Amazon is one of the world’s biggest e-commerce platforms, making it easier for sellers or marketers to connect with potential buyers anywhere in the world securely and conveniently. But this same convenience makes it a very competitive space, and it…
Trade shows are increasingly proving a valuable platform for companies to showcase products and services, connect with potential customers, and stay up to date on industry trends. Participating in specialized events like the construction materials and building solutions fair can…
MacBooks come with numerous tools provided by macOS. The operating system interacts with your device’s hardware to allocate the resources necessary to run applications. It also provides your device with memory, processing power, and file storage. One of the essential…
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, the significance of creating impactful brand content cannot be overstated. While the idea of crafting such content might initially seem daunting, it’s important to recognize that you don’t need a bottomless budget to…
Many users of social media in the past, such as in 2015, were curious as to what it meant when misspelled words – i.e. more than one word merged – were preceded by a numerical sign. Since then, using hashtags…
India has banned 54 Chinese applications that pose a threat to security in the country the ministry of information technology and electronics announced today. “These 54 apps are said to have different critical permissions and gather sensitive data from users.…
The Pixel 6 series is now eligible to join the Android Beta Program. This makes it the ideal time for Google’s third Android 12L beta. You should be able to see the update over-the-air if you have a Pixel 3a…
As companies add channels, services and stakeholders, it becomes increasingly difficult to get an accurate view of their costs. SAP yesterday rolled out an analytics application called Net Margin Analysis that it says employs advanced analytics to capture cost-to-serve metrics…
Microsoft announced a set of tools and services built around the Azure platform that will allow researchers to analyze extremely large data sets. The initiative, called Project Daytona, is part of the eXtreme Computing Group’s Cloud Research Engagement Initiative. Daytona…
California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), which manages about 85 percent of California’s power load, has incorporated Space-Time Insight’s geospatial software applications into its control center. The location-based solution combines real-time geospatial data with Google Maps that gives ISO’s employees…
Amazon led the latest round of funding for analytic database vendor ParAccel. Figures were not disclosed, but Amazon was joined by Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank in ParAccel’s…
Earlier this week, SugarCRM announced it has acquired iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises for an undisclosed sum, reports eCRMGuide.com. Built from the ground up on IBM Lotus collaborative technologies, iExtensions CRM will add enhanced support for IBM collaboration tools inside Sugar 6. Sugar…
Lawson Software introduced Lawson Analytics for Healthcare, a new analytic solution that purports to deliver a simple way to connect staffing, clinical and financial information for better decision making, says InformationWeek. Scheduled for availability in May 2011, Lawson Analytics for…
Infor announced Infor Workspace, a consumer-grade user interface built on Microsoft SharePoint that’s designed to provide a better user experience by blending a common user interface, in-context collaboration and business intelligence. Soma Somasundaram, senior vice president, Global Product Development, Infor,…
Why the Hoopla over Hadoop? Hadoop in nine easy to understand facts. The Guardian awarded Apache Hadoop with its “Innovator of the Year” award as part of the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards in London. Described as the “Swiss Army Knife of…
SAP announced last week that it has integrated its in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) with IBM’s DB2 database, PCWorld reports. The companies also released benchmark figures from a 1.3 terabyte test in which SAP’s in-memory technology was packaged with an…
A partnership between MeLLmo, developer of Roambi, a business application for mobile analytics, and business analytics software provider SAS will integrate Roambi with the SAS Enterprise BI Server, enabling users with access to SAS business intelligence data on iPads and…
Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website that has amassed 35 million registered users, has been tapped by a Rolling Meadowns, Ill.-based information technology consulting firm. Ajilitee, which specializes in analytics and cloud computing, launched a deal on Groupon that offers buyers $25,000…
HP has agreed to buy Vertica, a database management and analytics software firm, for an undisclosed sum, reports Dan Berthiaume over at CTO Edge. HP expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, according…
Samsung and SAP are partnering to bring mobile business intelligence to Android devices. The joint development leverages SAP’s Business Objects software to enable the Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence Dashboard to offer easy access to BI reports to mobile workers. Samsung…
Later this month, at an event in New York, SAP will launch Business Objects 4.0, its biggest BI (business intelligence) release in roughly three years, according to PCWorld. The release promises tighter integration of SAP’s BI business tools with its EIM…
Last week at its annual user conference in Las Vegas, MicroStrategy announced Transaction Services, a new product that allows business intelligence users to connect their mobile devices to back-end transactional systems and databases. The platform, which is compatible with the…
Oracle has expanded its CRM On Demand offering to European customers. This move was made possible after the company launched a data center in the UK. Having the facility inside the European Union enables European enterprise users in financial and…
The data center doesn’t have a monopoly on green IT, according to Computerworld. Business intelligence is emerging as a tool in which businesses can keep track of their progress toward reaching environmental goals. As more businesses gather sustainability-related data across…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online has been released to customers after having been in a four-month beta that involved more than 11,500 customers and 2,000 partners. The CRM offering is first being released as a hosted service through Microsoft with an…
Jaspersoft introduced Jaspersoft 4, the latest version of its open source business intelligence software. Built on open Web standards, Jaspersoft 4 can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud on a multi-tenant SaaS environment, according to V3.co.uk. The new consumer…
Oracle has further encroached upon SAP’s turf with the introduction of Oracle Financial Analytics for SAP, a new business intelligence application that can crunch ERP system financial data for insights, reports PCWorld. Regarding Oracle’s latest BI app, Paul Rodwick, vice…
New data from Forrester Research indicates that the enterprise business intelligence market is maturing. The firm’s “BI Maturity in the Enterprise: 2010 Update” found that fewer organizations are centralizing BI, with 43 percent employing agile BI and BI self-service, 38…
Teradata has agreed to purchase Aprimo for $525 million. The privately held Indianapolis-based company provides enterprise software that is used to analyze data for the purpose of mapping out advertising and marketing efforts. Teradata plans to combine Aprimo’s technology with…
This week, Google showed off the first notebooks running Chrome OS. While notebooks running Google’s operating system won’t be available commercially until next year, Google already landed major support from Citrix Systems. Next year, when notebooks running Chrome OS launch,…
IBM is adding new data analytics tools to its global services portfolio to aid CIOs in the observation and management of their IT infrastructures. The new tools were constructed using the intellectual property of 21 inventions. The move will equip CIOs…
Business intelligence and retail analytics vendor QuantiSense announced the release of QuantiSense 4.7.2, a BI and retail analytics offering that is compatible with Apple’s iPad, Business Wire reports. According to QuantiSense, its software, which includes iPad-compatible corporate dashboards, give retail…
12 Hot New Tablets Hitting the Market While mobile business intelligence offerings from vendors like TIBCO Software and Yellowfin have our Mike Vizard saying Apple’s iPad will alter BI, his colleague Carl Weinschenk is of the belief that corporate dominance…
Pentaho announced the availability of its Pentaho Enterprise Data Services Suite, a data integration platform that can collect and manage data from multiple sources for use with business intelligence tools. The suite features 150 mapping objects and provides comprehensive integration…
Yellowfin’s latest business intelligence application for the iPad and iPhone is now available at Apple’s App Store. The app gives users full access to Yellowfin’s reporting and analytics solution and the ability to remotely access the company’s real-time reporting capabilities,…
Tableau Software has just released the latest version of its flagship business intelligence product, Tableau 6. The new iteration has some major improvements. At the top of the list of advances is speed, according to eCRMguide.com. According to the company,…
A growing number of retailers are turning to temporary stores to cash in during the holiday season. With retail vacancies at about 13 percent nationally, mall owners are increasingly willing to rent so-called pop-up stores for cheap or even for…
U.S. Bank announced that it has rolled out an application called ScoreBoard that enables its more than 110,000 small-business clients to generate reports about their credit cards, merchant processing accounts and other electronic payment vehicles through a secure Web-based dashboard,…
Five Considerations when Deploying iPad in Your Business Factors to consider before deploying the iPad. Mike Vizard’s argument that Apple’s iPad will alter business intelligence got another boost. TIBCO Software announced that its latest Spotfire Web Player update offers a…
At Informatica World 2010, Informatica and Cloudera announced that the two companies are partnering to provide customers with the solutions needed to address the challenges associated with managing large-scale data, including structured, complex and social data. To accomplish this, Informatica…
According to a new mobile business intelligence study by analyst Howard Dresner, nearly 90 percent of responding companies think mobile BI is important. Dresner noted that mobile devices and tablets, specifically the iPad, are not only making mobile BI possible,…
In an increasively competitive business intelligence marketplace, business analytics software and services vendor SAS is distinguishing itself and expanding its customer base, says Local Tech Wire. Earlier this month, SAS CEO and co-founder Jim Goodnight disclosed that sales were up 5…
IBM has made several key acquisitions this year, many of which were aimed at expanding Big Blue’s analytics business. Today, IBM launched Cognos 10, the latest play by the company to be a major contender in the wide-open business intelligence…