Business intelligence (BI) vendors are involved in a headlong rush to provide their software in the cloud. The drivers include anywhere access, improved scalability, reduced implementation time and lower upfront costs. But users have concerns about vendor lock-in, performance issues,…
The latest Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant (MQ) came out a few weeks ago. Comparing it to one from 2008 reveals an interesting trend. In both cases, two of the four squares (Leaders and Niche Players) were filled with dots…
In Part One of this series on Big Data solutions, we compared Oracle Exalytics and SAP HANA. But what about the alternatives? SAP and Oracle aren’t the only games in town. IBM, SAS, Pentaho, Birst, Terracotta and others are moving…
Big Data has become a super-heated area of the business intelligence (BI) landscape, with companies hoping to extract actionable insights from their growing stores of data. Business intelligence vendors are introducing solutions designed to help them do so. SAP introduced…
Ali versus Frazier, Hearns versus Leonard, the list of iconic rivalries is long. And SAP ERP versus Oracle ERP is right up there among them. While others are alive and kicking in the ERP space, and upstarts with cloud-based systems…
In no particular order, here are Enterprise Apps Today’s top five ERP forecasts for 2012: Consolidation of ERP Vendors Go back to the ‘90s and there were hundreds of ERP players. Despite constant acquisitions, it seems there are more than…
Business Intelligence vendors are always talking about the improved analytics inside their software Perhaps one day we will reach the point where those products can accurately predict the coming year. Until then, here is our best guess. Fight for the…
CRM had a good year in 2011 with its highest revenues in many years. So what does the future hold? EnterpriseAppsToday asked CRM analysts and industry experts for their predictions for the year ahead. Mobile Access the Norm It’s hard…
SAP’s recent announcement of its intent to purchase cloud-based human capital management (HCM) vendor SuccessFactors has prompted abundant analyst and blogger comment in recent weeks. So what’s the fuss all about? Andrew Filipowski, CEO of talent management vendor SilkRoad Technology,…
Each year, Oracle opens its customer doors to the press at its annual Oracle OpenWorld event. Enterprise Apps Today took advantage of the opportunity to see how Oracle’s business intelligence and customer relationship management (CRM) offerings were performing in the…