Business Intelligence: May 2011
Oracle Offers Prebuilt Analytics App for Retail Merchandizing
May 31, 2011Oracle unveils a new analytics application for retail performance metrics.
Progress Software and Joe Isuzu: Process Intelligence, Not Business Agility
May 30, 2011Progress Software promises to improve business processes, but can the company also improve business agility?
Oracle Gets Actionable with Retail Analytics
May 25, 2011Lots of organizations want business intelligence to be not just about collecting data and creating reports, but about directly facilitating operational improvements.
IBM Taps Hadoop for Social Media Analytics, Funds 'Big Data' Research
May 23, 2011IBM announces new software capabilities to analyze massive volumes of streaming data and commits $100 million to massive scale analytics research.
eCRM Guide Becomes Enterprise Apps Today
May 20, 2011eCRM Guide is getting a redesign and a new name - along with expanded coverage of enterprise applications like CRM, ERP and business intelligence.
SAS Speeds Text Analytics and Information Discovery with Taxonomy Kits
May 20, 2011The new SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits improve the speed to value from text analytics and unstructured data.
SAP Unveils Performance Management, ERP and Mobile Apps
May 18, 2011It was all about real-time, mobile applications at this week's SAP Sapphire Now conference.
Analytics Can Change Health Care: Study
May 17, 2011An International Institute for Analytics (IIA) research study finds that analytics is critical in the health care and life sciences industries.
Accountability Is Key to Data Governance
May 17, 2011As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by the MIT Sloan School of Management's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, there's a growing awareness that companies can derive real value from data.
EMC Unveils Hadoop Appliance for Big Data Analytics
May 13, 2011EMC's Greenplum HD Data Computing Appliance supports the Apache Hadoop open source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data analytics.
'Big Data' Offers Big Challenges - And Big Rewards
May 13, 2011As all sorts of data becomes available for storage, analysis, and retrieval — so called "big data" — there are potentially huge benefits, but equally huge challenges.
Data-driven Decisions a Best Practice, but Still Not Mainstream
May 13, 2011Technology itself provides few game-changing benefits. It's all in how organizations apply technology to improve their business processes. Business intelligence is a case in point.
Business Intelligence Must Mesh with Your Business to Work
May 12, 2011Business intelligence solutions must be easy to use and fit into the way your employees work if your BI system is going to be a success.
YouTube Founders Acquire Tap11 for Social Business Intelligence
May 10, 2011The Tap11 business intelligence platform will boost AVOS in the enterprise social tools market.
Information Builders and Teradata Combine Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
May 9, 2011The new Rapid Warehousing solution combines data integration, Teradata Data warehouse appliances and business intelligence software.
IBM Strengthens Online Marketing with Coremetrics Analytics Software
May 6, 2011New cloud analytics software helps IBM customers create smarter marketing strategies.
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Reveals Changing, Growing BI Market
May 6, 2011Business intelligence trends include data discovery and dashboard growth, soaring BI revenue and bullish forecasts, and emerging companies challenging the top tier vendors.
Microsoft Opens up Its Business Intelligence
May 6, 2011Remember when Microsoft had a reputation as an "anti-open" software company that zealously guarded its proprietary code?
Microsoft BI Labs Takes Grassroots Approach to Business Intelligence
May 5, 2011The new Microsoft BI Labs portal offers experimental business intelligence projects and applications.
Oracle Adds Mobile Business Intelligence to iPad, iPhone
May 3, 2011Oracle has unveiled a number of new features for its business intelligence software, including a new mobile BI application for the iPad and iPhone.
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