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SAP Gets Microsoft Nod on Performance Management
11.19.2009
blog author
Cindi Howson
SAP announced yesterday that Microsoft supports SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (formerly known as OutlookSoft) as a "preferred solution"... It makes sense that Microsoft would prefer SAP BusinessObjects' product over others in that it runs on the Microsoft platform...

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Doug Henschen
Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI
11.18.2009
Companies used to employ armies of people to read through documents such as customer satisfaction surveys, but it took longer, cost a lot more money and yielded far less detailed, reliable and consistent information than you can now quickly uncover using text mining applications.

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True BI for the Masses
11.16.2009
blog author
Seth Grimes
BI for the Masses is overused marketing-speak meant to suggest that Vendor X's break-out Product Y is going to enable/deliver business intelligence beyond the 15%-20% of knowledge workers who currently do BI. Well, I have my own notion of BI for the Masses, and it is NOT what it's typically claimed to be. What it is is illustrated by a couple of recent New York Times data visualizations...

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Cindi Howson
Open Source vs Commercial BI
11.12.2009
One of the challenging aspects in evaluating open source is in assessing what is in the free community editions versus in the premium, supported editions... But even the premium editions from open source vendors are priced significantly lower than suites from conventional BI vendors.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT

Next Steps for Analytics in the Big-Data Era
November 23, 2009
by Doug Henschen
December events set agenda for education on analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing. Universities reset curricula.

Smarter Execs Focus On Goals, Not Just Metrics
November 13, 2009
by Doug Henschen
They're still using analytic dashboards, but tying the data to strategic goals.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: A Closer Look
November 9, 2009
by Doug Henschen
PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint speed multidimensional analysis. Parallel Data Warehouse edition now set for 2010 with IBM as a hardware partner.

Tracking Carbon Emissions: The Next Big Reporting Challenge
September 27, 2009
by Doug Henschen
With new greenhouse gas regulation looming, SAP, Microsoft and Accenture help the Carbon Disclosure Project with a SaaS-based BI platform.

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BI NEWS & ANALYSIS

IBM and Informatica Take Next Steps Toward Cloud Delivery
As the cloud model matures, new offerings pave the way for shared analytic insight and services-based data integration.

Clarabridge Upgrades Text Analytics For Customer-Feedback Apps
Clarabridge Enterprise 4 includes the addition of an ad-hoc uploader, upgrades to the natural language processing and sentiment engines, new collaboration tools in the classification suite and built-in alerts.

Truviso Upgrades Real-Time Analytics Product
Continuous Analytics v3.2, aimed at advertising networks, Web publishers, and other digital service providers, tracks sets of Web visitors for almost any segment or dimension. The sets are continually updated as new Web log, page tag or beacon data is added to the system.

IBM Pushes Business Analytics To Feds
Big Blue's newest research center focused on tools to improve decision making in D.C.

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