Telltale 2.0 Provides Web-Enabled Operation Of Enterprise Database Management
Painted Word Inc., has announced the release of Telltale 2.0, an enhanced version of the company's datamart usage analysis software, which now offers significantly enhanced analytic capability providing managers and information suppliers with critical information about application usage patterns. These include common types of user queries, most frequent sources of information, and usage across different applications. Telltale 2.0, now 100% Java, has been redesigned using Painted Word's Mocha Blend Analytical Platform and is a powerful application for understanding information consumers and targeting future investment in line of business information applications.
"As a vendor focused on providing targeted information applications, we are keenly aware of the value of the information about datamart usage," explains Painted Word's Vice President of Product Development, Jon Christensen. "Telltale is an example of an analytic application that targets information usage itself, in the same way that analytic applications are deployed around other operational systems of a business. As more businesses evolve into analytic information providers, we see the demand for applications such as Telltale growing significantly."
Painted Word's Telltale 2.0 is an analytic application targeting datamarts that aids managers and information suppliers in understanding their OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) application usage by time, activity, user types, and information source. Telltale enables users to easily perform high-level usage analysis based on application log file information, providing views of key metrics in a variety of forms including interactive summary graphs and tables.
Telltale currently supports IBM DB2 OLAP, Hyperion Essbase and ShowCase Strategy OLAP servers and provides critical data and business intelligence about database usage such as:
Armed with information on the actual usage of analytic information sources, managers can make decisions and recommendations on future investment. Greater end-user productivity can be achieved, and competitive advantage gained over enterprises not employing information applications such as Telltale 2.0.
Telltale 2.0 boasts improvements such as the ability to import transaction data an average of seven times faster than the original version. Information usage charts can be created and manipulated to arbitrary scales and can be assigned icons for quick retrieval. Additional viewing enhancements have been built into the application giving the user a choice of prior weeks, days, months and relative ranges. Telltale has also been given a detailed log view, providing a list of individual records in a log file that make up any selected search criteria.
Painted Word Inc. is an emerging leader in providing web-architected component-based business intelligence software. The company currently develops, markets and supports the Mocha Blend Analytical Platform, an open, Internet standards-based framework and Java component suite that offers businesses the fast assembly and immediate web deployment of targeted information applications. Customers of the Mocha Blend Analytical Platform include Ernst & Young, Cathay Pacific Airways, Health Canada, MIM Healthplans, National Wildlife Federation, Texas Instruments, etc.
The firm also offers a comprehensive suite of business intelligence training, consulting and support services to assure successful solution delivery and skills transfer. Painted Word consultants have extensive experience delivering functional analytical applications for management reporting, performance measurement, planning, and profitability.
Painted Word maintains strategic alliances with FP&A Train, Hyperion Solutions Corporation, IBM Corporation, Inprise Corporation, KL Group, Inc., Lotus Development Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Tidestone Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.