Press Release: Saama Launches Business Intelligence Center of Excellence (BI CoE)

Saama launches Business Intelligence Center of Excellence (BI CoE)

New offering focusing on support and enhancement uses extensive, direct experience, targeted methodology and IP/tools to cut costs

Campbell, CA, December 04, 2011: Saama Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of the Business Intelligence Center of

Excellence (BI CoE), a unique offering designed to optimize the productivity of Business Analytics deployments in the enterprise through a

cross-functional, shared services structure. By addressing operational needs and support and enhancement functions, the new managed

service enables companies to refocus critical resources on higher-order tasks and slash costs.

“Most major BI deployments involve a high level of cost and complexity, and supporting

them inevitably drains resources from other critical business functions,” said Suresh

Katta, CEO of Saama. “Our new BI CoE offering is designed to help companies re-

prioritize their IT resource allocation, while ensuring that support and enhancement of

the existing implementation continues with a much matured set of automated tools and

well proven methodologies along with team of top-tier BI practitioners. This helps them

with a very reliable tool based and repeatable process driven CoE while cutting costs

almost immediately and focusing important in-house resources where they’re most

needed.”

Saama’s BI CoE operation can provide ongoing production support and maintenance of

BI implementation. Tasks performed by the Saama BI CoE include 1) Production

Support: Data Fixes, Ongoing Support, Scheduling, Monitoring and Admin Activities 2)

Enhancements: Modification to existing reporting systems 3) Maintenance: Planned Recycling Refresh and Synchronizing environments.

Saama’s tools and technologies have been in production for over 7 years supporting many large Fortune clients in many areas including a)

Data Discovery Tool b) Report Metadata Management c) Data Lineage and Impact Analysis d) Data Validators e) Report Catalog Analyzer

Saama’s intelligenceDISTILLERYSM is a well proven set of methodologies to manage the entire process from Preparing, Planning,

Distilling and Disseminating phases of Business Analytics implementation through our industry recognized Strategize, Visualize and

Operationalize approach.

Saama has effectively implemented support models for BI implementations for large enterprises using its own targeted methodology, tools

and IP. These services are backed by more than three million hours of Business Intelligence experience and architectural expertise

gathered over more than a decade.

To know more about Saama’s BI CoE, visit: http://bit.ly/rzPjaM

About Saama

Saama is a business analytics company, working with major software vendors to create solutions that help organizations make better

quality decisions. Saama manages enterprise data at various stages in its lifecycle to transform complex data streams into valuable

information that directly improves profitability. Since 1997, Saama has blended technical expertise, functional knowledge and patented

technologies to serve Fortune 500 corporations in industries such as health care, life sciences, technology and media, as well as public

sector agencies.

To know more about Saama: http://www.saama.com

Contact: Durga Prasad

Saama Marketing

marketing@saama.com

Saama’s BI CoE operation can provide

ongoing production support and

maintenance of BI implementation.

Tasks performed by the Saama BI CoE

include 1) Production Support: Data

Fixes, Ongoing Support, Scheduling,

Monitoring and Admin Activities 2)

Enhancements: Modification to existing

reporting systems 3) Maintenance:

Planned Recycling Refresh and

Synchronizing environments.