Business Intelligence (BI), analytics, and data mining software and solutions. - Archive for December 2011

Rethinking Business Intelligence for Marketing: Strategy, Technology, Metrics

A recent IBM study highlights the shifting challenges for chief marketing officers and the potential for business intelligence.

IBM Buys Supply Chain Analytics Firm Emptoris

The acquisition of cloud and on-premise supply chain analytics specialist Emptoris is the latest in a raft of acquisitions by Big Blue to …

Top Business Analytics Startups of 2011

As 2011 draws to a close, EnterpriseAppsToday takes a quick look at some of these companies and shows how their apps dovetail with key …

Birst Aims for Analytics Sweet Spot with In-Memory Database

Vendor says in-memory database offers data analysis capabilities of more costly enterprise solutions in a smaller and more affordable …

SAP Makes Social Analysis Play with NetBase Agreement

SAP is selling NetBase’s social media analytics software and examining opportunities to integrate it with SAP applications, including …

IBM Snaps Up DemandTec for Cloud-Based Commerce Analytics

IBM will acquire DemandTec in a $440 million cash transaction to add its cloud-based analytics software to the IBM Smarter Commerce …

JasperSoft Advances Business Intelligence for Big Data

Open source business intelligence vendor takes a different approach to analyzing Hadoop.

JackBe Makes Business Intelligence Self-Service

The company says its business intelligence software is built for front-line managers.