ZSL’s SmartPrise Cloud Solution Bagged Cloud Computing Excellence Award from TMC Magazine

Edison, NJ, Feb 8, 2012: ZSL announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named SmartPrise Cloud as a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.

"We are greatly honored. This award recognizes our vision to deliver 'business aligned cloud models' to address the enterprise need for a business ready IT Infrastructure that brings them the business agility at reduced TCO," said Shiv Kumar, Executive Vice President, ZSL.

SmarPrise Cloud Framework offers the Cloud Enablement, Integration and Management solutions and Services to the enterprises in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud environment. It enables the enterprises to build, manage, integrate, deploy and run their applications in a much secured and scalable Private or Public or Hybrid cloud environment of their preferred vendors, that reduces the associated business risks and TCO involved in application, infrastructure and security management.

"ZSL has been recognized for their achievement in bringing innovation and excellence in the market while leveraging the latest technology trends to create an enriched user experience," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, TMC.

"Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud communications, TMC is proud to announce ZSL as a recipient of the first Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "SmartPrise Cloud has demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud."

The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognized the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the January 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.

For the complete list of winners, please visit the URL:
http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/2012/01/24/258750-tmc-reveals-cloud-computing-excellence-award-winners.htm

About ZSL

Zylog Systems Limited (ZSL) is a Global Systems Integrator & Business Solutions Provider headquartered in London, UK and Edison, New Jersey, USA. With more than 4500 employees worldwide, ZSL is focused on developing and delivering enterprise IT solutions and services using emerging technology platforms to keep our customers' TCO low and ROI high. ZSL is a pioneer in business innovations and technology solutions, and has expertise in providing Onshore, Offshore and Near-shore technology solutions and services to enterprises worldwide. To learn more about ZSL and its offerings, please visit www.zslinc.com.

About TMC

TMC, celebrating their 40th Anniversary in 2012, is a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility and Cloud Computing (formerly InfoTECH Spotlight) magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4G Wireless Evolution; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Expo; SIP Tutorial 2.0:Bringing SIP to the Web; Business Video Expo; Regulatory 2.0 Workshop; DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; CVx; AstriCon; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Business Intelligence & Analytics – Changing Trend

Business Intelligence came into light when Data Warehouse rose during 1980’s. Notable players like Oracle, SAP, IBM and Microsoft introduced BI tools that helped Business users to generate Business Intelligence report from Data Warehouse Environment. During 1990’s, due to rapid growth in web data, the Business Intelligence market rose to new height, and new players such as Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica came into Business Intelligence market. Due to the fact that the data become available everywhere, mid 2000’s market introduced a new and advance Business Intelligence tools (BI 2.0) with more reporting and connecting capabilities.

Today, Business Users started expecting Business Intelligence to collaborate, search, communicate, help for decision making and predict the opportunity and growth. With new innovations in Cloud and Mobility, Business Analytics and Intelligence reports made available anywhere, anytime via any device. Business Intelligence on Cloud helps Enterprises to implement Business Intelligence environment easily and quickly.

The objective of this article will be achieved if we discuss about the current Business Intelligence trends.

Business Intelligence for User Centric Collaboration and Social Media – merging Business Intelligence and Social Networking tools will increase the accuracy of critical data that will help the Enterprises to take the right decision. Today everyone uses atleast one Social Media for collaboration and to connect with people. With this, Social Media started providing quality data to the Enterprises for generating Intelligence Business Analytical Reports which enable business users to discover new and innovative ideas and to compete with innovation demanding market.
Visualization – The business users expect to view their analytical data in high quality visualization and real-time interactive charts and bars rather than viewing the reports in traditional rows and column format.
Mobile Business Intelligence – An attractive topic that goes around all most all industry atleast for last three years. With new releases of Apple iPad, Blackberry Playbook and Android Tablets, created more demand for Business Intelligence and Analytical reports, interactive dashboards and scorecards to fit into these smart devices. Due to ease of use and interactive mobile applications, the ability to deliver Business Intelligence and Analytical Reports become relatively simple with all the mobile technology available out there.
Predictive Analytics – Business users started realizing the use of using historical data to identify the pattern of opportunity and business growth. As a result, they started leaning towards Predictive Analytical Intelligence Reports that heavily helps and guides them to take the right decision keeping future in mind.
Agile Business Intelligence – Technology deliverables moves towards continuous deliverables of quality Business Intelligence solution to keep the business user satisfied. The business users and decision makers expect dynamics and real time Business Analytics that enable flexibility and allows the user to work with the data often and do necessary changes on fly. Agile Business Intelligence triggers the technological options for Self-service Business Intelligence and Cloud based Business Intelligence.
Cloud based Business Intelligence – Business Intelligence and Analytical Reports, Interactive Dashboards and Scorecards are developed, published and consumed on Cloud without worrying about infrastructure setup, hardware and software installations. To grow and maintain the competitive technological edge, it’s absolutely essential and became important to adopt Cloud computing and Business Intelligence together. Cloud Business Intelligence solution brings in new business opportunities and growths by address the challenges such as security, complex pricing, moving large amount of data and integrations. Business user enjoys the benefits such as scalability, easy and simple implementation, reduced cost, accessibility and computing instances.

With the current change in Business Intelligence and Analytical trends, it become vital for IT industry and Business users to adopt the changes to maintain and grow their business successfully.

ZSL in CRN Fast Growth Companies In the News

ZSL in CRN's "Five to Follow" News Coverage
Jennifer Bosavage, CRN, Jan 24, 2012

	January's Hot Fast Growth Solution Providers CRN's Fast Growth companies made recent headlines, continuing to grow revenue and visibility in January. From cloud computing solutions to speaking at the White House jobs forum, check out what's happening at these five IT solution providers.
	MicroTech Speaks At White House Jobs Forum Bill Mayall, director of knowledge solutions for MicroTech University, represented the organization at the White House "Insourcing American Jobs Forum." The event focused on the increasing trend of companies choosing to "insource," or keep jobs in the U.S. and make new capital investments domestically. Fast Growth VAR MicroTech, a veteran-owned business that is also on CRN's VAR500 list, is a leading proponent for addressing the critical issue of veterans' employment; Mayall is a Vietnam-era veteran.
	Transcend United Partners With Coraid Solution provider Transcend United Technologies will provide next-generation Ethernet SAN storage for its cloud solutions through a partnership with Coraid. Transcend's cloud solutions serve market segments including unified communications, data infrastructure, backup/recovery and mobility/wireless. Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays offer flexible, high-performance storage in a less complex manner than traditional SAN solutions.
	ZSL Joins Microsoft Platform Modernization Alliance ZSL will take part in the Microsoft Platform Modernization Alliance, which aims to bring together Microsoft’s expertise in delivering technology platforms -- including application and integration middleware -- with ZSL’s experience in modernizing legacy applications using its proprietary framework, SmartPrise Migrator. ZSL's legacy software code conversion utility is a cloud-enablement and modernization platform that helps enterprises automatically convert and migrate applications written in PowerBuilder, FoxPro and Visual Basic programming languages to .Net, Windows Azure and SOA technologies. According to ZSL, SmartPrise Migrator could reduce time and money spent on rewriting and migrating legacy applications compared with competitive approaches. For more on CRN's Fast Growth companies, check out December's Five to Follow.