CorVu Corporation and Cooperacao & Associados Partner.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998-- Consulting Firm Represents CorVu's Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard Balanced Scorecard A performance metric used in strategic management to identify and improve various internal functions and their resulting external outcomes. The balanced scorecard attempts to measure and provide feedback to organizations in order to assist in implementing Solutions in Brazil CorVu Corporation, the leading provider of Business Intelligence, Performance Management, and Balanced Scorecard solutions, and Cooperacao & Associados, a leading provider of consulting services and systems solutions for Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. and Logistics, announced today they have entered a partnership to provide business performance management, balanced scorecard and business intelligence solutions to the Brazilian market. Under the agreement, Cooperacao & Associados will represent the CorVu Integrated Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions along with Cooperacao & Associados' solutions. This will provide Cooperacao & Associados' clients using applications such as QAD QAD Quality Assurance Division QAD Quality Assurance Department QAD Quick And Dirty QAD Quality Audit Division QAD Quick Attach/Detach QAD Question Answer Detail (language arts education) QAD Quality Application Development , SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. , Datasul, Progress Software, and others with immediate access to business performance information. "With CorVu, customers can drill through their data to view and analyze key business performance indicators, including both financial and operational measures. It allows them to easily access analytical information previously very difficult to obtain," said Jose Chaim Rabe, president of Cooperacao & Associados. "CorVu gives users a quick and powerful method to measure and manage business performance indicators. Combining OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. functionality, production reporting, ad hoc query A non-standard inquiry. An ad hoc query is created to obtain information as the need arises. Contrast with a query that is predefined and routinely performed. See query and ad hoc. , EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. , forecasting, and Balanced Scorecard solutions into a single product for the Brazilian market will clearly assist companies in gaining a competitive advantage in this strained economy. With information at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , managers using CorVu now have a better understanding of how their organizations are performing enterprise-wide," said Jim O'Reilly, vice president of sales, the Americas. Cooperacao & Associados has signed up as a value-added reseller for all of the CorVu software products. In addition, Cooperacao will participate in the CorVu Certified Service Provider (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) Program. This program permits partners such as Cooperacao to provide training and consulting services to customers of the CorVu software solutions. About CorVu CorVu Corporation is a leading international provider of business performance management and business intelligence solutions. CorVu has U.S. offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco; and Washington D.C.; Australian offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; and European offices in London and Rotterdam. With more than 2000 customers, including companies such as BHP, Datacard, Mincom, Prudential, Johnson & Johnson, Unisys, and BF Goodrich, CorVu's Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard solutions are gaining broad market acceptance. Additional information on CorVu products and services can be found on CorVu's Web site at http://www.corvu.com or call (800) 610-0769. About Cooperacao & Associados Founded in 1989, Cooperacao provides strategic consulting services and software development for the Brazilian marketplace. The main focus of the company is assisting with the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning, Logistics, and Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. solutions. Cooperacao maintains a unique approach in this market by establishing "partnerships" with their customers to ensure the success of client's ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , Sales Force Automation and Logistics implementations. Cooperacao's main office is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil with remote offices in Bauru, Curitiba, and Alphaville. Cooperacao has a growing list of over 290 customers in Brazil such as GE Dako Appliance, DANONE, Progress Software, Solutia, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Sara Lee, Bombril Cirio, and Groupe Andre. Additional information on Cooperacao's services and software products can be found on Cooperacao's Web site at http://www.Cooperacao.com or call 55-11-214-1347. NOTE TO EDITORS: CorVu is a trademark of CorVu Corporation. All other company and product names referenced herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. Cooperacao & Associados is a trademark of Cooperacao & Associados. |
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