Former Cognos Executive Renee L Lorton Joins Advisory Board of Centrifuge Systems
July 10th, 2008, McLean, VA - Centrifuge Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next generation business intelligence software, announced today that software industry veteran, Renee L. Lorton, has joined its advisory board.
Ms. Lorton’s experience spans over 20 years of senior leadership in enterprise software and technology, including numerous senior management positions in Business Intelligence and ERP. Most recently, she was senior vice president and general manager of Performance Management Solutions at Cognos Inc. Prior to Cognos, Ms Lorton was senior vice president and general manager at PeopleSoft, where she held responsibility for its Financial Applications and Enterprise Performance Management (BI) divisions. Additionally, Ms Lorton served as Global CIO at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and vice president and general manager, Business Solutions Division of Best Software. She was CEO and founder of TaxLAB, a start-up that pioneered the automation of PC-based tax applications. Ms Lorton served on the executive management committee at Cognos, senior management committee of PeopleSoft and Global Technology committee at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Ms Lorton has been twice recognized as one of the ‘top 100 most influential people in Finance’ and is regarded a thought leader and industry spokesperson on corporate compliance and IT governance.
“I am thrilled to have such a seasoned and accomplished software industry executive serve as an advisor to Centrifuge.” Said Guljit Khurana, CEO of Centrifuge Systems. “Ms Lorton’s rich experience in the areas of enterprise software, business intelligence and performance management solutions across industries will be a great compliment to our team. Her extensive experience and expertise will help Centrifuge expand the presence of our ground-breaking technology in the BI space across markets.
"Companies across industries continue to face the challenge of sifting through mountains of data to make sense of their business and help them to improve performance and increase profitability.” said Ms. Lorton. “Centrifuge solutions will help organizations expose critical information in an easily accessible, timely, and intuitive manner. Centrifuge is clearly setting a new standard for visual information analysis.”
About Centrifuge:
Centrifuge Systems is a leading provider of next generation business intelligence software that helps organizations discover insights, patterns and relationships hidden in their data. The unique Centrifuge approach to data visualization is called Interactive Analytics and brings together three innovations in data analysis: Interactive Data Visualization, Unified Data Views and Collaborative Analysis. With Centrifuge, users ask open ended questions of their data by interacting with visual representations of the data directly.
Traditional business intelligence solutions require users to define what they want to see in advance and present the results in static dashboards. With Centrifuge, users determine what is of interest "on the fly", then manipulate the displays directly in a highly interactive fashion. The experience is refreshingly easy-to-use and the resulting insights can be extraordinary. Data integration has never been more flexible allowing users to join disparate data sources without any complex programming or wait times.
Centrifuge is used in some of the most demanding applications in the world, including counter-terrorism, homeland defense, cyber security and financial crimes analysis. Commercial applications of this technology include for fraud analysis, cyber security, performance management, customer relationship management, business intelligence, manufacturing analysis, clinical trials analysis and much more.
www.centrifugesystems.com
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Contact:
Tony Agresta
Centrifuge Systems, Inc.
571-830-1390