Intelligent Enterprise

SAS Exudes Confidence at Analyst Summit
03. 3.2010

Cindi Howson

I'm just back from the SAS 19th annual analyst summit... With IBM having acquired SPSS, SAS's closest (but distant) competitor in advanced analytics, I thought there would be more attention on how this acquisition will affect SAS's strategy and market dynamics. And yet, it sounded almost like a nonevent...

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Cindi Howson

My Brush With Sentiment Analysis, Open Source BI and Celebrities in Vegas
03. 1.2010
At TDWI in Vegas last week, I caught a presentation by Bill Baker (formerly of Microsoft, now of Visible Technologies) on social media and sentiment analysis... I also welcomed Pentaho to my BI Bake Off for the first time... And it wouldn't be Vegas without celebrity sightings!

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Dresner Taps the BI 'Wisdom of the Crowds'
03. 1.2010

Doug Henschen

When Howard Dresner recently pinged me about his new "Wisdom of the Crowds" Business Intelligence Market Survey," I thought it might have something to do with James Surowiecki's book of the same name. Turns out he's just tapping into your experience and wisdom, not further explaining the strength-in-numbers phenomenon...

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Sandy Kemsley

J&J Uses Dashboards to Run the Business
02.25.2010
At this week's IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto, David Haigh of Johnson & Johnson presented on how the company is using dashboards for process improvement efforts.

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Q&A: MicroStrategy On BI Performance and Mobility
March 8, 2010
by Doug Henschen
COO Sanju Bansal talks about smart phone capabilities, analytics, dashboards and the dirty secret in business intelligence: slow query response times.

Expert Analysis: You Can Predict That R Will Succeed
March 3, 2010
by David Stodder
Adoption by IBM SPSS, SAS and Information Builders can't hurt. But REvolution Computing may do for R what RedHat did for Linux.

Q&A With IBM's New Top Executive at SPSS
February 24, 2010
by Doug Henschen
Marketing veteran Deepak Advani talks about predictive analytics and Big Blue's coming decision-management offerings.

Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards 2010
February 11, 2010
by Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent Enterprise names 'The Dozen' most influential vendors for the intelligent enterprise and 36 'Companies to Watch' in 2010.

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Tibco Brings Analytics to Spotfire Business Users
Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data-analysis and data-visualization environment.

Google Debuts Public Data Explorer
The company's latest visualization experiment lets users create their own charts and graphs using public data.

MySQL's Urlocker Joins Revolution Board
Zack Urlocker has left Oracle to join the predictive analystics startup, REvolution Computing.

SAP Revamps BusinessObject SaaS BI Suite
Upgraded BI OnDemand service consolidates CrystalReports.com, adds workflows for business intelligence novices.

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