaBlox AlphaBlox Corporation helps organizations consistently reveal their smartest opportunities to drive and manage their business more profitably. AlphaBlox provides the analytical infrastructure to deliver Web-based applications See Web application. -- inside and outside the firewall -- focused on driving profitability throughout the entire business. AlphaBlox's openness and extensibility also gives businesses the ability to embed analytics into business processes, packaged applications, corporate portals An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business services. AlphaBlox serves Global 2000 organizations in financial, telecommunications and manufacturing. Its customers include Deutsche Bank Securities, AT&T, SBC, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett Packard, Toyota Motor Company, FedEx, Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. , and
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