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,…