Posted by Mike Boryski on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 01:03 AM
To satisfy some of our overseas demand, we are pleased to announce that
Assimil8 Ltd. is now an authorized reseller of our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software within the United Kingdom. In addition, Assimil8 is certified to provide software support to our overseas clients.
Thus, for current and prospective UK-based clients, we encourage you to
contact Assimil8 to discuss your organization’s requirements for the integration of high impact maps or advanced visualizations into your IBM Cognos reports and dashboards. Assimil8 is fully versed on the software and welcomes your call (
or email).
Alternatively, please
contact us and we will introduce you to an appropriate representative within Assimil8.
Please stay tuned for additional partner announcements in the very near future.
Posted by Mike Boryski on Thu, Apr 15, 2010 @ 02:43 AM
SpotOn is continuing to grow. Today we are very pleased to announce that Craig Timberlake has joined our team as the Director of Sales, Americas. As his title indicates, Craig will lead our US sales efforts, with specific emphasis on expanding the sales success of our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software.
Craig brings to our team significant sales experience in Information Management Technology and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Prior to SpotOn Systems, Craig held a variety of positions within IBM’s Information Management Software group. Before IBM, Craig co-founded and managed a private consultancy with practice areas specializing in Information Technology, Business Process Outsourcing, and Sales Force Effectiveness. Craig has also held a variety of senior roles with ExxonMobil.
Having started last week, Craig has already been introduced to a number of current and prospective clients. He even managed to observe the installation, configuration, and use of SpotOn Vantage at a new client site.
We look forward to you having the opportunity to meet Craig in the near future - possibly at an IBM Cognos or ESRI event at a city near you, or perhaps in the Chicago area - Craig's base. Go Cubs Go!
Welcome Craig!
Posted by Mike Boryski on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 @ 06:15 PM
SpotOn Systems is pleased to announce our Gold sponsorship of the 7th Annual IBM Government Forum 2010 on March 17 in Washington, DC.
Visit us within the Partner Pavilion to see how our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software enables your organization to benefit from the integration of fully interactive maps from ESRI, the world leaders in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), directly into your IBM Cognos dashboards and reports.
Registration for the IBM Government Forum 2010 is free. We look forward to seeing you there.
Posted by Mike Boryski on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 @ 12:33 AM
Our offices will be closed on Monday, February 15th to observe Family Day in Ontario and Presidents’ Day in the United States.
For customer support during this period, please contact us as per the instructions in your Customer Care & Success Guide.
Our offices will reopen fully rejuvenated and ready to serve you on Tuesday, February 16th. We apologize for any inconvenience that this office closure may cause you.
Happy Presidents’ Day/Family Day!
Sincerely,
The SpotOn Team
Posted by Mike Boryski on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 12:41 AM
We will be showcasing the latest release of our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC from February 17-18, 2010.
Should you be at the event, we encourage you to visit us within the IBM booth (#302) to receive a personalized demonstration of the tremendous analytical benefits of integrating ESRI maps within an IBM Cognos dashboard.
While there, make sure that you also check out the demonstration of the IBM Maximo Asset Management software.
Although biased, we believe that your venturing through the copious amounts of snow to meet with us in Washington next week will definitely be worth your effort.
We hope to see you there!
The SpotOn Team
Posted by Mike Boryski on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 @ 05:31 PM
Today we held a 45-minute webinar on "Integrating Maps into IBM Cognos". The session drew record attendance and turned out to be our most popular online event to date.
The webinar showcased the use of the latest release of our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software to quickly integrate a fully interactive ESRI map into an IBM Cognos report. We also introduced our bundled SpotOn Vantage/ESRI ArcGIS Online Map Services offering. This package enables IBM Cognos clients that are currently without in-house GIS resources to easily and cost-effectively integrate maps into their IBM Cognos reports.
For those that attended, thanks for your active participation. Your questions were terrific! Your positive comments and emails afterwards were also very much appreciated.
As promised, a recorded version of the event along with the slides will be posted on our site shortly.
In February we will host a webinar that showcases the use of SpotOn Vantage to integrate advanced visualizations from FusionCharts into your IBM Cognos reports. At the tail end of today's webinar, Darren, our CTO, gave a sneak peak of what you will see next month. Cool stuff.
Should you be interested in this next webinar, please continue to visit our website for the event specifics. Better yet, sign up for our newsletter to stay informed on all of our future events.
Thanks.
The SpotOn Team
Posted by Mike Boryski on Thu, Dec 24, 2009 @ 03:17 PM
To enable our team to recharge their batteries and to celebrate the holidays with their friends and families, our offices will be closed on the following dates:
• December 25 and 28, 2009
• January 1, 2010
For customer support during this period, please contact us as per the instructions in your Customer Care & Success Guide.
We will be back to full bench strength on January 4, fully rejuvenated and ready to serve you in 2010.
Happy holidays!
Posted by Mike Boryski on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 @ 03:25 PM
The market demand for our award-winning SpotOn Vantage software has put us in the fortunate position of needing to expand our team. Given the volume of organizations seeking to integrate their IBM Cognos BI software with the mapping information and analysis capabilities from ESRI, we anticipate this trend continuing.
For now, we are specifically looking for a Product Specialist to augment our dynamic software development team that pushes the edges of enterprise application software.
The right candidate that acts quickly may even get the opportunity to join us for our company Christmas party ... an added bonus that you definitely don't want to miss.
Posted by Mike Boryski on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 @ 12:58 AM
We are extremely excited to announce that yesterday SpotOn Systems was named winner of the IBM CTO Innovation Award at the IBM Information On Demand 2009 Global Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
We won the prestigious award for SpotOn Vantage, our off-the-shelf software that seamlessly integrates IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software with mapping information and analysis capabilities from Geographic Information System (GIS) software providers, such as ESRI.
Should you be unfamiliar with the award, IBM defines it as follows on their site: "The CTO Innovation award recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the charge in exploiting Information Management’s latest capabilities in innovative, cutting-edge, unique and exciting new ways. These one-of-a-kind solutions will be drivers in tomorrow's new markets, fostering new innovation at an ingenuity level outside the normal boundaries seen today."
Naturally, we are extremely honored to be recognized by IBM with such an award. Considering the daunting list of well respected competitors for this award and the impressive list of past winners, we were thrilled to simply be shortlisted ... let alone win.
We wish to express our sincere thanks to those that nominated us, the selection panel, and the distinguished judges for their respective roles in our receipt of the 2009 IBM CTO Innovation Award.
Learn more about the award-winning SpotOn Vantage solution.
Posted by Mike Boryski on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 @ 01:24 PM
On Thursday, October 22, 2009, our very own Chris Ovens and Darren Nelson hosted a live webinar entitled "Introduction to Geographic Business Intelligence (GBI)".
The webinar shared insights into the benefits of integrating the power of geography and spatial analysis (e.g. ESRI GIS software) with the information foundation provided by the IBM Cognos BI solution. Specifically, Chris and Darren identified and provided examples of the four perspectives of Geographic Business Intelligence:
- Map-enabled reporting
- Spatial analysis on Business Intelligence (BI) data
- Geographic data enrichment
- BI on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) assets
To learn more about how GBI may benefit your organization, we invite you to view or download the recorded version of this webinar.
Thank you once again to all of those that attended and contributed to the success of the live event. We are ecstatic about the overwhelming participation and the positive feedback received to date.
As per your requests, we will be hosting similar web conference events on a frequent basis. We encourage you to sign up for our monthly newsletter or visit our website regularly such that you won't miss our upcoming webinars.