Growth in mobile business intelligence has been steady but slow, according to many experts. But 120 days after the introduction of its Wave analytics platform, Salesforce is “doubling down” on mobile analytics at the request of its customers, said Stephanie…
It’s hard to read a technology publication – including this one – without encountering multiple mentions of Hadoop, but it’s a different story in your average office cubicle. That realization led Xplenty, an Israeli startup that provides a cloud-based data…
One of the original promises of the cloud was that enterprises could buy computing infrastructure on-demand, so they could save money by scaling up only when needed. Most cloud applications, however, carry licensing terms that are not much more flexible…
Business intelligence and Big Data analytics vendor Pentaho is being acquired by Hitachi Data Services (HDS), in a deal that is set to close in June. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Pentaho CEO Quentin Gallivan told…
Many business intelligence experts, including those who made recent business intelligence and analytics predictions for 2015, predict that data analysis will continue to become more democratic this year, with business users gaining the ability to perform their own “what-if” analyses…
With the continuing evolution of mobile and other technologies, the shift to omni-channel strategies and continuing evolution of fraud, retailers are looking to technology advancements in 2015 to help them transform their businesses, according to industry experts. Here are nine…
One of the trickiest tasks for enterprise software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft is offering the cloud-based applications that are increasingly chosen for new deployments while not cannibalizing their existing on-premise software. SAP took a step in that direction…
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises enter the New Year, many are reflecting on the initiatives that enabled them to get their data houses in order in 2014 — whether through data migrations, M&A consolidation activities or data quality…
CRM systems hold much of an organization’s most valuable data, including customer records, product purchase and return information. So it makes sense that it would be among the first enterprise applications business leaders would tap for business intelligence or analytics…
Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff to actually run Hadoop can be a big challenge. In a bid to help reduce the Big Data skills gap, Hadoop vendor…