Details of people who attend political rallies and protests are being stored, even if the individuals have not committed a crime, in a move likely to incense civil liberties groups.
BI applications are expected to have the highest impact on organizations such as manufacturing firms over the next two to five years, according to the Aberdeen Group's 2009 State of the Market: Mid-Year Insights Report.
Business intelligence vendor Teradata is not worried by Oracle's and IBM's recent sabre rattling, saying the vendors' respective technologies remain fundamentally unsuited for high-performance analytics.
Business intelligence solutions are historically complex, expensive and take months or years to install. However QlikView software, developed by QlikTech, costs around a third of other systems and can be up and running in days.
SAP and HP on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership agreement to integrate the software vendor's Business Warehouse and business intelligence tools with HP's Neoview data warehouse, making it easier for users to mine data housed in non-SAP applications and manage enormous reservoirs of customer data.
SAP BusinessObjects' BI suite, BusinessObjects XI, for example, offers query, reporting, dashboarding and search capabilities, among others, in one package. The same goes for BI suites from IBM Cognos, Oracle and Information Builders.
An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse Tuesday into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development related product plans.
The decisions technology vendors make have a significant effect on the decision making and strategic directions CIOs take. Arguably, any product decision made by Microsoft has a greater effect on CIOs than any other vendor. So CIO UK sat down with Microsoft leaders to discuss where the operating system giant is heading.
Though cloud computing is increasingly becoming part of enterprise IT strategy, it will likely be a while until large-scale, mission-critical databases make their way to the cloud. Businesses still have concerns over security, scalability and performance that must be addressed as the technology matures.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This investment-prospectus lingo has never been more apt for business in general than in this post-financial-meltdown, pre-recovery economy. Yet now more than ever, top executives, corporate directors, and financial markets want no surprises.
80legs has officially launched its service, which brings supercomputer-scale data mining of the Web to companies, and even individuals. The Houston, Texas-based startup leverages a grid of 50,000 servers to search and crunch millions of Web pages within minutes, CEO Shion Deysarkar says.
In this one to one interview with Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com, Timo Elliott passes on his thoughts such as covering trends in predictive analytics, cloud computing and social network analysis.
IBM has announced a BI (business intelligence) and planning suite aimed at midsized companies that need more insight into their business than a spreadsheet can provide, but not the complexity of an enterprise-level product. Dubbed Cognos Express, the applications are meant for businesses with between 100 and 999 workers, said Ben Plummer, general manager of the IBM Cognos midmarket business unit.
Last year was another busy one for business intelligence (BI). After the previous year's slew of acquisitions, 2008 saw the mega-vendors integrate their new BI technologies, while operational and on-demand BI saw gains in adoption. What does 2009 hold in store for BI? Three industry watchers share their 2009 BI forecasts.
Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), and Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division, in addition to General Manager for SQL Server Business Intelligence Tom Casey and Technical Fellow David J. DeWitt of the Data and Storage Platform Division return to deliver keynotes on the next generation of BI and the latest innovations from the Jim Gray Systems Lab.
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Ventana Research today introduces its 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence, the second of a new category of quantified, research-based Indexes. This new Value Index provides research-based metrics that will enable organizations to ascertain the value to them of existing and future business intelligence technologies, systems and tools for business and IT in a simple and easy-to-use manner. Using the Value Index, businesses will be able to meet the challenge of evaluating vendors and their products and making choices based on an understanding of how well the offerings meet their needs
Comverse and Infor have announced a strategic partnership that expands the telecom industry-leading Comverse ONE Billing and Active Customer Management solution to include capabilities from Infor CRM.
Blink Logic, a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) business intelligence products, has launched a new product to allow advertising and marketing executives gain insight into campaign effectiveness.
The new product line combines implementation methodology, metadata lifecycle management, MPP database, ETL and visual analytics into an appliance platform.
The company has selected MicroStrategy's business intelligence (BI) software for the same.
According to Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy, advanced analytics, scalability, and intuitive reporting features serve as critical tools for Web 2.0 companies.
