BSP Software Awarded United States Patent for MetaManager Technology

MetaManager offers IBM Cognos users the ability to gain full control over all aspects of their business analytics deployment through one intuitive, powerful user interface.

CHICAGO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--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.

“Batch Management of Metadata in a Business Intelligence Architecture”

The patent, entitled "Batch Management of Metadata in a Business Intelligence Architecture", was awarded by the USPTO on December 6^th, 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.

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

About BSP Software LLC

BSP Software LLC, an IBM Business Partner, offers a broad range of software solutions that drive quick ROI to IBM Cognos customers worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.bspsoftware.com.