Acorn Systems Announces New Profit Improvement Solution Acorn Performance Analyzer®
Acorn leverages Microsoft Technology to Deliver a Highly Functional Solution at a Low Total Cost of Ownership
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HOUSTON - March 3, 2006 - Acorn Systems today announced the release of the company's new profit improvement solution, Acorn Performance Analyzer®. This solution builds on Acorn Systems proven industry-leading profit improvement capabilities. It provides companies with the tools and visibility they need to run their business for maximum long term profitability and sustainable, profitable growth.
Acorn Performance Analyzer® is built on secure, scalable, reliable Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with powerful interactive reporting from SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services; enhanced OLAP from SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services; enhanced Web-enabled dashboards from Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server 2003; and scorecarding from Business Scorecard Manager 2005; in the integrated Windows 2003 Server environment.
"Our new product enables our customers to exploit our superior analytical capabilities through many new innovative features, such as the Acorn business dashboard," said Torsten Weirich, Vice President of Research and Development at Acorn Systems. "Not only do they get great products from us, but Microsoft's superior Business Intelligence platform allows our customers to take advantage of many other best-of-breed applications as part of a cohesive solution that delivers superior value."
"This new profit improvement solution from Acorn Systems feature the breakthrough business performance and faster return on actionable insight of the latest Microsoft technologies," said Pradeep Rathinam, GM, US ISV Business. "With SQL Server 2005 as a foundation to Acorn Systems' profit improvement solutions, customers will benefit through enhanced scalability, improved data management and analysis, easier manageability, and the lowest total cost of ownership available in the market."
Acorn Performance Analyzer® provides insight into profit performance, cost optimization, capacity utilization, and revenue growth through its fully customizable portal interface. Executives see high-level key performance indicators, and can follow tailored drill-down paths to the root causes of profit and loss to effect real change. The ease of manipulating the data visualization allows clients to derive new cause-and-effect relationships from thousands - or millions - of data points.
Acorn Systems Customers include:
• Retailers - Lowe's; Spartan; Harris Teeter; SuperValu; PETCO
• Consumer Packaged Goods Companies - Kemps; American Beverage; Crowley; Coca Cola
• Financial Services - CitiGroup, Charles Schwab, Deutsche Bank, AIG, First Data Resources, Union Bank
of CA, Alberta Treasury Branches, AON
• Distribution and Logistics - Fisher Scientific, Sysco Foods, Amerisource Bergen, Johnson & Johnson
About Acorn Systems
Acorn Systems provides continuous enterprise-wide visibility into business performance enabling profit improvement at a low total cost of ownership. Acorn Systems delivers a solution that is verifiably accurate, auditable and actionable. Acorn Systems' solution is flexible and dynamic and provides a sustainable, scalable platform for Corporate Performance Management. Acorn Systems' clients come from many industries in North America and Europe, including financial services, retail, consumer product goods, and distribution and logistics
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