SAP Unveils Performance Management, ERP and Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) had a host of product and partnership announcements at its Sapphire Now user conference this…
Business Intelligence
Analytics Can Change Health Care: Study
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) has released findings from its six-month Health Care and Life Sciences Analytics…
Accountability Is Key to Data Governance
As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee and…
EMC Unveils Hadoop Appliance for Big Data Analytics
EMC (NYSE: EMC) says the company has a new strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop…
‘Big Data’ Offers Big Challenges – And Big Rewards
“Big data” is exploding as more and more information is collected and stored daily, and both businesses and…
Data-driven Decisions a Best Practice, but Still Not Mainstream
In 2003 Nicholas Carr created a stir among tech professionals by writing a Harvard Business Review article, titled…
Business Intelligence Must Mesh with Your Business to Work
Business intelligence (BI) remains one of the hottest enterprise technologies, but finding a BI solution that fits dependably…
YouTube Founders Acquire Tap11 for Social Business Intelligence
AVOS, a new Internet company led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Tap11.com, a…
Information Builders and Teradata Combine Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
Business intelligence (BI) solution provider Information Builders has partnered with Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to offer a new data…
IBM Strengthens Online Marketing with Coremetrics Analytics Software
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched new cloud-based analytics software, Coremetrics Lifecycle, that Big Blue says will help boost…
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Reveals Changing, Growing BI Market
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, held in Los Angeles earlier this week, attracted a record crowd of more…
Microsoft Opens up Its Business Intelligence
Remember when Microsoft had a reputation as an “anti-open” software company that zealously guarded its proprietary code? Things have…
Microsoft BI Labs Takes Grassroots Approach to Business Intelligence
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is taking a grassroots approach to business intelligence (BI) technology with the quiet launch of…
Oracle Adds Mobile Business Intelligence to iPad, iPhone
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today unveiled a number of new features for its business intelligence software, including a new…
Why Most Business Intelligence Projects Fail
Recently, Gartner noted a study that purported to show that “between 70% and 80% of BI projects fail.”…
Microsoft Demos PowerPivot Business Intelligence with Calendar Analytics
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is offering a free Calendar Analytics application to demonstrate the power of its PowerPivot business…
Why Half of Business Intelligence Users Are Dissatisfied
Business Intelligence spending may be on the rise, but not everyone is happy with their purchase, if a…
BI Getting More Social
I’ve long thought that business intelligence and social technologies were made for each other. Last January I wrote about…
SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Lead Business Intelligence Market
The business intelligence, analytic applications and performance management software market grew more than 13 percent last year to…
Gartner: BI Spending Grows 13.4 Percent in 2010
It seems companies turn to business intelligence to give them a competitive edge in a still-shaky economy. Enough…
MicroStrategy Business Intelligence 9.2 Offers Visual Insight
Business intelligence (BI) software provider MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has unveiled MicroStrategy 9.2, which offers a number of improvements…
Panorama Social Business Intelligence Platform Puts Focus on Relevancy
Business Intelligence (BI) solution provider Panorama Software has unveiled its new Necto BI solution. As noted by the…
MicroStrategy Software Update Promotes Insight-as-a-Service
I think the whole “as a service” phrase has jumped the shark as I was quick to tell a Verizon…
QlikTech Sees Mobile Business Intelligence Moving to HTML5 Browsers
Mobile business intelligence has evolved from browser-based clients to native apps — and now QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) sees…
Heritage Announces $3 Million Healthcare Analytics Contest
The Heritage Provider Network has created a $3 million prize for the development of a healthcare predictive model…
SAS, EMC Team Up for High-Performance Analytics
Business analytics pioneer SAS says it will give customers a better view of critical information using a purpose-built…
Edmunds Deploys MicroStrategy Market Analysis iPad App
MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR) has announced that Edmunds.com, Inc., a consumer resource for automotive information, has deployed a…
SAP Unveils Rapid Deployment Applications for Quick Gains
SAP (NYSE: SAP) is now offerings its Rapid Deployment solutions worldwide and has announced 15 new offerings as…
What Agile Business Intelligence Really Means
One of the written works I most admire, Bruce Catton’s history of the Civil War (“Never Call Retreat”),…
InsideView Sales Intelligence Will Be Preloaded in SugarCRM
InsideView and SugarCRM have announced that InsideView’s sales intelligence solution will come preinstalled in all editions of SugarCRM.…
Actuate Turns Unstructured Data into Business Intelligence
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) unveiled a new offering this week that gleans business intelligence from unstructured and semi-structured data,…
Alteryx Secures $6M Funding From SAP Ventures
Geographic Business Intelligence (BI) software developer Alteryx, Inc., has announced a $6 Million investment by SAP Ventures Fund…
EMC Expands Greenplum Big Data Analytics
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is expanding its Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) line of products for archive layer…
SugarCRM Acquires iExtensions CRM
Earlier this week, SugarCRM announced it has acquired iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises for an undisclosed sum, reports eCRMGuide.com. Built…
Lawson Introduces New Analytics Tools
Lawson Software introduced Lawson Analytics for Healthcare, a new analytic solution that purports to deliver a simple way…
MarketTools Now Offers Role-Based Adaptive Reporting
MarketTools, Inc., has announced the addition of Adaptive Role-based Reporting to its MarketTools CustomerSat enterprise feedback management (EFM)…
dvsAnalytics Releases Latest Version of Desktop Analytics
Call recording and contact center analytics provider, dvsAnalytics, has announced the latest release of its Encore Desktop Analytics…
Infor Unveils SharePoint-based UI
Infor announced Infor Workspace, a consumer-grade user interface built on Microsoft SharePoint that’s designed to provide a better…
GuestLogix Releases OnTouch Analytics for Airline Industry
GuestLogix, Inc. (TSX:GXI) recently released OnTouch Analytics, an analytics platform created for the airline industry. As noted by…
Dresner Survey Shows ‘Above Average’ Take on BI
In a post I wrote as 2010 was drawing to a close, I noted that a year-end wrap-up piece on…
Hadoop Takes Innovation Prize
Why the Hoopla over Hadoop? Hadoop in nine easy to understand facts. The Guardian awarded Apache Hadoop with…
IBM Moves Social Media Analytics to the Cloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is moving social media analytics to the cloud. Big Blue today unveiled cloud-based software that…
Panorama Necto Puts Social Media Into Enterprise BI Applications
Business Intelligence (BI) solution provider, Panorama Software, has announced today the availability of its newest product, Panorama Necto,…
Social Business Intelligence – What Is It, and Do You Need It?
Social business intelligence is a convergence of several trends: It’s business intelligence plus knowledge management, plus social networking…
Fine Tuning BI
In order to justify expenditures and upgrading in a business intelligence (BI) system, it is important to demonstrate…
Pentaho Upgrades Open Source Business Intelligence Software
Business intelligence (BI) software can provide a wealth of information, though it’s not always easy to build reports…
Predixion Launches Predictive Analytics Partner Network
Predixion Software has launched the Predixion Partner Network, a new practice dedicated to working with business intelligence-focused consulting…
Considerations for Mobile Business Intelligence
Mobile business intelligence is something every organization should at least be thinking about, considering that influential industry analyst…
‘Smarter Commerce’ to Aid IBM Customers
In less than 20 years, the Web has changed many industries from top to bottom, hardly any as…
IBM Launches Smarter Commerce Software and Consulting Services
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has recently announced new software and the creation of a consulting practice dedicated to the…