TrackVia Rolls Out New Build-Your-Own App Features
Cloud-based database provider TrackVia just introduced a set of new features that add more collaboration and reporting functionality…
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11 Tips for Successful Mobile Business Intelligence
Whether you are considering a mobile business intelligence (BI) strategy or recently deployed a mobile solution, the following…
Contest Highlights R Language’s Big Data Analysis Power
Hadoop is an open source software framework that enables organizations to process huge amounts of data, huge as…
IBM Debuts Netezza Analytics Appliance Geared to Retail Industry
Big Data analytics are already a mainstay of ambitious scientific research projects and financial institutions, but now IBM…
Enkata Updates Architecture for Big Data
Enkata, a provider of cloud-based customer experience analytics and workforce optimization solutions, is seeing the needs of its…
Business Analyst, IT Must Be Buddies for Effective Business Intelligence
One of the songs in the musical “Oklahoma!” involves a politician attempting to persuade farmers and ranchers to…
Arcplan Updates Collaborative Business Intelligence Software
IDC recently tapped collaborative decision management as one of three key trends that is driving change in companies’…
Are There Enough Data Scientists to Go Around?
Big data and the challenges of analyzing it have never been more important to enterprises. However, if you…
SAP Reports Best Financials in 40-Year History
SAP AG is locked in a battle with rival Oracle for the hearts, minds and checkbooks of business-management…
Birst Wants to Democratize Big Data
Organizations of all sizes, not just large enterprises, have growing stores of data. Until now, however, Birst CEO…
Seven Business Intelligence Predictions for 2012
Business Intelligence vendors are always talking about the improved analytics inside their software Perhaps one day we will…
Hadoop Secures 1.0 Release
In the world of Big Data, Hadoop is the big thing. Yet even though Hadoop has become the…
Rethinking Business Intelligence for Marketing: Strategy, Technology, Metrics
Recently, IBM (NYSE: IBM) released a study of worldwide CMOs (chief marketing officers), their concerns and their plans.…
IBM Buys Supply Chain Analytics Firm Emptoris
IBM is on a roll. After announcing it would acquire cloud-based commerce analytics software firm DemandTec last week,…
Top Business Analytics Startups of 2011
Want to leverage the energy and innovation of a hot analytics startup but not quite sure where to…
Birst Aims for Analytics Sweet Spot with In-Memory Database
While a growing number of vendors are introducing in-memory solutions to help companies get more bang for their…
SAP Makes Social Analysis Play with NetBase Agreement
With both Oracle and Salesforce.com making moves into social media analytics with recent acquisitions, it’s not surprising to…
IBM Snaps Up DemandTec for Cloud-Based Commerce Analytics
Seeking to beef up its Smarter Commerce initiative with cloud-based analytics, IBM Thursday moved to acquire San Mateo,…
JasperSoft Advances Business Intelligence for Big Data
Open source business intelligence provider JasperSoft is among the many software vendors looking to help companies derive value from…
JackBe Makes Business Intelligence Self-Service
Despite all of the talk about self-service business intelligence, Chris Warner, VP of marketing for business intelligence software…
HP Combines Autonomy and Vertica for Big Data
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is harnessing the technologies of recent acquisitions, Autonomy and Vertica, in its newly expanded Information…
Business Intelligence is Going Mobile
Though early efforts at mobile business intelligence faltered, the trend has taken off in the last year. Dresner…
Will IBM Watson Transform Analytics?
Business intelligence and analytics software is the most widely used technology among more than 4,000 information technology (IT)…
Big Data Attracts Big Money
The move towards Big Data and NoSQL is being fuelled by big money, as investors bet on the…
TIBCO Adds Social Collaboration to Spotfire 4.0 Business Intelligence Platform
TIBCO Software (NASDAQ: TIBX) has announced a new version of its business intelligence platform, Spotfire 4.0. The latest…
Oracle CRM and Business Intelligence in Two Real-World Environments
Each year, Oracle opens its customer doors to the press at its annual Oracle OpenWorld event. Enterprise Apps…
SAP Unveils In-Memory Data Warehouse, Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a range of new solutions spanning business intelligence, in-memory analytics, data warehousing and…
Mobile Business Intelligence: Slow Start, Bright Future
There has been lots of buzz about mobile business intelligence, but actual adoption numbers have remained low. The…
Data Virtualization and Big Data Business Intelligence
When I set out to write this article, I thought I could assume a basic understanding of data…
Pentaho Business Analytics Gets an In-Memory Boost
Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho is advancing its capabilities with new in-memory features. The Pentaho Business…
IBM Brings Big Data Analytics to the Cloud, iPad
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that its Hadoop-based data processing and analytics platform, InfoSphere BigInsights, is available on…
Big Data, MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL: The Relational Technology Behind the Curtain
One of the more interesting features of vendors’ recent marketing push to sell business intelligence and analytics is…
Oracle Buys Endeca for Unstructured Business Intelligence
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced plans to acquire Endeca Technologies, adding to its unstructured data management, ecommerce and…
HTML5 Will Transform Mobile Business Intelligence and CRM
HTML has evolved considerably since it was first mapped out by Tim Berners-Lee more than 20 years ago.…
QlikTech Makes Business Intelligence Social, Mobile
Using social decision-making tools to improve the business discovery process for business intelligence users is the focus of…
An In-Depth Look at Oracle Fusion Applications
A year ago, Oracle (NASDAQ: CEO) Larry Ellison made a big splash at the 2010 Oracle OpenWorld about…
IBM Adds Analytics to Business Processes
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in…
Oracle Speeds Up Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP
The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich…
Oracle Exalytics Aims for Business Intelligence at the Speed of Thought
Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the…
MicroStrategy Offers Free SaaS-Based Business Intelligence Service
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) hopes to attract new users of its business intelligence software with the public beta launch…
JasperSoft Makes Business Intelligence Mobile
Jaspersoft is expanding its business intelligence software for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The Jaspersoft 4.2 release also provides…
SAP Lets Partners Share Custom Business Intelligence Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has launched a new partner and reseller program that the enterprise software giant says will…
Oracle Grows Software Business, Moves Away from x86 Hardware
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle…
Big Money for Big Data and Mobile Business Intelligence
Privately owned Opera Solutions and MeLLmo Inc. are the latest business intelligence companies to receive investment funding to…
SAP Unveils Smart Meter, Profitability Apps for HANA In-Memory Analytics
At SAP TechEd 2011 in Las Vegas today, SAP (NYSE: SAP) unveiled two new solutions built on its…
Rethinking Mobile Business Intelligence
As if the advent of agile business intelligence wasn’t enough of a puzzle, IT buyers are now being…
Rocky Economy Drives Interest in Work Force Analytics
Back in July, I wrote a post suggesting CIOs could provide business value by working with human resources professionals.…
IBM Targets Risk Analytics with Two Acquisitions
IBM (NYSE: IBM) made a pair of acquisitions this week aimed at bolstering its fast-growing business analytics practice.…
A Dozen Ways to Get the Most out of Your BPM System
The market for business process management (BPM) software has been strong in recent years, as the promise of…
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Virtualization
One of the most fundamental decisions that business intelligence implementers in IT make, at the beginning of every…