BI Trends for 2011
New data from Forrester Research indicates that the enterprise business intelligence market is maturing. The firm’s “BI Maturity…
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SAP Business Intelligence: A Focus on Spreadsheets and Salesforce.com
Enterprise software SAP (NYSE: SAP) puts the focus on spreadsheets and Salesforce.com in its cloud-based Business Intelligence. According…
Analytics and In-Memory Databases Are Changing Data Centers
Traditional databases, with index files and table spaces on disk and paging tables into memory, are becoming a…
Top Business Intelligence and Analytics Stories of 2010
Business intelligence and analytics have become something of a corporate obsession in recent years, as the severe economic…
Employees Tap Into Business Intelligence Mobile Apps
One of the hottest emerging technologies to arrive on the enterprise scene is mobile business intelligence (mobile BI).…
MeLLmo Raises $10M For Mobile Business Analytics Product
MeLLmo, Inc., has said the company has raised $10 million in third-round funding. According to this report on…
Microsoft Releases ‘Dryad’ Number Cruncher
Microsoft has released a competing product to Google’s MapReduce distributed number crunching platform. According to ChannelRegister, Microsoft’s Dryad…
BI ‘Insurgence’ the Big Story of 2010
As the year draws to a close, it’s time for all of those “looking back at the trends…
Is PowerPivot the Future of Microsoft Business Intelligence?
Despite its dominance in the OLAP market, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could be joining the growing ranks of vendors…
What is Future of HP’s Neoview?
Earlier this month longtime HP observer Mark Smith, CEO and EVP of Ventana Research, wrote that HP may be planning to…
LoopFuse OneView Offers Lead Capture Analytics
Marketing automation provider, LoopFuse, has announced the release of OneView v.3.29. According to the company in this PR…
Teradata to Acquire Aprimo
Teradata has agreed to purchase Aprimo for $525 million. The privately held Indianapolis-based company provides enterprise software that…
Hadoop Tool Offers Business Analytics Missing Link
Customers looking for an inexpensive way to work with larger sets of data can take advantage of Karmasphere…
Finding Value in Embedded Business Intelligence Analytics
Business analytics tools and services vendor, Angel, recently produced a study that looks at the value of business…
Jaspersoft Enhances Business Intelligence Community Site
Business Intelligence (BI) software provider, Jaspersoft, has recently announced several enhancements to its open source community site, JasperForge.org.…
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Software For Microsoft Excel
Software review: When it comes to business applications for data mining and predictive analytics, one thing is certain:…
Salford Launches Predictive Modeling Software Suite
Data mining and predictive analytics software provider, Salford Systems, has announced its new Salford Predictive Modeling (SPM) software…
Speech Analytics and Business Intelligence Software
Customer Relationship Metrics has announced that it has added a free Speech Analytics Software component, for qualified candidates,…
Would Business Intelligence by Another Name Be Better?
I must confess, I get tired of all the effort put into trying to define nebulous IT terms like…
HP Shows Continued Commitment to Business Intelligence
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has denied a report that it is backing away from business intelligence and its Neoview data…
QlikView Offers Free Business Intelligence Personal Edition
QlikTech, (NASDAQ:QLIK) has recently announced momentum and popularity of its QlikView Personal Edition. As reported by the company…
Business Intelligence and the Enterprise IT Evolution
There is a new enterprise IT architecture that emerges from a reevaluation of modern business intelligence (BI) needs…
The Self-Service Business Intelligence Trend
According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, 67% of “best in class” companies and 21% of all businesses…
IBM Puts Focus on Business Intelligence Acquisitions
IBM is putting a focus on acquisitions of business intelligence software providers as customers turn to analytics to…
The Top 10 Trends in ERP
A decade ago, enterprise resource planning (ERP) was the panacea for all enterprise ills (remember Y2K?). There were…
BMC Software Improves Business Analytics
BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC) has announced that its popular BMC Control-M workload automation solution has new capabilities for Informatica…
How to Make Mobile Business Intelligence Work Now
The typical user’s idea of mobile business intelligence is that of a cellphone performing analytics (reports, dashboards, ad-hoc…
Google Partners with Citrix
This week, Google showed off the first notebooks running Chrome OS. While notebooks running Google’s operating system won’t…
SAP Introduces Business Analytics Site
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has recently announced the availability of “Business Analytics at SAP EcoHub,” a site that the…
Netvibes Announces New Business Intelligence Dashboard Solution
Netvibes has recently introduced a new Dashboard Intelligence solution that he company claims to be an effective way…
SAS CEO Comments on Social Networks
SAS allows companies to track customer opinion with its Social Media Analytics package and the company will soon…
Business Intelligence (BI) Choices and Standardization
Business Intelligence has gotten bigger, with everyone from executives to casual users having an opinion on the company’s…
IBM Predictive Analytics Available Across Global Technology Services
IBM (IBM) has announced that powerful new predictive analytical capabilities, constructed using intellectual property from 21 inventions, have…
Cookie Cutter Approach to BI Won’t Cut It
I interviewed Cindi Howson, founder of the BI Scorecard and author of “Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer…
QuantiSense Unveils iPad-Enabled Business Intelligence App
QuantiSense announced the latest release of its Retail Analytics and Business Intelligence software, which includes dashboards designed especially…
IBM Adds Predictive Analytics to Global Services Portfolio
IBM is adding new data analytics tools to its global services portfolio to aid CIOs in the observation and…
Tableau Software Removes WikiLeaks Data Visualizations
Last week, business intelligence and analytics software vendor Tableau Software removed data visualizations published by WikiLeaks to Tableau…
HP Business Intelligence Software Acquisition Possibilities
HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) software acquisition strategy will focus on BI (business intelligence), one of the industry’s hotter sectors…
SAS CEO Named in InternetNews.com CEO Vision Awards
This year’s set of CEO Vision Awards go to an interesting mix of executives from across the technology…
DSPanel Releases Business Intelligence on the iPad
DSPanel has recently announced the latest addition to its Performance Canvas mobile analytics product group, an Apple iPad…
IDC Launches Business Intelligence Tools Tracker
International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced the launch of the industry’s first global tracker covering the business intelligence…
Nine Business Analytics Predictions for 2011
The International Institute for Analytics this week released nine predictions for business analytics in 2011 — including a…
SAP Speeds Up Business Intelligence with In-Memory Analytics
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has begun shipping its High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) software, and the first application is based…
QuantiSense Announces iPad Compatible BI and Retail Analytics Application
Business intelligence and retail analytics vendor QuantiSense announced the release of QuantiSense 4.7.2, a BI and retail analytics…
A Little Forethought Makes a Lot of Difference in Business Intelligence Projects
With all of the advances in business intelligence and data analysis, a significant number of business decisions aren’t…
PMML Makes Predictive Analytics and Data Mining Easier
Predictive analytics — the art of mining and analyzing historical data patterns to predict the future — is…
Business Intelligence Drives Demand for IT Jobs
The demand for Business intelligence, service management skills and the increased use of external providers in the NHS…
Open Source Business Intelligence: What Are Your Options?
Open source business intelligence has been gaining momentum in recent years, so much so that it is even…
Data Mining Could Help Insurers Predict Longevity
Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health but data-gathering companies have such extensive…
SAS Sees Risks and Growth Potential in Asia
Today SAS has more than 11,000 employees and operates in 100 countries on projects that range from assessing…