Will Business Folks, IT Admins Like Windows 8 Apps?
New details about Windows 8, Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system, which some observers see as a huge bet for…
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Visualization Broadens Business Intelligence’s Appeal
It makes sense that interest in business intelligence visualization is increasing, given the highly visual nature of hot…
Gartner: CRM Emerges as a Big CIO Priority
Gartner released new data showing that the market enthusiasm surrounding customer relationship management (CRM) software and its burgeoning…
Whither Embedded Analytics?
With all the hype about Big Data analytics, a more down-in-the-details yet highly useful new application of analytics…
Where Big Money Is Investing in Big Data
Michael Baum, the co-founder and former CEO of Splunk, has made millions from Big Data. Splunk debuted last…
Are Small Businesses Ready for Big Data?
If you thought Big Data and the countless efforts to analyze it were strictly the concerns of large…
Cloud Plans Getting More Cohesive
In the early years of this decade, it seemed like most companies needed cloud computing like a fish…
Retooling App Stores for the Enterprise
Consumer-oriented application storefronts like The Google Play Store (the new name of the Android Market) and Apple’s App…
Business Intelligence Ain’t Over Until Exploratory Data Analysis Sings
Business intelligence has taken a step forward in maturity over the last few years, as statistical packages have…
Business Intelligence Is Booming, Gartner Finds
At this week’s Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles, a packed downtown JW Marriot hotel witnessed a mix…
Buyer’s Guide: Is Cloud ERP Right for You?
A growing number of vendors offer cloud ERP products. While major players like SAP are introducing cloud computing…
Eight Useful Contact Center Apps
Call centers have evolved way beyond a bunch of people fielding customer calls. Indeed, today’s “call center” customers…
Survey Shows Lack of Enthusiasm for Social Tools at Work
As a recent study by Adobe made clear, companies continue to wrestle with determining the value of their…
Big Data Pros Are Made, Not Born
Companies are understandably excited about Hadoop’s potential to help them derive business benefits from their swelling volumes of…
Review: Xobni for Outlook Makes CRM Intuitive, Fun
Finally, users can also make use of Xobni Cloud to synchronize their contact data with the free smartphone…
BPM + CRM Yields Great Results for Insurer
Gary Kirkham doesn’t need to wait for a question to start talking about Pegasystems’ work with Farmers Insurance…
Buyer’s Guide: Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Business intelligence (BI) vendors are involved in a headlong rush to provide their software in the cloud. The…
Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant: Do Business Intelligence Vendors Lack Vision?
The latest Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant (MQ) came out a few weeks ago. Comparing it to one…
How Big Vendors Are Approaching Big Data
From in-memory computing to columnar databases, a slew of technologies promise to help companies handle larger data sets …
Six Ways BPM Can Improve Supply Chain Management
As supply chains continue to expand and become more complex, organizations need better ways to manage their network…
Making a Business Intelligence Case for Columnar Databases
A couple of years ago, columnar databases were a hot topic in business intelligence circles; today, not so…
Why You Suck at Web Analytics
Many companies spend pots of money on analytics for their websites and social media channels. Yet too often…
Five Mistakes That Can Wreck Your BPM Project
Enterprise Apps Today recently published an article discussing why it makes sense to take a process-centric approach to…
Using Social Apps to Solve Business Problems
By Jeffrey M. Kaplan Many corporate executives, view today’s social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, with mixed emotions.…
Why Taking Process-centric Approach to CRM Makes Sense
Business process management (BPM) used to be strictly a back-office affair. That’s no longer true. As with many…
Demand for CRM Developers on the Rise
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the global CRM applications market for the first half of 2011 grew…
Big Data Not the Answer to Business Agility
The hype about agile business intelligence is getting out of hand. IT will probably suffer for it. A…
Big Data Buyer’s Guide, Part Two: IBM, SAS, Pentaho and More
In Part One of this series on Big Data solutions, we compared Oracle Exalytics and SAP HANA. But…
Companies Still Challenged by ERP Implementations
ERP is among the most dreaded of all enterprise software implementations. Its bad reputation is at least partly…
Eight Business-changing Ways to Use Big Data
In today’s data-rich enterprise, Hadoop gives enterprises a much-needed alternative to traditional relational databases. Hadoop is an open…
Getting Started with Workforce Analytics
In part one of Enterprise Apps Today’s two-part interview with Dr. Carl C. Hoffmann, CEO of Human Capital…
SAP, Oracle Face Off in Human Capital Management Showdown
One way to gauge the interest level in enterprise applications is to look at recent acquisitions. By that…
Review: QlikView 11 Connects Comparative Analysis With Social Business Intelligence
QlikView 11 Availability QlikTech has always focused on the concept that business intelligence should be user-driven, and QlikView…
Fine Tuning Your Workforce with Analytics
Workforce analytics is part of the red-hot human capital management market. In the past three months, SAP, Oracle…
In-Memory Analytics Buyer’s Guide: Oracle Big Data/Exalytics Appliances vs. SAP HANA
Big Data has become a super-heated area of the business intelligence (BI) landscape, with companies hoping to extract…
Five Mobile Business Intelligence Blunders You Won’t Want to Make
A recent Enterprise Apps Today article shared 11 Tips for Successful Mobile Business Intelligence, gleaned from interviews with…
Social Adds New Twist to Customer Service, Support
Remember when shopping meant driving to the nearest store and buying the product on the shelf? Consumers may…
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…
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…
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…
‘Epic’ Lawsuits Among ERP Predictions for 2012
In no particular order, here are Enterprise Apps Today’s top five ERP forecasts for 2012: Consolidation of ERP…
BPM Gets Out of the Back Office
EnterpriseAppsToday’s Ann All spoke with Stuart Chandler, vice president of the BPM Practice for Virtusa Corporation, an IT…
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…
12 Helpful Salesforce Apps for 2012
EnterpriseAppsToday.com asked CRM managers and Salesforce.com experts what their favorite Saleforce apps were. Then we narrowed down the…
Eight CRM Predictions for 2012
CRM had a good year in 2011 with its highest revenues in many years. So what does 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.…
Cloud Momentum Grows with SAP Bid for SuccessFactors
SAP’s recent announcement of its intent to purchase cloud-based human capital management (HCM) vendor SuccessFactors has prompted abundant…
Top Business Analytics Startups of 2011
Want to leverage the energy and innovation of a hot analytics startup but not quite sure where to…