Business Intelligence (BI), analytics, and data mining software and solutions. - Archive for January 2012

11 Tips for Successful Mobile Business Intelligence

Mobile is the hottest trend going today in business intelligence. Enterprise Apps Today asked a group of business intelligence experts to …

Contest Highlights R Language's Big Data Analysis Power

Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software, services and support for the open source R language, awarded $20,000 to contestants …

IBM Debuts Netezza Analytics Appliance Geared to Retail Industry

As part of its Smarter Commerce initiative, IBM has released the Netezza Customer Intelligence Appliance, a SQL-based enterprise data …

Enkata Updates Architecture for Big Data

The provider of cloud-based customer experience analytics and workforce optimization software is using Hadoop and other emerging …

Business Analyst, IT Must Be Buddies for Effective Business Intelligence

Business analysts and IT programmers should be friends, or at least effective collaborators. They are carrying out separate agile processes, …

Arcplan Updates Collaborative Business Intelligence Software

Version 2.0 of the Engage solution for collaborative business intelligence is integrated with arcplan Spotlight, a self-service tool that …

Are There Enough Data Scientists to Go Around?

A recent EMC survey highlights a shortage of data science skills – a problem likely to get even worse in the near-term future.

SAP Reports Best Financials in 40-Year History

In its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, SAP beat analyst expectations for revenue and profit to deliver its best ever …

Birst Wants to Democratize Big Data

Partnership with ParAccel brings Big Data within financial reach of smaller companies.

Seven Business Intelligence Predictions for 2012

From Big Data to the cloud, what will shape the business intelligence market in 2012.

Hadoop Secures 1.0 Release

Big Data gets a big release, providing improved security and full support for HBase.