Join us at SAP Forum 2010 in Dubai on November 2

If you are working in or traveling to Dubai, you may be interested in attending the SAP FORUM 2010 at Madinat Jumeirah Hotel on November 2, 2010 to discover how today's new technologies and new strategies can help you drive long-term, profitable business growth. Gain premier knowledge on how to maximize innovative technology and business strategies to help you achieve greater results at every level. Become a best-run business by running your organization with all aspects of your business network - wherever they are in the world - working as one.

Attend SAP FORUM 2010 at Madinat Jumeirah Hotel on November 2, 2010 to discover how today's new technologies and new strategies can help you drive long-term, profitable business growth. Gain premier knowledge on how to maximize innovative technology and business strategies to help you achieve greater results at every level; Become a best-run business by running your organization with all aspects of your business network - wherever they are in the world - working as one.

Catch Clariba at the SIMO Network Trade Fair in Madrid from October 5-7

Barcelona, Spain: Clariba is proud to be one of the select partners exhibiting in the SAP Partner Zone at the SIMO Network Trade Fair in Madrid this week.

The SIMO Network brings companies and individuals together to exchange business and technical knowledge. Organized by IFEMA and held in the halls of Feria de Madrid, this annual meeting features commercial exhibitions, seminars, debates, and a wide-ranging program of activities for information and communications technology professionals. Last year 21,000 visitors attended the SIMO event over the course of three days.

The event is centered on four key areas: infrastructure and systems; business tools and solutions (including business intelligence); telecommunications and internet; and sector organizations and institutions.

As specialists in the planning, installation, development and deployment of business intelligence solutions, Clariba is well positioned to provide expert BI advice to visitors at the SIMO Network event. A strong partnership with SAP enables Clariba to provide the best solutions to customers, from data management to the development of reports, dashboards and scorecards.

Members of the Clariba BI team will be unveiling the new Clariba Showcase for SAP BusinessObjects at the Clariba stand in the SAP Partner Zone from October 5-7. This showcase features interactive and highly visual dashboard, scorecard and reporting solutions for a variety of industries and business units. In addition, the team will be on-hand to answer questions and discuss the benefits of business intelligence.

“Clariba is pleased to be an exhibitor in the SAP Partner Zone at the SIMO Network Trade Fair in Madrid”, comments Marc Haberland, Managing Partner of Clariba. “We look forward to showcasing our business intelligence expertise and meeting with IT and business decision makers to discuss SAP BusinessObjects solutions during the three-day event.”   

The SIMO Network Trace Fair in Madrid takes place at October 5 – 7 in Hall 10 and the North Convention Centre of the Feria de Madrid from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily. Visitors are welcome to register at the door on October 5. For more information on the event please visit www.simonetwork.es.

About Clariba

Clariba delivers innovative, reliable and high-quality business intelligence (BI) solutions to customers worldwide. We are recognized and respected as one of the leading SAP Business Intelligence consultancies in EMEA. Clariba develops best practice BI solutions for dashboards, reporting and analysis, providing our customers with clarity and actionable insight to improve their business performance. Our customers in Europe and the Middle East are leaders in the telecommunication, education, manufacturing, and banking sectors. By working closely with business leaders and IT teams, Clariba turns vital data from ERP, CRM and other transactional systems into actionable insight for all levels of the organization. For more information on Clariba’s business intelligence solutions visit www.clariba.com or contact us at info@clariba.com.

Gain Powerful Analysis for Financial Management with Clariba Finance Central

Clariba is pleased to announce the release of the Clariba Finance Central demo, which highlights our latest financial management solution powered by SAP BusinessObjects. This BI solution was developed for one of our telco customers but is applicable to any corporate finance department in any industry.

The customer challenge that lead Clariba to develop this financal management solution was two-fold. From an IT perspective, the team spent 2 business days each month downloading information from the Hyperion Financial database and manipulating the data with other spreadsheets to create a set of graphs and tables. These graphs/tables were then copied and pasted in to a PowerPoint for the monthly management pack. The challenge from the business perspective was that the CFO had to wait several days for the information to be prepared and the overall reporting process lacked visual analysis capabilities.

Based on these challenges our customer wanted to consolidate their financial information and access it easily, gain better analysis capabilities (mainly to do with enhancing the visual components and enabling easy comparisons), and automate the financial reporting process to reduce monthly manual efforts and decrease errors. As a result Clariba developed centralized financial information in an easy-to-use dashboard allowing for extended analysis in a highly visual format.

"The Finance Central solution is completely automated, user-friendly and standardized, providing actionable insight to business users of all levels, including the CFO, and it can be adapted to any data source," comments Marc Haberland, CEO and Managing Partner of Clariba.

Clariba Finance Central was developed using several tools in the SAP BusinessObjects stack including: Data Integrator (to consolidate and aggregate the required KPIs in a finance datamart), BusinessObjects universe (with Query as a Web Service) and Xcelsius (for the interactive dashboard).

For more information about the Clariba Finance Central solution or our customized solutions for a variety of industries and functional areas, we invite you to contact us at info@clariba.com.

Join Clariba at the SAP World Tour 2010 in Doha, Qatar on June 22

Doha, Qatar: Clariba is pleased to be sponsoring SAP World Tour 2010 – Qatar, the SAP business and technology event for C-level executives, IT decision makers, and Business managers.

In today's economy, Best-Run businesses must be transparent and accountable, lean and agile, customer centric and collaborative. Now more than ever, meeting these challenges requires a highly focused business strategy and streamlined execution, and this is what SAP World Tour 2010 is all about.

The SAP World Tour 2010 offers attendees the opportunity to discover best-in-class tools and solutions for better information management and business insight. The full-day agenda includes SAP Demos, SAP Solutions for C-Level Managers, Industry Sessions, SAP Services and SAP BusinessObjects Technical Workshops.

Clariba is recognized as a leading SAP Business Intelligence consultancy in EMEA and a specialist in SAP BusinessObjects technology. Members of the Clariba BI team will be available during the event to demonstrate interactive and highly visual dashboard and reporting solutions for a variety of industries and business units.

“Clariba is proud to be sponsoring the SAP World Tour 2010 – Qatar event,” explains Marc Haberland, CEO and Managing Partner of Clariba. “As a trusted SAP partner and provider of SAP BusinessObjects services throughout the Middle East, this event provides an excellent opportunity for us to connect with business and technology leaders in order to better understand their challenges and demonstrate some very powerful Business Intelligence solutions.”   

The SAP World Tour 2010 – Qatar will be held on June 22 at the Sharq Village Hotel in Doha from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Attendance at the SAP World Tour 2010 is free of charge. If you wish to find out more about the event or register to attend, please visit www.sap.com/mena/worldtourqatar.

About Clariba

Clariba delivers innovative, reliable and high-quality business intelligence (BI) solutions to customers worldwide. We are recognized and respected as one of the leading SAP Business Intelligence consultancies in EMEA. Our consultants, based in the Middle East and Europe are SAP BusinessObjects certified professionals and experts in the planning, installation, development and deployment of BI solutions. Clariba develops best practice BI solutions for dashboards, reporting and analysis, providing our customers with clarity and actionable insight to improve their business performance. Our customers in the Middle East are leaders in the telecommunication, education, manufacturing, and banking sectors. By working closely with business leaders and IT teams, Clariba turns vital data from ERP, CRM and other transactional systems into actionable insight for all levels of the organization. For more information on Clariba’s business intelligence solutions visit www.clariba.com or contact us at info@clariba.com.

Spanish Insurance Provider Benefits from BusinessObjects XI Migration

Clariba demonstrates the value of Business Objects XI within Adeslas, a progressive health insurance provider in Spain.

Adeslas, a progressive health insurance provider in Spain, recently engaged Clariba to help them gain rapid and reliable access to policyholder data. The Adeslas Business Objects (BO) Administration team recognized the importance of updating their version of BusinessObjects in order to increase the functionality and productivity of their BI tool. Clariba consultants used their experience gathered in prior migrations to provide a smooth transition to Business Objects XI with minimal impact to the end-user base.

"Clariba understood our BI requirements from the beginning. As a result of their Business Objects expertise, this was the easiest migration we have ever experienced in the IT systems area," says Alberto Sisí, IT Manager at Adeslas. "The project was delivered to the fullest satisfaction of the BO Administration team and end users."

As a result of the migration to BO XI, the Adeslas BO Administration team no longer manually delivers and distributes reports, resulting in immediate ROI. With this migration Adeslas has also achieved integration with their IT platforms and security policies, allowing single sign-on for their users. This seamless integration into the work environment, coupled with Business Objects XI best-in-class reporting capabilities, has had a very positive effect on user satisfaction.

"Our consultants led the effort of transitioning old customized developments to the new platform without the loss of any functionality. This was achieved not by deploying an 'out of the box' installation, but by planning an adapted migration aligned to the customers' expectations," says Marc Haberland, Founder and Managing Partner of Clariba.

The new capabilities of Business Objects XI will allow Adeslas to expand the reach of its business intelligence platform to a wider network of users - something the company is now evaluating for its regional offices.