Pentaho 4 Improves User-Driven Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) software is all about deriving value from data. It’s a goal that commercial open source…
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Oracle Acquires FatWire for Web Experience Management
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has entered into an agreement to acquire web experience management (WEM) company FatWire Software. FatWire…
SAP Releases HANA In-Memory Analytics, Refreshes Business One ERP
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced the general availability of its HANA in-memory analytics appliance software. The release, according…
BI Should Be BMOC — Big Major on Campus — in College
Last spring I wrote about the need to beef up business intelligence in college curriculums, citing my interview…
HP Vertica 5.0 Accelerates Big Data Analytics
HP (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Vertica earlier this year to tap the fast-growing market for big data analytics and…
Pronto Combines ERP and Business Intelligence
Pronto Software has unveiled Pronto-Xi Dimensions, a new “smart” ERP solution that brings together enterprise resource planning (ERP)…
Oracle Exadata Certified for SAP Applications
Oracle Exadata Database Machines are now certified for SAP applications. With the new Oracle Exadata certification, all SAP…
SAS Fraud Management Boosts Detection and Prevention
Business analytics leader SAS has announced the latest version of SAS Fraud Management. According to the company, the…
SAP Unveils Business Intelligence Software for Small Businesses
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a pair of business intelligence (BI) offerings for small businesses, Crystal Server 2011…
CIOs Invest in Business Analytics to Tackle Big Data: IBM Study
According to a recent IBM (NYSE: IBM) global study of CIOs, the top strategic technology investment over the…
NetSuite Adds Demand Planning Features to ERP
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite (NYSE: N) has extended its cloud-based business management suite with new demand planning features…
Oracle Targets Global Markets with Latest Oracle Insurance Release
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.5, the newest version…
Pegasystems Adds Analytics to BPM
Business process management (BPM) software provider Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA) has unveiled the latest version of Pega BPM, which…
Informatica Overhauls Data Integration Platform for Big Data and Social Media
Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) says it has unleashed the business potential of “big data” by offering support for social…
Shared BI Responsibility Leads to Success
I love a story about a successful deployment of business intelligence. (Who doesn’t?) So I enjoyed reading about Station Casinos’…
VMware Acquires Socialcast for Collaboration
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has announced that enterprise social collaboration solutions provider Socialcast is joining the recent acquisitions of…
Salesforce.com Unveils ‘Social Enterprise’ Vision Based on Radian6
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today unveiled its vision for “social enterprises,” and recently acquired Radian6 is at the heart…
Oracle Offers Prebuilt Analytics App for Retail Merchandizing
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has expanded its business intelligence portfolio with the release of a new analytics application for…
BonitaSoft Open Source BPM 5.5 Adds Social and Collaboration Features
Open source business process management (BPM) provider BonitaSoft has announced some significant upgrades for its new version 5.5…
Salesforce, Toyota Build Social Network for Car Owners
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Toyota Motor Corp. have announced plans to build Toyota Friend, a private social network…
AuraPortal Adds BPM to Marketing, CRM
Enhancing functionality of its business process management (BPM) suite, AuraPortal has announced a new Marketing Campaigns (MC) module…
Oracle Gets Actionable with Retail Analytics
Lots of organizations want business intelligence to be not just about collecting data and creating reports, but about…
Terracotta In-Memory Technology to Fuel Software AG Cloud Computing Offerings
Software AG will acquire Terracotta, which offers some of the most widely-used software for application scalability, availability and…
IBM Taps Hadoop for Social Media Analytics, Funds ‘Big Data’ Research
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled news software and services to address “Big Data” challenges like mining massive amounts…
eCRM Guide Becomes Enterprise Apps Today
eCRM Guide, your source for news on CRM (customer relationship management) since 2000, will soon become Enterprise Apps…
SAS Speeds Text Analytics and Information Discovery with Taxonomy Kits
Business analytics leader SAS has announced new pre-built Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits for SAS Enterprise Content Categorization.…
Openbravo Offers Point-of-Sale (POS) Module for Open Source ERP
Openbravo has announced a new commercial offering that extends its web-based open source ERP solution. The new POS…
SAP Unveils Performance Management, ERP and Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) had a host of product and partnership announcements at its Sapphire Now user conference this…
Yammer Adds Social Layer to CRM, HR and Supply Chain Apps
Enterprise social networking provider Yammer has unveiled a number of new integration products that add a “social layer”…
Red Hat, SAP Partner in Joint Support Deal
Red Hat and SAP are teaming up with new integrated support for SAP customers running Red Hat Enterprise…
Accountability Is Key to Data Governance
As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee and…
SAP, Oracle Lead Supply Chain Management Software Market
The worldwide supply chain management software market rebounded strongly last year, according to research and advisory company Gartner…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Updates Coming More Frequently
Microsoft released a new roadmap for its customer relationship management (CRM) products this week that will ultimately lead…
EMC Unveils Hadoop Appliance for Big Data Analytics
EMC (NYSE: EMC) says the company has a new strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop…
Data-driven Decisions a Best Practice, but Still Not Mainstream
In 2003 Nicholas Carr created a stir among tech professionals by writing a Harvard Business Review article, titled…
NetSuite Says Cloud ERP Is Ready for Enterprises
Looking to establish itself as a market leader in cloud ERP solutions for enterprises, NetSuite (NYSE: N) this…
YouTube Founders Acquire Tap11 for Social Business Intelligence
AVOS, a new Internet company led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Tap11.com, a…
Information Builders and Teradata Combine Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
Business intelligence (BI) solution provider Information Builders has partnered with Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to offer a new data…
IBM Strengthens Online Marketing with Coremetrics Analytics Software
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched new cloud-based analytics software, Coremetrics Lifecycle, that Big Blue says will help boost…
Microsoft Opens up Its Business Intelligence
Remember when Microsoft had a reputation as an “anti-open” software company that zealously guarded its proprietary code? Things have…
Enterprise Software Sales Grew 8.5 Percent in 2010
The enterprise software market grew by a surprising 8.5 percent worldwide in 2010, at least partly based on…
Microsoft BI Labs Takes Grassroots Approach to Business Intelligence
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is taking a grassroots approach to business intelligence (BI) technology with the quiet launch of…
SAP Rolls StreamWork Collaboration into CRM, ERP
SAP (NYSE: SAP) is going social. The company has announced it is extending enterprise social networking and collaboration…
Oracle Adds Mobile Business Intelligence to iPad, iPhone
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today unveiled a number of new features for its business intelligence software, including a new…
Salesforce Closes Radian6 Acquisition, Combines Social Media and CRM
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has completed its acquisition of social CRM vendor Radian6. Salesforce said Radian6’s social media monitoring…
Magnet Gets Funding from Andreessen Horowitz for Enterprise Social Networking
The mission is clear: to take enterprise productivity to new heights. That’s the statement posted on the Magnet…
Microsoft Demos PowerPivot Business Intelligence with Calendar Analytics
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is offering a free Calendar Analytics application to demonstrate the power of its PowerPivot business…
Why Half of Business Intelligence Users Are Dissatisfied
Business Intelligence spending may be on the rise, but not everyone is happy with their purchase, if a…
BI Getting More Social
I’ve long thought that business intelligence and social technologies were made for each other. Last January I wrote about…
Oracle Sees HR Software, CRM Catching On In the Cloud as Fusion Apps Launch
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has begun rolling out its long-awaited Fusion Applications, with more than 100 modules spanning financials,…