Broadbase Adds Analytic Apps.

Broadbase Information Systems Inc is offering a 3.0 version of its EPM data analysis suite with new applications for e-business, field service and help desk. It has also won a ringing endorsement from e-business ISV Broadvision Inc. The two companies are integrating their respective programs which will enable Broadvision users to load relationship management data from the One-to-One applications into a Broadbase data mart and analyze it using EPM/E-business.

Broadbase's new applications - plus the existing sales, marketing and customer service modules - apply a different package of analysis metrics to data loaded into EPM/Foundation, the data mart which Broadbase introduced back in 1997. EPM/E-business The company claims that it delivers analysis into the hands of end- users rather than the IT department. Broadbase has said that what Siebel Systems and Broadvision do for OLTP, it does for analysis.

As well as new applications it has enhanced the existing suite and upgraded EPM/Foundation with new interfaces to additional CRM and ERP applications; support for Microsoft's entire data warehouse framework; and graphical management. It runs on relational databases. Application modules start at $150,000 each, including EPM/Foundation.