MarketSphere Launches Foundation Analytics™

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

MarketSphere Consulting LLC (“MarketSphere”), a national consulting firm that provides strategic advisory and technology expertise to help clients integrate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions, today announced the launch of a new BI solution, Foundation Analytics. Foundation Analytics is MarketSphere's framework to deploying business-based analytics that helps organizations develop new analytic models using Oracle® Business Intelligence Foundation Suite™ and the multidimensional predictive modeling capabilities of Oracle Essbase™.

After releasing Creating Business Harmony in February of 2011, a white paper compiling years of research, implementations, and case reviews on integrating ERP, BI and EPM to optimize business performance, Foundation Analytics is MarketSphere's next series in the evolution of creating organizational harmony. This new solution showcases how companies can improve business insight by:

• Integrating scorecard and strategy management with metrics and reporting;
• Building reporting depth through extensions to prepackaged solutions;
• Linking multiple subject areas and Hyperion™ EPM applications creating cross domain analytics;
• Driving pervasive consumption of analytics with mobile capabilities, and;
• Achieving high performance through Oracle Exalytics™.

To further validate the concepts behind Foundation Analytics, Joseph Coniker, MarketSphere Partner and BI Practice Lead, examined this approach during his recent studies at the Harvard Business School (HBS) as part of the General Management Program. “Participants enrolled in the program reaped the value of interactive case work with prominent HBS professors and peer-to-peer interaction with C-level attendees,” said Coniker. “More important, the engagement with professors and executives to discuss the approach and applicability of Foundation Analytics credited how business analytics impacts organizations in their journey to creating a sustainable competitive advantage,” said Coniker.

To learn more about the concepts behind Foundation Analytics:

• Download the newly released whitepaper, Foundation Analytics: Developing New Analytic Models Using Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
• Register to attend the live webcast, February 23, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm CST

About MarketSphere

MarketSphere, an Oracle PartnerNetwork Platinum Partner, provides strategic advisory and technology experts to help their clients deliver integrated ERP, BI, and EPM solutions to optimize business performance. They help organizations create business harmony. Their solutions address a broad range of process, technology, and organizational needs within the finance, human resources, supply chain, and sales and marketing functions, with specialization in strategic business performance, technology integration, and enterprise transformation initiatives. Learn more at www.marketsphere.com.

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