Business Intelligence: April 2011
Microsoft Demos PowerPivot Business Intelligence with Calendar Analytics
April 29, 2011The Microsoft Business Intelligence team is offering a free download of Calendar Analytics, a new PowerPivot time management application.
Why Half of Business Intelligence Users Are Dissatisfied
April 28, 2011A new survey indicates that users blame a lack of IT resources for business intelligence woes.
BI Getting More Social
April 28, 2011I've long thought that business intelligence and social technologies were made for each other. Last January I wrote about BI and mashups, noting mashups not only make it easier for users to work with disparate data but also to share their insights with coworkers.
SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Lead Business Intelligence Market
April 21, 2011Strategic business intelligence projects returned in 2010, sending the BI market past the $10 billion mark.
Gartner: BI Spending Grows 13.4 Percent in 2010
April 21, 2011It seems companies turn to business intelligence to give them a competitive edge in a still-shaky economy. Enough of them did it last year to drive a healthy increase in BI spending.
MicroStrategy Business Intelligence 9.2 Offers Visual Insight
April 20, 2011New features help business users explore data from across the enterprise to quickly find answers to business questions without the need for IT assistance.
Panorama Social Business Intelligence Platform Puts Focus on Relevancy
April 19, 2011The Necto Business Intelligence (BI) platform introduces the concept of true relevancy.
MicroStrategy Software Update Promotes Insight-as-a-Service
April 19, 2011I think the whole "as a service" phrase has jumped the shark as I was quick to tell a Verizon representative who recently walked me through the company's unified communications-as-a-service offering. "Nice solution, but change the name. The whole 'as-a-service' thing is over," I told him.
QlikTech Sees Mobile Business Intelligence Moving to HTML5 Browsers
April 15, 2011Mobile business intelligence has evolved from browser-based clients to native apps — and back.
Heritage Announces $3 Million Healthcare Analytics Contest
April 14, 2011The Heritage Health Prize will award the most accurate predictive algorithm for reducing healthcare costs and improving care.
SAS, EMC Team Up for High-Performance Analytics
April 13, 2011The two companies will use the EMC Greenplum Appliance to analyze large amounts of data.
Edmunds Deploys MicroStrategy Market Analysis iPad App
April 11, 2011The new iPad app is built on the MicroStrategy Mobile platform.
SAP Unveils Rapid Deployment Applications for Quick Gains
April 11, 2011Easily deployed offerings in CRM, ERP, business intelligence, supply chain and other areas give businesses software and predefined services at a set price.
What Agile Business Intelligence Really Means
April 7, 2011Agile business intelligence isn't a one-time upgrade, but a continual process.
InsideView Sales Intelligence Will Be Preloaded in SugarCRM
April 7, 2011SugarCRM users can access InsideView for Social Selling.
Actuate Turns Unstructured Data into Business Intelligence
April 6, 2011Actuate claims to be the first to use unstructured data sources in business intelligence systems.
Alteryx Secures $6M Funding From SAP Ventures
April 6, 2011The investment will fuel growth of agile and geo-spatial business intelligence (BI) Software.
EMC Expands Greenplum Big Data Analytics
April 6, 2011The company announced new appliances for archive layer analytics and accelerated data-loading for big data.
SugarCRM Acquires iExtensions CRM
April 6, 2011SugarCRM announced it has acquired iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises.
Lawson Introduces New Analytics Tools
April 5, 2011Lawson Software unveiled two new analytics tools designed to improve user experience.
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