1Spatial Holdings Regulatory News (SPA)

25 Jan 2010 07:00



25 JANUARY 2010

INCA, AN AVISEN PLC COMPANY

("Inca" or the "Company")

INCA CONTINUES TO INVEST IN THE MIDSIZE MARKET

providing IBM Cognos® Express Solution to midsize businesses

Inca announces first two sales of IBM Cognos® Express to Kettle Foods and Mayflex

Kettle Foods will implement software to enhance decision making and users will benefit from faster access to data

Mayflex plans to use the software to provide a stable environment for budgeting 

Inca, an Avisen Plc company and IBM Business Partner, has made its first two sales of IBM Cognos® Express to Kettle Foods, supplier of KETTLE® Chips - the UK's leading premium crisp brand - and Mayflex - a leading distributor of cabling infrastructure, networking and physical security products.

IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated Business Intelligence (BI) and Planning solution, purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at an affordable price.

Kettle Foods will use the software to identify strategic opportunities and provide an integrated planning and reporting tool to replace complex, and difficult to maintain, spreadsheets.

Shaun Richardson, IT Manager at Kettle Foods, commented: "We spent a year looking at the relative merits of a variety of business intelligence software solutions. We selected IBM Cognos Express because it combines the planning and modeling strengths of IBM Cognos TM1 and the reporting strengths of IBM Cognos 8 BI in a value for money offering, providing a complete planning, reporting and scenario modeling toolset.

"The main benefit we hope to gain from using IBM Cognos® Express is to enhance our decision making by enabling users to have access to their data much faster than they currently do, using our existing reporting methods."

IBM Cognos® Express has also recently been chosen by Mayflex Holdings Ltd to provide a stable environment within which to budget business activities, replacing their current large and complex spreadsheet system. The facility to use the web for input and viewing was also a key decision factor in the purchase process - due to the requirement of UK and international users connecting remotely. 

Lyn Dolphin, Finance Manager at Mayflex, commented: " The service and help we have received in introducing IBM Cognos® Express into the business from Inca has been excellent. Our timescales are very short and Inca have done everything they can to assist us in achieving our target."

Ian Stone, Managing Director of Inca, said: "We are delighted to have made the initial sales of IBM  Cognos® Express to Kettle Foods and Mayflex. With our presence in the midsize market, we are confident that we will continue to bring new IBM Cognos Express® customers on board as businesses realise the value and importance of having Business Intelligence software in place.

"Midsize organisations are focused on driving cost and improving profit and efficiencies and the IBM Cognos Express® solution provides them with the necessary tools to achieve their goals."

Ged Simmons, Country Manager, Business Intelligence and Performance Management UK and Ireland, IBM, added, "For organisations that are beginning to embark or expand on a BI and Planning strategy, IBM Cognos® Express includes everything needed to get started right away. It offers powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities for both novices and advanced users to encourage broad adoption throughout a company."

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Notes to Editors

IBM

Inca, an Avisen Plc Company, received the IBM Midmarket Business Partner Award at the IBM Midmarket Community Conference in November 2009. 

The IBM UK Midmarket Business Partner award is presented to IBM UK partners that have delivered innovative solutions, impressive revenue growth and effective teaming with IBM and other partners in the midmarket. The UK midmarket is defined as companies with less than 1000 employees. This award has been instigated by IBM as part of its focus on the midmarket to recognise Business Partners that are investing and succeeding in this crucial marketplace.  For more information about IBM, please visit http://www.ibm.com/software/uk/data/cognos/

Avisen

Avisen is a business and technology consultancy specialising in performance management with a focus on strategy creation, development and implementation. It provides advisory services and software distribution of solutions in the corporate performance management market. Avisen aims to provide specialist advice to enable organisations to build more effective capabilities to manage the performance of their businesses and allow them to achieve their desired targets.

Inca 

Inca, an Avisen Plc company, is the largest and most successful UK IBM Cognos partner, providing customers with the full suite of IBM Cognos products. Inca's professional services division is home to the most experienced performance management team in the UK, having implemented IBM Cognos solutions for over 400 companies across all industry sectors. Inca is the IBM Cognos Partner of choice for companies who want to gain a clear understanding of business performance through improved performance management processes. 

For further information, visit the Inca website at www.incasoftware.co.uk

IBM Cognos® Express

IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsized companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford.

IBM Cognos® Express provides midsize companies with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs and identify new growth opportunities.

About Kettle Foods

Kettle Foods, producer of KETTLE® Chips, was established in 1978 in Oregon, USA and came to Britain ten years later.  To keep doing what we do best, we kindly ask for your help to protect the KETTLE® Chips trademark. 

Please may we ask that our brand name is used in this way.  Also please do not use phrases such as "kettle style" to describe the category of chips. The correct term is "batch cooked" or "hand cooked".

About Mayflex

Mayflex is a successful, privately owned distributor with a respected name and a proven track record in partnering installers and integrators.