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ICS Sponsored Butler 'Application Development & Lifecycle Management' Symposium

Application development is undergoing challenges in the face of major trends in software infrastructure and development practices. This event has helped to address these challenges and endeavoured to provide answers.

Event dates: 25th & 26th June 2008

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ICS Presented at the 'Enabling & Delivering Software As A Service' Event in Amsterdam

ICS were selected by the SIIA OnDemand Europe Steering Committee as one of the preview companies to present during the 2008 conference in Amsterdam.

Event date: 9th -11th June 2008

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ICS, the parent company of RSinteract has been acquired by Business and Decision to strengthen Oracle and Microsoft capabilities.

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Web seminar: Reporting Services for End-Users - Available Now!

Do you use SQL Server Reporting Services in your business?

Do you face any of these reporting Problems?

• Lack of intuitive self-service reporting & analysis
• Over reliance on certain individuals to produce reports
• Bottlenecks in IS / IT with requests for new reports & information
• Existing reporting capability too inflexible & expensive to be deployed to end users
• Lack of decision support for middle management
• Costly use of DBA resource to produce reports

Find out how you can resolve these issues by viewing this web seminar.

This web seminar demonstrated how your business users can intuitively report and analyse on information via Reporting Services, using the award-winning, adhoc, end-user tool, RSinteract.

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ICS – The Microsoft BI Experts win Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server project with a Midlands County Council. The project will commence at the beginning of April 2008.

For further information about PerformancePoint Server 2007, click here.

End of Days for SQL Server 2000
20th March 2008

If there was ever a time to consider moving to SQL Server 2005 it’s NOW. Firstly Microsoft will be turning off mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 for most editions of the product in April 2008. Of course, it’s only wise that businesses should want supported products in their infrastructure. Secondly, the imminent launch of SQL Server 2008, means that businesses will want to increase their competitive advantage by moving to a more up-to-date, robust and powerful generation of BI solutions. For further information on upgrading to SQL Server 2005 contact us.

Web Seminar Recording: SQL Server 2005 - Benefits of upgrading.

The end is nigh for SQL Server 2000, Microsoft is turning off mainstream support for most editions of the product this April.

In this web seminar ICS discussed the many reasons why businesses should upgrade to SQL Server 2005, focusing on the underlying database enhancements, and benefits of the new Business Intelligence features that comes free with the suite. ICS also previewed some of SQL Server 2008’s exciting enhancements.

Topics included:

• Relational database enhancements
• Business Intelligence Features
• Developer Productivity Benefits
• Performance Enhancements
• Enterprise Data Management & Integration Improvements
• How to upgrade to SQL Server 2005

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Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
1st February 2008

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Greek rugby player joins ICS sales team.
21st January 2008

International Greek Rugby Player, Alex Mendoros is the latest addition to the ICS Sales Team. As well as playing for the Greek side, Alex has developed a strong background in industrial manufacturing, coupled with experience at another successful Business Intelligence Firm. He has spearheaded some prominent ERP and BI projects for mid-market and enterprise companies from a cross-section of verticals.

His responsibilities at ICS will include driving implementations of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, data warehousing  and dashboarding solutions.

Gaming organisation selects RSinteract as their preferred end-user reporting tool. 
15th January 2008

Putney based Law Firm purchases RSinteract.
28th January 2008

RSinteract Feedback Competition Winners

We had more than 100 entries from companies all over the world in response to the ‘RSinteract Feedback Competition’. The competition’s prize was one of three copies of ‘RSinteract Standard Edition’ and the three lucky winners were:

Jim Plant – Barclay’s Capital (UK)
Jonathan Woodward – AT&T Mobility (USA)
Gabriel Atuanya - Elsevier Science (UK)

RSinteract receives 4 / 5 rating in SQL Server Magazine Review.

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Web Seminar Recording: Gaining the Competitive Edge

Join our industry expert Paul Raine, Operations Director of expressHR (ISV) to see why he has selected RSinteract as his BI tool of choice. 

Subjects in this web seminar recording include:

   1. BI problem for an ISV
   2. BI solutions in the market
   3. Partnership with ICS
   4. Sales Approach / Go-to-Market strategy

Register now to find out how ICS can help you increase your savings, revenue and customer satisfaction.

This web seminar will consist of an in-depth case study, delivered via an interview with Paul Raine, followed by a live demonstration of the solution in use at expressHR.

expressHR is a leading provider of recruitment vendor management technology, which supports over 10,000 users today and processes in excess of £500M of transactions pa.

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Office PerformancePoint – Proof of Concept discount!

As a leading Microsoft Business Intelligence Partner in the UK, ICS would like to invite you to consider a unique offer. Sign up for a discounted ‘Proof of Concept’ today to find out how PerformancePoint can help your business to articulate goals; monitor business activity; identify and analyse issues; and collaborate and take action.

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ICS / RSinteract exhibit at exclusive SQL 'KATMAI' design review in Redmond, USA.

During the inaugural Microsoft BI Conference 2007, ICS (authors of RSinteract) was invited to exhibit at an exclusive 4-day SQL Server 'KATMAI' SYSTEM DESIGN REVIEW at Microsoft's Main Campus in Redmond, Washington, USA. During this time, ICS's Chief Technology Officer was able to submit feedback on the features that were proposed as part of the development roadmap for the next release of SQL Server - Katmai.

With only 80 seats available, the audience was able to benefit from a face to face session, hearing first hand about the release of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai). Furthermore, it provided a platform for discussion with experts from the SQL Server Engineering Team.

"These early meetings with the SQL Server engineers are extremely beneficial. It enables us to align our RSinteract development plans with SQL Server 2008, which means that our RSinteract customers can be assured of a future proof solution" says Dave Grant, CTO of ICS.