In the News Archives

December 26, 2007 | eWeek.com
“Getting Smart is Getting Cheaper”
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November 25, 2007 | SmoothSpan Blog
“Interview with LucidEra’s Ken Rudin”
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October 24, 2007 | The Daily Deal
“Investing in Intelligence”
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October 15, 2007 | SearchDataManagement.com
“Business Intelligence Vendors React to SAP's Plans to Acquire Business Objects”
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October 9, 2007 | Investor's Business Daily
“Traditional Software Giant SAP Faces 'Hosted' Challenge”
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October 8, 2007 | SmoothSpan Blog
“SAP Acquiring Business Objects”
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October 1, 2007 | CRM Magazine
“Analyzing the Sales Process”
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September 24, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
“Making Sense of It All”
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September 20, 2007 | InformationWeek
“Five Questions for SAP’s Leo Apotheker.”
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September 19, 2007 | InformationWeek
“SAP Will Have a Tough Time Selling On-Demand Software, Predicts SaaS Pioneer.”
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September 19, 2007 | ComputerWire
“LucidEra Expands Analytic Options for Salesforce.com”
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September 19, 2007 | SaaSWeek
“Are SAP and Business Objects on the Wrong Track with SaaS?”
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August 15, 2007 | DM Review Magazine
“On-Demand Business Intelligence.”
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July 26, 2007 | destinationCRM
“LucidEra Clearly Debuts On-Demand Business Intelligence.”
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July 25, 2007 | Intelligent Enterprise
“LucidEra Unveils New Tools for On-Demand Forecast-To-Billing Application.”
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July 25, 2007 | StartupSquad
“LucidSnapshots - Another Big Reason Why On-Demand Enterprise is Here to Stay”
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July 11, 2007 | Business Intelligence Network (Shawn Rogers)
"I have to say that LucidEra might just be the horse to bet on. Their SaaS analytics model is interesting to say the least."
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June 29, 2007 | Sandy Kemsley of Column2
"LucidEra gives [SMB executives] a chance to experience better data integration, better data analysis, and all in a way that can be more easily shared amongst people in the organization. Furthermore, it can be done by the business managers themselves."
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June 27, 2007 | Datamonitor Computerwire
"LucidEra is the latest on-demand business intelligence software vendor to put is software up for sale on Salesforce.com's AppExchange online marketplace. But the company claims to go much further than others" (registration required).
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June 21, 2007 | SIIA SaaS webcast series
"Motivating, Managing and Compensating Sales Teams"
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June 6, 2007 | Software Business Transformation Summit 2007
“LucidEra CEO Ken Rudin to Appear at the Event Organized by The 451 Group and Tier 1 Research”
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June 1, 2007 | IndustryWeek, Business Intelligence
“The Sizzle of the Data Steak”
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May 15, 2007 | The Wall Street Journal
“Web Based Software Services Take Hold”
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May 15, 2007 | Salesforce.com Reporting and Dashboards blog
"Over the last few months a small company called LucidEra has managed to capture the imagination of the business intelligence (BI) market."
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May 8, 2007 | San Jose Mercury News
"LucidEra, which sells business intelligence software via the Web, is one of several highly touted start-ups at this week's Software 2007 conference"
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May 1, 2007 | The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
"The Adoption of On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions by Mid-Market Companies."
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April 30, 2007 | Salesforce.com blog
"Probably the furthest ahead in terms of true on-demand data warehousing, the Forecast-to-Billing application combines Salesforce data with accounting data from Oracle financials and other systems."
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April 24, 2007 | InfoWorld LIVE!
“Ken Rudin, described the LucidEra SaaS solution on the internet radio show.” Click here to download the episode.
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April 11, 2007 | Network World
"10 Enterprise Software Companies to Watch"
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March 29, 2007 | eWeek.com quotes Adriel Lares, CFO of 3PAR >>
"I can have my cake and eat it too. [LucidEra] won't cost a lot to get implemented, and I will have the BI and analytics I require to get the company running – customer information, how big is an order, what is the average price on those orders."
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March 15, 2007 | Infoworld quotes Ken Rudin who spoke at SaaS Summit 2007
"On-demand, SaaS is more than just hosting of software. Hosting is about moving software from a customer premise to the software provider's, while on-demand software includes simplicities in setup, usage, and the ability to buy."
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March 7, 2007 | Enterprise Systems' Newsletter
"Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?"
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March 7, 2007 | Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
"Rob Meinhardt (CEO of KACE) said he's using LucidEra to analyze data from the sales pipeline and accounts receivable to give him a better understanding of the company's cash flow."
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March 6, 2007 | Jeff Kaplan on the THINK IT Services Blog
"Drawing on his vast industry experience, Ken Rudin is one of the most compelling industry speakers regarding the fundamental challenges facing incumbent software vendors (ISVs) as they attempt to transition to a SaaS model."
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March 6, 2007 | ZDNet
"Dubbing itself the salesforce.com of business intelligence, LucidEra ends its beta period and formally opens for business."
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March 6, 2007 | Datamonitor ComputerWire
"LucidEra Inc. hopes to shake-up the pricy business intelligence market with a more affordable software-as-a-service offering aimed at mid-sized firms."
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March 6, 2007 | Sandy Kemsley on ebizQ
"The really cool thing is that there is no distinction between the design and view environment: if you're viewing a report, you can change it interactively."
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March 6, 2007 | StartupSquad
"One of the most awaited startups to launch in 2007 has opened its door to new customers. LucidEra has launched its On-Demand BI platform and is all set to shake the enterprise reporting and data integration world."
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January 16, 2007 | Investor's Business Daily
“Profiles LucidEra CEO Ken Rudin and discusses the threat posed by software-as-a-service to traditional software vendors”
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January 8, 2007 | StartupSquad, analyst and blogger Vivek Puri
"Startup to watch-out for in 2007"
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