The BSP Security Migration Self-Service offering will allow customers to purchase the software on a limited time basis to complete a security migration on a self-service basis or for BSP Partners to be engaged to carry our Security Migration projects on behalf of customers for a one-off fee.

More information can be found in the BSP PDF Brochure for Security Migration Self-Service

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CHICAGO, IL- May, 2011—BSP Software LLC, an IBM Business Partner and proven leader in innovative, integrated solutions for IBM Cognos software, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued patent number 8,073,863 for its MetaManager® technology.

The patent, entitled “Batch Management of Metadata in a Business Intelligence Architecture”, was awarded by the USPTO on December 6th, 2011. The patent grant comes within months of BSP’s Integrated Control Suite technology patent grant, further validating the innovative solutions that BSP Software has prided itself on building.

Since its inception in 2006, MetaManager has grown to over 25 modules spanning an entire administrative lifecycle of capabilities.  The product’s core competencies include backup and recovery, deployment, find and replace, documentation, validation, security administration, security auditing, cube management and user profile maintenance.

“The IBM Business Analytics partner community offers deep and rich expertise in a variety of disciplines.  BSP Software has prided itself on pioneering solutions to dramatically improve a customer’s ROI within new and existing IBM Cognos deployments”, said Andrew Rachmiel, President of BSP Software LLC.  “Many years of implementation experience and customer insight have enabled us to develop deep and rich solution offerings, and we’re proud to have added another patent to our growing portfolio of intellectual property.”

According to Andrew Weiss, Vice President of Product Research and Development, “With MetaManager, Cognos administrators will streamline the development effort and automate seemingly routine tasks that are very labor intensive or not possible within the IBM Cognos software suite.  Our customers have seen an immediate return on their investment in MetaManager, often within the first few weeks of having the product in-house.”

With a global reseller channel, BSP Software has a worldwide customer base spanning 18 countries and a customer portfolio that includes IBM and a wide range of verticals such as Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Banking, and more. BSP Software’s MetaManager is clearly demonstrating the ability to lower an organization’s total cost of ownership for business analytics deployments by streamlining and automating many of the routine administrative and support tasks.

Planit CPM also provides support to customers purchasing the BSP Software products.

BSP Software’s products include MetaManager, Integrated Version Control, Integrated Change Management, Integrated Archive Service, CPM Explorer, and BSP Recycle Bin.

We will be adding more information in the coming weeks but to find out more about Cerebra please visit their website:

http://www.cerebra.org.uk/

Amongst the new features in 10.1 are:

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
• Support for Microsoft Excell 2010
• New Java based client

Version 10.1 also drops support for:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft SQL Analysis Services

Supported customers can download the latest version now from:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029087&wv=1

Over the next few months expect to see more blog posts with tips and advice relating to all aspects of IBM Cognos software products.