New York, NY and Pittsburgh, PA (ContentDesk) April 20, 2006 -- Interactive Edge LLC, a leading provider of data analysis and visualization solutions, and Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA), innovators in the collection, processing, analysis and delivery of time and mission critical information, today announced the two companies have finalized a reseller agreement. As a result of this agreement, MSA customers will be able to purchase Interactive Edges flagship product, XP3? Suite, directly from MSA as part of their enterprise information management solution.We are pleased to have this opportunity to add value to MSAs well-known information management solutions, said Zel Bianco, president and CEO of Interactive Edge.
The combination of MSAs information management and Interactive Edges user-friendly information analysis and visualization features takes business intelligence to the next level, and forms an offering that customers will be hard pressed to find elsewhere.The XP3 technology suite will enable MSA clients to rapidly discover additional data insights and convert them into format-rich, automated presentation-ready reports.
Reports can include robust business intelligence functionality with pervasive access to remote or local data.XP3 Suite is a great fit with our offerings and our objectives, said George Ryan, Division President of Management Science Associates, Inc.
Putting data to work forms a cornerstone of our solutions, yet it takes more than information collection, aggregation and analysis to enable customers to fully utilize their data for successful business growth. XP3 Suite provides our customers with the extra edge they need to compete and win in todays complex market environment. Turning Data into RevenueManagement Science Associates powerful enterprise information solutions have made huge amounts of valuable data available for strategic business units to access, mine and analyze to drive profitability throughout their organizations.
XP3 Suite works with MSA solutions to make these vast amounts of data readily available for daily use by distributed sales and management teams in familiar Microsoft? Office applications.
How XP3 WorksXP3s powerful data analysis engine and flexible end-user tools summarize and visualize the right data for the right audience. Integrated with Microsoft Office, XP3 tools easily create visually stunning, data-driven presentations directly in Microsoft? PowerPoint?.
The results include concise and actionable presentations, complete with intelligent summaries, charts and graphs that can be understood by business users of all kinds.
The Gartner Group refers to this as XP3s Point of Impact, because this is where and how a corporations investment in data and technology converts to revenue.Thousands of sales and marketing professionals, from the worlds most successful manufacturers, currently use XP3 to automatically develop and populate data-driven sales and management presentations from data sets as large as hundreds of gigabytes, with hundreds of thousands of members in certain dimensions. In addition to freeing up valuable resources across the enterprise, XP3s PowerPoint presentations provide field users and management with intelligent findings about the data in the warehouse, as well as the ability to customize the presentation and sales message on the fly.About Interactive EdgeInteractive Edge develops and markets data solutions designed to put the right information, in the right hands, at the right time. The companys flagship solution, the award-winning XP3 Suite, combines a powerful data analysis engine with flexible end-user tools to summarize and visualize useful, compelling data on demand; and has proven itself highly effective as a point-of-impact solution for distributed sales and management teams. Interactive Edge is a Microsoft Certified Partner and has achieved SAP certification for NetWeaver? integration.
The Company is the recipient of Consumer Goods Technology Magazines annual awards, including Best in Class for Sales Force Automation & Analytics and #1 in Customer Experience, for two consecutive years.
Headquartered in New York, NY, customers include Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverage, ConAgra Foods, OSRAM Sylvania, and many Fortune 500 manufacturers and merchandisers.
Further information about the company and XP3 Suite is available at www.interactiveedge.com.About Management Science Associates, Inc.MSA is an information management company that for four decades has provided market leaders a competitive edge through advanced analytics/business intelligence, data management and IT services as well as enterprise strategy consulting.
Its solutions have transformed business practices enabling clients to effectively manage future business outcomes.
As the world's largest independent processor of diverse marketing data sources, MSAs expertise in data integration and analytical modeling/forecasting resulted in its founder being awarded the ARFs Michael Naples Research Industry Leadership Award.
MSA provides solutions in marketing ROI measurement, customer segmentation/targeting, pricing/promotion, media planning/scheduling, marketing plan optimization and business forecasting.
The companys Enterprise Strategy group combines MSAs capabilities to produce powerful suites of interconnected solutions across client corporations. With over 800 employees, MSA provides solutions to more than 300 clients including some of the largest U.S. and foreign corporations and institutions.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, MSA also has offices in New York; Chicago; Atlanta; High Point, NC; Cardiff, UK; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Shanghai, China.
More information about Management Science Associates can be found at www.msa.com.EDITORS NOTE: Copies of this news release, as well as the companys press kit, are available at www.interactiveedge.com, by faxing your request to 508-359-2277, or by calling 508-359-9800.(c) 2006 Interactive Edge LLC.
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The impact of inventions on the printing industry.
Copyright 2006 Smarket Limited
Printing is not something one may think of often, but it does impact our lives everyday.
From the morning newspaper to church on Sundays, printing is important to our society.
Without printing we wouldn't have books, papers, magazines or many other information tools.
To truly understand printing one must look at the machines, processes and technology that has shaped its history.
The construction of machines have taken printing from hand cranked to high power.
The first papermaking machine which developed rolls of paper was made in London in 1803.
In 1846 Richard March Hoe made a rotary press that arranged printing plates on a cylinder, pressing them onto the paper.
In 1866 a machine was invented for the purpose of folding newspapers.
In 1884 the typesetting machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in Baltamore, made printing easy.
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Like an anchor to the past, your stuff holds you in its grip, never letting you fully look to the future, to what could be. Instead it forces you to look at, and to live among what was, what might have been, or what will never be. Stuff is not love, it?s not anger, it?s not sadness or grief. It?s not happy or sad, it?s not good or bad. It has no feelings or thoughts, it can?t laugh with you or cry with you, and it doesn?t get hurt when you...
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Forty Million Americans Drinking Lead Contaminated Water
Copyright 2006 Linda Symonds
Learning disablities, reduced IQs, shortened attention span, hypertension and behavioral problems in children can be linked to drinking lead contaiminated water.
Adults may suffer from high blood pressure, damage to the brain, nervous system, stomach and kidneys.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 40 million Americans consume lead contaminated water on a daily basis.
The EPA also estimates that 480?000 cases of learning disorders in children, and 560?000 cases of hypertension in adults? occur each year in the United States as a result of lead contamination.
How does water become contaminated with lead?
Lead is not normally found in water until it passes through pipes and plumbing fixtures that contain lead.
Homes built before 1986 are likely to have lead pipes, fixtures or solder.
Homes built after 1986 that contain "lead free" plumbing, are also...
Forty Million Americans Drinking Lead Contaminated Water