While a growing number of vendors are introducing in-memory solutions to help companies get more bang for their business intelligence bucks, Birst co-founder and CEO Brad Peters said not enough of them are offering options that strike the right balance…
With both Oracle and Salesforce.com making moves into social media analytics with recent acquisitions, it’s not surprising to see SAP make a move of its own. The ERP and CRM giant today announced it will resell solutions from NetBase, a…
How aggressively are organizations currently investing in ERP solutions and what are the risks and rewards? Computer Economics just published a study in which it examines the three-year trend in ERP adoption and investment. In this interview, Computer Economics President…
Oracle’s OpenWorld event was a coming-out party for the ERP and CRM giant’s Fusion platform, which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison touted as supporting “a complete integrated suite of ERP, Human Capital Management, CRM, Supply Chain Management and many other applications.”…
Social and mobile are two enterprise software trends that often get mentioned in the same breath – and for good reason. After all, many people interact with social applications primarily via their mobile devices. So it’s not surprising that major…
In a recent Enterprise Apps Today interview, Dresner Advisory Services founder and president Howard Dresners said cloud computing, mobile technologies, and collaborative capabilities are combining to become a kind of super trend, because the three things complement each other so well.…
Though early efforts at mobile business intelligence faltered, the trend has taken off in the last year. Dresner Advisory Services just published its third report on the topic since mid-2010. Ann All discussed the findings of the report with the…
There has been lots of buzz about mobile business intelligence, but actual adoption numbers have remained low. The 10th edition of the BI Survey, an annual research report produced by the Business Application Research Center that examines why customers buy…
Back in July, I wrote a post suggesting CIOs could provide business value by working with human resources professionals. HR is a largely untapped opportunity for CIOs, because HR has been slow to adopt software that can be used to improve employee…
It used to be so much simpler to hire a data analyst. You looked for someone who knew how to take data that had been loaded into and then extracted from a data warehouse and produced reports based on that…
