Business Intelligence: March 2012
Host Analytics Intros Business Intelligence Tool for Finance Pros
March 30, 2012Provider of cloud-based corporate performance management software says the tool provides self-service reporting and dashboarding capabilities.
SAS Introduces Visual Analytics for Big Data
March 23, 2012In a demonstration of its new data exploration and visualization solution, SAS took pains to differentiate what it calls high-performance analytics from simple business intelligence.
Buyer's Guide: Business Intelligence in the Cloud
March 22, 2012While there is plenty of hype about business intelligence in the cloud, even vendors encourage companies to take a measured approach to deploying it.
IBM Launches Big Data Analytics for Business
March 20, 2012IBM’s new offerings highlight Big Data’s profit-boosting potential.
Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant: Do Business Intelligence Vendors Lack Vision?
March 20, 2012While Leaders and Niche Players abound in Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence, only two companies placed in the Challenger category and Gartner didn't name any vendors as Visionaries. What gives?
Pentaho Targets OEMs with Embedded Analytics
March 16, 2012Is business intelligence analytics a standalone technology? Sure, but it's also a great fit with other enterprise software too.
Zendesk Analytics Tool Helps Companies Understand 'Silent' Customers
March 15, 2012The provider of help desk software says its new analytics feature gives companies direct visibility into how customers use self-service content. This insight can help them optimize their self-service strategies.
Making a Business Intelligence Case for Columnar Databases
March 14, 2012Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates says columnar databases are making a comeback – and for good reason.
IBM's Watson Takes to Cloud for Big Data
March 13, 2012A year after schooling former Jeopardy! champs, Watson gears up for crunching Big Data on the cloud.
Symantec Fights Big Data Sprawl With Data Insight 3.0
March 13, 2012Symantec tackles the task of managing and protecting unstructured data by placing a premium on accountability.
SAP Performance Management, Meet HANA
March 13, 2012SAP says its BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application will be the first enterprise performance management app to support its HANA-powered NetWeaver Business Warehouse component.
Why You Suck at Web Analytics
March 12, 2012Many organizations make at least some of the 10 common web analytics mistakes outlined by analytics expert Adam Greco at a recent online marketing event. Luckily, he also mentioned some fixes for the mistakes.
SAS Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon
March 6, 2012SAS is now including Hadoop support in its Enterprise Data Integration Server, with SAS SVP Jim Davis saying SAS "helps enterprises pull value from Hadoop deployments using minimal resources."
MarkLogic Latest to Join Ranks of Hortonworks Hadoop Partners
March 1, 2012Partnership integrates MarkLogic’s operational database with Hortonworks' Hadoop-powered data platform.
Hortonworks, Microsoft Team for Hadoop-Excel Support
March 1, 2012Yahoo spin-off joins with Microsoft for tools that could potentially grow Hadoop's popularity by millions of users.
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