IBM, Oracle and SAP Pressured by Low-Priced Business Intelligence
IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and SAP (NYSE: SAP) remain in the leaders quadrant of Gartner’s latest…
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Lister Technologies Unveils Business Intelligence for Healthcare
Lister Technologies has unveiled a new healthcare business intelligence solution. Lister HITAM is “designed to rapidly streamline the…
MicroStrategy Bolsters its BI Platform
Last week at its annual user conference in Las Vegas, MicroStrategy announced Transaction Services, a new product that…
EMC Offers Free Community Version of ‘Big Data’ Analytics Tools
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has released a free community edition of the EMC Greenplum Database, along with analytic algorithms…
CIOs to Focus on Improved Business Intelligence
According to the latest research from Gartner there are three key areas CIOs are focusing their attention on…
Oracle Now Offering CRM On Demand Locally from Europe
Oracle has expanded its CRM On Demand offering to European customers. This move was made possible after the…
IBM Adds Intelligence to Business Planning with Cognos Express Planner
IBM this week began shipping a new module in its Cognos Express line of business intelligence (BI) and…
Data in Memory Important for Deep Data Analytics
In-memory databases are becoming increasingly popular and an ever-more important factor in performance-critical activities such as stream processing…
Ten Great Mobile Business Intelligence Apps
Mobile business intelligence is getting a lot of ink these days. Yet according to Forrester Research, that coverage…
SAS Boosts 2010 Revenue with Contract Wins
SAS has boosted its local revenues for 2010 — in Australia and New Zealand, new software revenue was…
MicroStrategy Offers New iPhone, iPad Business Intelligence Products
MicroStrategy has plans to announce a series of new business intelligence (BI) products for Apple mobile devices at…
Database Tips for Business Intelligence Administration
According to DataBase Journal, DW/BI (data warehouse / business intelligence) applications are a huge investment, but organizations do…
Jaspersoft Offers Native BI Reporting For Big Data
Jaspersoft hasy released a software set that supports a wide variety of big data sources for business intelligence…
Actuate Announces Cloud-Based Business Intelligence
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT) has recently announced the latest iteration of BIRT onDemand — the company’s software as…
ClickSquared to Support Jaspersoft Business Intelligence
Email and cross-channel database marketing solution provider, ClickSquared, has announced the selection of Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.…
Microsoft Excel Business Intelligence Through Script Task
Despite the technological superiority of the SQL Server product line, Microsoft Office Excel remains a widely popular application…
SAS Revenue Jumps to Record $2.43 Billion
Business Analytic company, SAS, says the company has achieved record global revenue of US$2.43 billion in 2010, up…
Does BI Need More Integrated Analytics?
It’s not unusual for people to use the terms “business intelligence” and “business analytics” interchangeably. But now with…
BI a Useful Tool in Green IT
The data center doesn’t have a monopoly on green IT, according to Computerworld. Business intelligence is emerging as…
Microsoft and HP Could Reshape the IT Landscape
Among the flood of computing vendor announcements that marked the start of the new year was one that…
Time to Ditch Spreadsheets?
Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet application is a popular choice for companies looking to track expenses and manage business data.…
Altair Releases HiQube Business Intelligence Solution
Altair Engineering, Inc. has officially released version 6.0 of HiQube, its simulation-driven business intelligence (BI) and data analytics…
Groupon Leverages Vertica Business Analytics Platform
Chicago-based Groupon will use Vertica’s business analytics platform to analyze data to attribute revenue and other performance metrics…
New Appliances from HP and Microsoft Speed Business Intelligence
HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) have announced four new converged application appliances that fuse applications, infrastructure and…
KnoahSoft Speech Analyzer Boosts Call Center Agent Performance
KnoahSoft says that that all editions of its Harmony suite can now be enhanced with a robust speech…
PushToTest Embeds Jaspersoft Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) software maker, Jaspersoft, has recently announced that open source software testing provider PushToTest is embedding…
Coupling Semantics, ETL and Data Marts – Better than Virtualization?
Last year – and probably it will be this year – data federation or data virtualization (or the…
Microsoft Targets Oracle, Salesforce with Dynamic CRM 2011
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online has been released to customers after having been in a four-month beta that…
New Ways to Deploy Business Intelligence Tools
There is more to business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) than just gathering the data and analyzing…
IBM’s New Way of Selling IT
Recently, the real news for IT, business intelligence and enterprise applications buyers has often been vendors’ new selling…
Mobile Business Intelligence Is Actionable Intelligence
According to recent Aberdeen Group research, companies that use Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) make critical management decisions in…
MicroStrategy Test Breaks 100,000 User Barrier
Business intelligence (BI) software provider, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has said that in benchmark tests of its latest software…
End User at Center of BI Trends for 2011
As I wrote recently, there’s a growing sense that business intelligence just isn’t cutting it for a lot of…
Business Intelligence Vendors Woo Retailers with Analytics
Business intelligence and analytics vendors were out in force at this week’s National Retail Federation conference in New…
Spectrum Research: Turn Information into Actionable Data
Spectrum Corporation has released a new white paper entitled, “Technology, Analytics and the Successful Contact Center” in which…
SQL or NoSQL: Which is Better For Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence applications are moving from the traditional connection to an OLAP Data source based on relational database…
Jaspersoft Revamps BI App with New User Interface
Jaspersoft introduced Jaspersoft 4, the latest version of its open source business intelligence software. Built on open Web…
Jaspersoft Aims to Make Business Intelligence Pervasive
Open source business intelligence leader Jaspersoft today unveiled Jaspersoft 4, which the company is billing as the “first…
Speedy Sales Forecasting Boosts Sales
Speed is everything when it comes to pull a reliable sales forecast report. This CRM Buyer article cites…
Oracle Goes After SAP with New Business Intelligence App
The multi-billion dollar business intelligence (BI) software industry is driven by one basic value proposition — to get…
Business Analytics 2011 Predictions
The 2011 Forrester research agenda plans to follow business analytics trends including self service, pervasive, social, scalable, cloud,…
New BI App from Oracle Looks to Poach SAP’s Customers
Oracle has further encroached upon SAP’s turf with the introduction of Oracle Financial Analytics for SAP, a new…
Free Speech Analytics Call Center Software
The Speech BI (Business Intelligence) and Speech BI Plus On-demand Speech Analytics Managed Service programs from Customer Relationship…
Analysts Predict a Business Intelligence Revolution
Gartner is predicting a 33 per cent rise in the use of business intelligence (BI) tools on handheld…
Smart Spending Boosts BI Performance
Sometimes an IT budget that’s too big is as bad as one that’s too small. IT pros with lots…
Building Business Growth with Business Intelligence
ERP and CRM systems store information but, as noted in this PC Quest article, it’s business intelligence (BI)…
Information Builders Simplifies Business Intelligence
Information Builders has unveiled a new business intelligence tool that the company says will allow non-technical end users…
Claims Processing With OpenConnect Business Intelligence
Claims Processing, especially in Healthcare is an inexact science and many Business Intelligence (BI) efforts in this area…
Self-Service Business Intelligence On the Agenda For 2011
Analysts say that enterprises will increasingly look for opportunities to tap self-service business intelligence systems and SaaS-based BI…
10 Techniques for Successful Business Intelligence Deployment
The ingredients to a successful Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence deployment include good project management, effective communication and…