Antivia and Mikan Associates partner in Midwestern United States

Sept. 23, 2011 - PRLog -- Business intelligence specialist, Antivia, which is trusted by SAP customers around the world to deliver increased value from their dashboard deployments, today announced a partnership with Mikan Associates who will join Antivia's XWIS Certified Consultants program and offer Antivia's XWIS product as part of the dashboard solutions they deliver to clients in the Midwestern United States.

Mikan Associates, which operates from offices in Chicago, IL and Madison, WI, is a business intelligence solutions specialist and member of the SAP extended business program.

XWIS is the fastest, most cost-effective way to create, manage and deploy actionable dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Xcelsius.

Jorel Digman, Business Development Manager at Mikan Associates commented: "XWIS adds speed to our dashboard delivery methodology, which means our consultants are more productive, and are able to deliver dashboard solutions that meet our clients' specific needs much faster. With the agile BI capabilities of XWIS, we are able efficiently tackle our clients' end-user driven BI projects - projects which often require us to combine structured information from SAP Business Objects with unstructured information sources - far more easily than with Xcelsius alone."

Mark Hudson, CEO of Antivia, added: "Mikan Associates have an excellent reputation for delivering high quality, strategic and sustainable BI solutions to their customers in the US mid-west. We look forward to working with Mikan Associates to help customers in Illinois and Wisconsin deliver enterprise Xcelsius projects faster, better, and at lower cost using XWIS."

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Antivia, an SAP Solutions Partner, develops the XWIS software platform, which provides the fastest, most cost-effective way to create, manage and deploy actionable dashboards with SAP Business Objects Dashboards and Xcelsius.

SAP customers worldwide trust XWIS to help them:
- Slash dashboard development time and total cost of ownership
- Accelerate adoption and deployment of actionable dashboards
- Promote effective decision making through increased interactivity and greater accessibility.

XWIS has won numerous awards, including the SAP award for best integration with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.

Customers include: AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group, BMC Software, Bord Gais, Cochlear, Eli Lilly, Fifth Third Bank, Hewlett Packard, ING Direct, 20:20 Dialogue, Nissan-USA, Pratt & Whitney, Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, Swire Coca-Cola, and Telenor.

Antivia is privately funded with offices in North America and Europe.

Twitter: @antivia