Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Embedded Analytics
Enterprise Apps Today recently published a column by Infostructure Associates’ Wayne Kernochan , who encourages IT buyers to…
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FICO Bolsters Marketing Analytics Business with Entiera Buy
IBM’s recent acquisition of Tealeaf Technology, a maker of customer experience management and analytics software, signals a growing…
Hortonworks, Kognitio Partner to Drive Hadoop Adoption
As the popularity of Apache Hadoop continues to increase, so do the partnerships for Hortonworks, a provider of…
Actuate, Cloudera Team for Big Data Business Intelligence
Actuate and Cloudera are working to ease the way for BIRT developers to integrate with the latter’s Apache…
Spotfire 4.5 Leverages Tibco Architecture for Big Data Analysis
When it comes to dealing with Big Data, software architecture matters, said Lou Jordano, director of product marketing…
IBM Gathers Tealeaf in Analytics Buying Streak
You don’t have to be a fortune teller to see that business analytics figures prominently in IBM’s future.…
Birst Grabs $26M in Financing
Analytics software provider Birst has completed a $26 million investment led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors including Hummer…
Visualization Broadens Business Intelligence’s Appeal
It makes sense that interest in business intelligence visualization is increasing, given the highly visual nature of hot…
Whither Embedded Analytics?
With all the hype about Big Data analytics, a more down-in-the-details yet highly useful new application of analytics…
Pentaho 4.5 Visualizes Big Data Analytics
Big Data is all about finding the needle in the haystack. One of the ways to make that…
IBM Seeks Big Data Domination with Vivisimo Buy, Cloudera Support
When it comes to growing its Big Data analytics portfolio, IBM is showing no signs of letting up.…
Where Big Money Is Investing in Big Data
Michael Baum, the co-founder and former CEO of Splunk, has made millions from Big Data. Splunk debuted last…
Are Small Businesses Ready for Big Data?
If you thought Big Data and the countless efforts to analyze it were strictly the concerns of large…
Teradata Debuts In-Memory System for SAS Analytics
Today, during the SAS Global Forum in Orlando, Fla., data warehousing specialist Teradata launched a new Big Data analytics system…
W2O Group Buys Ravel in Big Week for Big Data Startups
Little guys that tackle Big Data are having, well, a big week. W2O Group announced that it had acquired…
IBM Acquires Varicent for Sales Data Analytics
IBM today announced that it is acquiring Toronto-based Varicent, a maker of incentive compensation and sales performance management (SPM)…
SAP Unveils Ambitious Plans for Database Market
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to…
Business Intelligence Ain’t Over Until Exploratory Data Analysis Sings
Business intelligence has taken a step forward in maturity over the last few years, as statistical packages have…
arcplan Enterprise 7.2 Ready for Big Data
arcplan, a provider of business intelligence and planning solutions, is introducing arcplan Enterprise 7.2, a new version of…
Business Intelligence Is Booming, Gartner Finds
At this week’s Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles, a packed downtown JW Marriot hotel witnessed a mix…
Oracle Outlines Business Analytics Battle Plan
Oracle is on a mission to claim the Big Data business analytics crown and counter increasing competition from…
SAP Expanding Predictive Analytics Strategy
Traditional business intelligence is increasingly converging with predictive analytics as companies focus less on analyzing historical data and…
Host Analytics Intros Business Intelligence Tool for Finance Pros
Host Analytics, a provider of cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, has introduced Host Analytics Business Analytics, a…
SAS Introduces Visual Analytics for Big Data
In a blog post written last spring, Keith Collins, the chief technology officer of SAS, listed the company’s…
Buyer’s Guide: Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Business intelligence (BI) vendors are involved in a headlong rush to provide their software in the cloud. The…
IBM Launches Big Data Analytics for Business
Is your company’s crystal ball clouded by Big Data? That’s the question posed by IBM today as it…
Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant: Do Business Intelligence Vendors Lack Vision?
The latest Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant (MQ) came out a few weeks ago. Comparing it to one…
Pentaho Targets OEMs with Embedded Analytics
Open source business intelligence and analytics vendor Pentaho has built a business around delivering standalone enterprise solutions. It…
Zendesk Analytics Tool Helps Companies Understand ‘Silent’ Customers
Most help desk software focuses on trying to solve the problems of customers who have already complained or…
Making a Business Intelligence Case for Columnar Databases
A couple of years ago, columnar databases were a hot topic in business intelligence circles; today, not so…
IBM’s Watson Takes to Cloud for Big Data
Watson started as an IBM research project that famously ended up clobbering its human competition on “Jeopardy!” a…
Symantec Fights Big Data Sprawl With Data Insight 3.0
Vendors are selling Big Data as a kind of Jedi Knight that adds value to the enterprise through…
SAP Performance Management, Meet HANA
SAP today announced support for its HANA platform from the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) application, version…
Why You Suck at Web Analytics
Many companies spend pots of money on analytics for their websites and social media channels. Yet too often…
SAS Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon
Confirming the red-hot status of Apache Hadoop, an open source data architecture for processing large data sets, SAS…
MarkLogic Latest to Join Ranks of Hortonworks Hadoop Partners
The partnerships keep coming for Hortonworks, a provider of Hadoop services and support as well as Hadoop-compatible software.…
Hortonworks, Microsoft Team for Hadoop-Excel Support
Hortonworks, a maker of a Hadoop distribution bearing its namesake and a provider of related support and training…
Oracle Enters In-memory Analytics Fray with Exalytics
Oracle this week extended a lifeline for businesses struggling with Big Data. Its Exalytics appliance, which CEO Larry…
Alteryx Adds New Features to ‘Desktop-to-Cloud’ Analytics Software
Alteryx, a company included in Gartner’s 2012 Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant, today introduced Alteryx Strategic Analytics 7.0 at…
Big Data Not the Answer to Business Agility
The hype about agile business intelligence is getting out of hand. IT will probably suffer for it. A…
Survey: Less than a Third of IT Pros ‘Get’ Big Data
Big data is big news lately, but not all IT professionals are clear on what the term means. According…
Big Data Buyer’s Guide, Part Two: IBM, SAS, Pentaho and More
In Part One of this series on Big Data solutions, we compared Oracle Exalytics and SAP HANA. But…
Oracle Enhances Enterprise Healthcare Analytics with Data Integration Feature
Oracle introduced several enhancements to its Enterprise Healthcare Analytics, a business intelligence and performance management solution designed for…
Getting Started with Workforce Analytics
In part one of Enterprise Apps Today’s two-part interview with Dr. Carl C. Hoffmann, CEO of Human Capital…
Persistent Systems Rolls out Analytics Software Optimized for IBM Big Data Platform
Persistent Systems , a provider of outsourced software product development services and an IBM Business Partner, is releasing…
Review: QlikView 11 Connects Comparative Analysis With Social Business Intelligence
QlikView 11 Availability QlikTech has always focused on the concept that business intelligence should be user-driven, and QlikView…
Fine Tuning Your Workforce with Analytics
Workforce analytics is part of the red-hot human capital management market. In the past three months, SAP, Oracle…
Oracle Updates Advanced Analytics with Open Source R
Enterprises can look at their data in many different ways. One of them is by using the open…
In-Memory Analytics Buyer’s Guide: Oracle Big Data/Exalytics Appliances vs. SAP HANA
Big Data has become a super-heated area of the business intelligence (BI) landscape, with companies hoping to extract…
Five Mobile Business Intelligence Blunders You Won’t Want to Make
A recent Enterprise Apps Today article shared 11 Tips for Successful Mobile Business Intelligence, gleaned from interviews with…