BrightStar Partners / BSP Software Awarded United States Patent for Integrated Control Suite Technology

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 7,945,589 for its Integrated Control Suite^TM technology.

“We are tremendously excited about the Integrated Control Suite architecture and its vast capabilities”

The patent, entitled "Integrated Change Management in a Business Intelligence Environment," was awarded by the USPTO on May 17th, 2011. The patented technology is the essence of BSP Software’s integration of change management functionality into business analytics environments such as IBM Cognos.

The patent grant comes in advance of the May 2011 release of Integrated Control Suite (ICS) version 2.3. ICS is one of the many offerings in BSP Software’s rapidly growing portfolio of solutions which continue to set standards for Business Analytics Competency Centers worldwide.

ICS’s tight integration into the IBM Cognos environment ensures transparency to users and supporting IT departments. BSP Software’s ICS was built from the ground up to appear and behave as part of the core IBM Cognos product suite. Above and beyond version control and content management, ICS provides the capabilities needed to enforce workflow and audit controls throughout the lifecycle of business analytics artifacts. The added capabilities in this comprehensive release are the direct result of a vast knowledge base stemming from BSP’s seasoned Professional Services organization.

“BSP prides itself on delivering thought leadership through cutting edge products that help our customers succeed. This patent credentializes the incredible innovations we pioneer. Partnering with customers to appropriately understand and solve the growing demands of a business analytics environment has and will always be at the top of our list of core beliefs. The ICS solution was driven by our customers’ need for tight controls over every aspect from development to deployment,” said BSP Software’s President and co-founder Andrew Rachmiel. “The release over-delivers on our goal of addressing the growing need for Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance in the IBM Cognos product suite”.

Tightly coupled inside an IBM Cognos environment, the ICS solution’s added features and functionality greatly benefit users at every level of an enterprise.

“We are tremendously excited about the Integrated Control Suite architecture and its vast capabilities,” said Andrew Weiss, Vice President of Product Research and Development. ICS unites the proven reporting and analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos with the accountability and tight controls required by most organizations. “Leveraging the foundation of our widely successful version 2.2 release, which has been deployed around the world to organizations large and small, this comprehensive release adds integrated deployment, client versioning, recycle bin and expanded broadcast messaging capabilities to the existing integrated version control, change management, content management, workflow, expanded compliance reporting, and support for validated environments that require tight governance.”

With a worldwide customer base spanning a wide range of verticals including Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Banking, and more, BSP Software’s Integrated Control Suite is clearly demonstrating the ability to lower an organizations total cost of ownership for business analytics deployments by automating the governance and compliance processes.

For more information on BSP Software’s Integrated Control Suite, our other Implementation-Based Software® solutions and Professional Services offerings, please visit http://www.bspsoftware.com/ICS.

About BSP Software LLC and BrightStar Partners, Inc.

BrightStar Partners, an IBM Premier Business Partner, is a technology-based, global IBM Cognos Business Analytics consulting and software development organization. We help our clients improve their business performance through maximizing their investment in technology and processes to drive better information throughout the enterprise. With our broad technical and business experience, we help our clients realize the benefits from their reporting, analysis, dashboarding, data warehousing, planning and consolidation solutions to drive true business value.

BSP Software LLC, an IBM Independent Software Vendor, extends the vast implementation experience as the product development arm of BrightStar Partners, Inc. Through many years of implementation, product training, and product development, we develop software solutions that drive quick ROI.

For more information, please visit http://www.bspsoftware.com and http://www.brightstarpartners.com.

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