IBM Snaps Up Unica for Marketing Analytics
IBM today said it plans to buy Unica (NASDAQ: UNCA), a provider of interactive marketing analytics, in a…
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Predictive Analytics in the Enterprise
According to this report on CIO, enterprises must think about balancing optimization and be willing to accept the…
Business Intelligence Software: What Are Your Options?
The business intelligence software market has been growing even in a down economy, as enterprises hope that smarter…
Innography, Willis Partner for Business Intelligence
Willis Group Holdings has announced it is partnering with Innography to launch Willis PatentWize, an enterprise-wide business intelligence…
Open Source Business Intelligence Software Ranked by Analysts
A Forrester Research report on open source business intelligence software released yesterday gave high marks to Actuate’s (NASDAQ:…
Sybase Speeds Up Business Intelligence Performance
Sybase is speeding up business intelligence (BI) and analytics with the latest version of Sybase Replication Server. The…
Elixir and Netezza Announce High-Velocity Business Analytics
Elixir Technology and Netezza Corporation have announced a new technology partner agreement. Jointly, the two companies plan to…
Use of Mobile Business Intelligence Apps Expected to Grow
According to this Computer World report, delivering business intelligence applications to your employee’s mobile devices can boost customer…
Rapid Insight Upgrades its Business Intelligence Software
Rapid Insight has announced a major upgrade to its business intelligence software product, Veera has been released. According…
Monetize CRM Information with Data Analytics
Data analytics, has the ability to build revenue, improve workflow efficiency, increase cash flows and enhance customer satisfaction.…
Business Intelligence Goes Open Source
According to this Express Computer report, The concept of Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) is slowly emerging as…
SAS Boosts Security Intelligence Analytics
With its recent acquisition of UK-based software firm Memex, this Engineering News report says that SAS has strengthened…
Mobile BI Review: MicroStrategy Puts Business Intelligence on Your iPhone
Growing demand for mobile access to business intelligence (BI) has not been lost on vendors. For the most…
Solariat Offers New Conversational Analysis and Marketing Tool
Conversational analysis and marketing company, Solariat, has announced AdLib, a product that the company describes as a marketing…
Social Media Changes Business Intelligence
According to this SmartData Collective report on social business intelligence, BI and the systems and firms that collect…
Hyundai Selects FICO Transaction Analytics
FICO has announced that Hyundai Card Co., Ltd., is implementing FICO Transaction Scores to strengthen its risk management…
CRM and Business Intelligence Get Smarter with Analytics
Business analytics used to be a very geeky endeavor practiced by hard-core IT people skilled in the arcane…
In-Memory Computing Boosts Analytical Software Use
The use of analytical software to make better business decisions appears to be on the rise, with the…
Meeting the Demand for Skilled Analytics People
According to this IT Business Edge story, the limiting factor is a current general lack of professionals skilled…
Insight into Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform
The goal of this Datamation video interview with Michael Tejedor, Senior Product Manager, Business Platform Division at Microsoft…
Revolution Analytics Introduces Big Data Analysis
Revolution Analytics has announced ‘Big Data’ analysis to its Revolution R Enterprise software, taking the popular R statistics…
SearchRidge Launches BIaaS: Business Intelligence as a Service
SearchRidge has announced the launch of its Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) model, addressing the key challenge…
MicroStrategy Beats the Street, But Stock Falls
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) posted better than expected quarterly results last night, but shares of the business intelligence software…
Pitney Bowes Business Insight Releases Crime Profiler
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has released MapInfo Crime Profiler, a solution for real-time identification and analysis of crime…
SAS Upgrades its Analytics Products
Analytics software and services provider, SAS, has recently announced upgrades to three SAS Analytics products. As noted in…
Stream Announces xStream Interactions Platform
Stream Global Services, Inc. has recently announced xStream Interactions, its technology strategy and platform that is designed specifically…
The Business Intelligence Certification Debate
Do certifications have real, practical importance or are they primarily symbolic? This is the question posed in a…
Google Takes an Interest in Analytics, CRM
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) continues to move well beyond its origins as a search engine and more and more…
Nuance Releases On-Demand Analytics and Reporting Tool
Nuance Communications has announced a new release of On Demand Insight, a web-based interactive voice response (IVR) analytics…
Mobile Business Intelligence in the Oilfields
WellPoint Systems has announced that its Mobile Intelligent Dashboard for the iPhone/iPad is providing mobile Business Intelligence (BI)…
LiveVox Upgrades Call Center Business Analytics Tools
LiveVox has announced upgrades to its business analytics suite that allow organizations to analyze and compare hour-by-hour changes…
Smarter Crop Management With IBM Analytics
IBM has recently announced that Bakersfield, Calif. based agribusiness Sun World International LLC is harnessing its analytics technology…
IBM Developing Analytics Products for Marketers
As reported by MediaPost News, IBM has been developing code that it will use to build a suite…
The Role of Web Analytics in Decision-Making
Economic Times has a new brief that discusses global branding and corporate marketing. The story shares an interesting…
Memphis Police Use Predictive Analytics to Reduce Crime Rates
According to this IBM news release on PR Newswire, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) has enhanced its crime…
A Look at Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Organizations that began with simpler modeling to deliver results are now moving to more sophisticated modeling — such…
BI Study: How to Determine Business Intelligence Readiness
Endeca Technologies has announced the availability of "Agile BI – Is it time to make the move?," a…
Panorama Highlights Less Complex BI Tools
This ZDNet blog quotes Eynav Azarya, CEO of Panorama and offers a discussion about business intelligence tools and…
Revolution Launches Inside-R Open Source Statistics Community
Revolution Analytics has announced the launch of the Inside-R.org community website, designed to be a comprehensive online resource…
Will the iPad Alter Business Intelligence?
According to this IT Business Edge report chances are pretty high that the iPad will change the way…
Video: Leveraging Analytics with Business Intelligence
Reliable Planet is offering the first of an 11-part video series that presents a model for understanding and…
Birst Announces Concurrent User Pricing for BI Software
Birst has just announced concurrent user pricing as an alternative to the standard ‘named user pricing.’ With concurrent…
Impact 360 Speech Analytics Optimizes Contact Center Operations
Verint Systems has announced that that Telefónica O2 Ireland has implemented its Impact 360 Advanced Speech Analytics solution…
Aggregate Unveils Audience Management and Discovery Platform
Aggregate Knowledge has recently announced its AK Discovery Platform, which according to the company, provides the foundational audience…
Tough Times are Good Times for Analytics
The Financial Post has an interview with Jim Goodnight the founder and chief executive of SAS Institute. In…
Business Intelligence Everywhere
Manoj Prasad, vice president of enterprise architecture, global applications and testing at Life Technologies Corp., says the company…
Taleo Offers Talent Intelligence
Taleo has announced ‘Talent Intelligence’ adding analytics to standard talent management. According to this report on ere.net, the…
Supplementing Business Intelligence with Business Analytics
Business intelligence (BI) covers a range of capabilities and tools from simple spreadsheet reports to sophisticated predictive analytical…
Qlik IPO Shows How Hot Business Intelligence Is
The IPO of Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ: QLIK) today showed just how hot the business intelligence (BI) market is.…
SAS to Help Connecticut Report on Student Data
The Connecticut State Department of Education says it will use SAS to integrate, analyze and report on student…