The Cortera Risk Data and Reporting Solution is designed to assist companies of all sizes and industries in gaining new insights into a business. As part of this integration with SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management customers will have access to Cortera’s wide array of information on businesses. The integration allows customers to leverage their investments in solutions from both SAP and Cortera® for a clearer view of their suppliers and customers. Cortera Risk Data and Reporting leverage both traditional and new types of data and are centered on an innovative approach to technology that ensures better and fresher data is available for businesses to assess their suppliers in real time. The combination of robust data and powerful analytics allows businesses to be smarter about their supplier risk and then take the appropriate action.

As part of the agreement between Cortera and SAP, both companies will share technology and product roadmaps.

Read the official announcement here.

Watch this video and in 90 seconds you’ll have a cool new way to keep track of your customers and stop deadbeats in their tracks.

See how WinWholesale Inc. one of the leading suppliers of domestic and industrial supplies and materials has optimized their credit and collections operations with the help of Cortera. Judy discusses her success in leading her team of credit and collections professionals in a high-volume environment leveraging Cortera’s full suite of offerings.

In addition to the updates you receive in your iPhone & iPad app, you will also receive a daily email alerting you to which of your customers need your attention. With Growth Clues you will now know exactly where to prioritize sales efforts and take action. We look at five main categories and notify you when we spot an opportunity:

• Increase in key purchases
• Improving payment behavior
• Signs of operational changes
• Signs of improving financial conditions
• Signs of increased online activity

The app is available for immediate download in the iTunes AppStore. If you are currently a Cortera PULSE™ subscriber, the app is free. Simply search for Cortera in the AppStore, download the Cortera PULSE app and enter your online username and password. You’ll have your daily PULSE alerts delivered right to your iPhone or iPad.

With the Cortera PULSE app you will be able to access your daily alerts including:

• Recent financial and business news articles
• Bankruptcy filings
• Tax liens
• Civil Judgments
• Payment behavior score changes
• And now Growth Clues

You also get a monthly benchmark report that gives your management team insights into your riskiest accounts and customers that should be paying you faster. All for only $99/month for an unlimited number of customers and users.

Not a Cortera PULSE subscriber? Click here to learn more or call 877-569-7376.

Get the app today! Download the app here (iTunes link).

• Significant changes in Cortera Payment Report (Cortera CPR™) risk scores
• Financial and operational news, covering over 10,000 publications
• Growth clues, signs a business is expanding
• Bankruptcy filings
• Tax liens and civil judgments

“We only endorse companies that we truly feel represent the best of the best for our members, said Dirk Van Dongen, President, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. “Having personally worked with Cortera over the last several months and watched their solutions in action at NAW member companies I fully recommend their suite of business information products. For any distributor looking for better insights about their customers and suppliers, Cortera should be their first stop.”

Read the official press release here.

With the Cortera PULSE app you will be able to access your daily alerts including:

• Recent financial and business news articles
• Bankruptcy filings
• Tax liens
• Civil Judgments
• Payment behavior score changes (CPR)

Not a Cortera PULSE subscriber?

Click here to learn more or call 877-569-7376.

Cortera PULSE continuously monitors all of your customers for meaningful changes in their business and alerts you once a day to potential opportunity and risk so you can take immediate action. You also get a monthly benchmark report that gives your management team insights into your riskiest accounts and customers that should be paying you faster. All for only $99/month for an unlimited number of customers and users.

Get the app today!

Download the app here (iTunes link).

• Click here to view them all.
• Click here to get a demo of Cortera PULSE and spot the upside and downside in your customer portfolio, despite all of this mess.

• Part 1 – China & The Economy, Economist, Chris Kuehl @ Cortera Fresh Perspectives 2010
• Part 2 – Economic Stimulus & the Deficit
• Part 3 – The US Economy: The Big Issues – Unemployment
• Part 4 – The US Economy: Inflation, Interest Rates & Regulation
• Part 5 – The US Economy: Consumer Spending & Housing

So credit leaders at the high end are in information overload. They are bombarded with free and paid sources mostly focused on large public companies, internal systems, and management reports. At the other end, there are those without many information sources or tools who are also overloaded with manual research, weeding through cumbersome reports and simply relying on institutional knowledge. For both groups getting solid intelligence on the vast majority of their portfolio (likely close to 100% private companies) is still a challenge.

This week we are rolling out Cortera PULSE. You’ll find a simplified approach to customer risk monitoring and alerting. If you are like me, you want the facts without any fluff and that’s just what gets delivered each day. Here is what you get:

• The ability to monitor all of your customers
• A single, daily risk alert in a consolidated, easy to follow format
• Alerts on liens, judgments, bankruptcies, news and credit score changes
• Thousands of news sources consolidated down to only the financial stories that matter to you
• Coverage of 20,000,000+ private businesses (public too, but that’s the easy stuff)
• A monthly management report that sums up your customer portfolio with actionable insights into your top credit balance accounts, riskiest accounts, most collectible accounts and more

Interested in learning more? We’ll give you a personal tour. Give us a call or click here.

You can check them all out here, at our official contest site: www.thecomeback2010.com

We’d just like to take a moment to thank all of the entrants for their thoughtful submissions. We were genuinely moved by the amount of time, effort, and creativity that went into each of the entries, and we wish you all the best as you continue to drive your businesses forward.

Thanks again for spending time with us over the past few months, and we look forward to seeing all of you in the Cortera community!