Please be aware that the CNS offices, including the Support Desk, will be closed on April 6th for a companywide event. As Monday April 9th is a National Holiday in the Netherlands, normal support hours will be resumed on Tuesday April 10th. In the mean time you can use our Online Support Center to manage your issues.
 

January 2011: We have added a new section on our website called Resources. In there you will find interesting materials about the BI market and DataWarehouse Explorer products. As a start we have created three new white papers in this section:

• Most BI systems never get into the user's system

This white paper signals the issue that many BI applications suffer from low user adoption and the consequences that has for the return on investment of the money spent on the implementation of BI technologies.

• Why knowledge workers don't dig BI data

In this white paper we explain why managers and other information workers are not encouraged to use the information in corporate datawarehouses and in data marts to increase the quality of their decision making.

• BI user adoption: make it easy

This white paper explains the importance of ease-of-use for the adoption of BI systems and how you can increase the number of people in your organization who use corporate data to make better decisions.
 

Check out these free new resources here.

May 2010 – GUARD Insurance Group, commercial property and casualty insurers specializing in small- to mid-sized businesses across more than half of the United States, has selected DataWarehouse Explorer as the reporting and analysis tool decision makers will use with the new BI system. Departmental managers across Sales, Underwriting and the Analytical Division as well as upper management will use the tool to keep a close eye on ongoing business, spot trends and identify outliers.

GUARD has selected the combination of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and DataWarehouse Explorer based on the ease of implementation and the user friendliness of the system. “DataWarehouse Explorer was the best on performance, stability and price, and it gives us exactly the functionality we need, “ says Jim Thomas, Assistant Vice President of Technical Analysis at GUARD Insurance Group.

“We are delighted to have GUARD as a new customer,” says André Verdaasdonk, Sales Director at CNS International, the creators of DataWarehouse Explorer. “It confirms our belief that Business Intelligence systems only thrive when the user can access information in an extremely easy to use and familiar manner.”

Find out more about GUARD Insurance Group on www.guard.com.

Find out more about DataWarehouse Explorer on www.dwexplorer.com.

Utrecht, February 4, 2010 - CNS International is pleased to announce that Eveline Franken has joined the team on February 1st. Eveline is a seasoned DataWarehouse consultant with 5 years of experience ranging from reporting, ETL, data model and business logic design. Most of Eveline's projects have been in the Financial Services sector where auditability and data quality with terabytes of data are top of mind. Before joining CNS International, Eveline contributed to the datawarehouse of a major Dutch bank, streamlining international data collection and reporting procedures as part of the Basel II compliance requirements.
Eveline holds a bachelor degree in Informatics at the Haagse Hogeschool in The Hague, the Netherlands. She strengthens our consultancy and support team where she will focus on supporting our clients in the Real Estate sector. You can reach Eveline on eveline.franken@cns.nl.

CNS International delivers user-friendly, affordable and scalable analytic solutions, helping companies to improve business responsiveness through fast analysis of current and historical data.
CNS International is a fast growing software company with over 200 companies and government agencies worldwide relying on their solutions. Strategic relationships with consulting, OEM en ISV organizations contribute to the success of CNS international in developing solutions and increasing customer satisfaction.
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