Audi Japan Sales Selects Datawatch To Accelerate Business Processes And Drive Better Financial Performance

Datawatch's Recent Expansion into Japan Delivers Strategic Win in Asia Pacific

CHELMSFORD, MA--Oct. 17, 2012: Datawatch Corporation the leading global provider of information optimization solutions, and Audi Japan Sales (AJS), today announced that AJS, the retail-only subsidiary of Audi Japan, has selected Datawatch's information optimization product suite to deliver a key performance indicator (KPI) dashboard application to management and key stakeholders within the company. By transforming structured and static semi-structured information into highly interactive analytical assets through Datawatch's information optimization technologies, Audi Japan Sales managers and business unit owners will obtain a clear understanding of the factors driving their business and will be able to modify the related processes to improve performance.

"Audi Japan Sales is very excited about utilizing Datawatch's information optimization platform to help leverage business process efficiency improvement, and ultimately gain greater visibility of our business performance," said Laurent Scaltritti, chief financial officer, Audi Japan Sales K. K.  The information optimization platform will become the key business and financial performance measurement system within the AJS organization, and will likely be expanded quickly by Audi Japan itself into its wholesale operations. 

"We at Datawatch are excited about Audi Japan Sales' decision to select Datawatch to deliver this application and believe that it demonstrates that the value of optimizing information is a global imperative," said Michael A. Morrison, president and CEO of Datawatch.  "With our recent investment in the Asia Pacific region, we believe we are uniquely positioned to deliver information optimization and big data solutions to many companies like Audi Japan Sales throughout the region," continued Mr. Morrison.

Audi Japan Sales was one of several key customers and partners to join Datawatch in the Asia Pacific region over the past quarter.  With new partnerships in Japan, Korea, Thailand and The Philippines, Datawatch has significantly increased its presence and plans to continue to expand its capabilities to better service the growing Asia Pacific market.

ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION
Datawatch Corporation is a leader in providing information optimization products and solutions that allow organizations to deliver the greatest data variety possible into their big data and analytic applications.  Datawatch provides organizations the ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files, and EDI streams into these applications to provide a 360 degree perspective of the issues and opportunities that exist in their businesses. With more than 40,000 organizations worldwide using Datawatch's products and services, including 99 of the Fortune 100, it is obvious that businesses of every type can benefit from the power and flexibility of Datawatch's industry leading solutions. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in London, Munich, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. For more information, visit Datawatch