Intelligent Enterprise

Is Gartner's Quadrant the Problem, Or Is It How It's Used?
02. 8.2010

Cindi Howson

Bashing Gartner's Magic Quadrants seems to be a popular industry pastime, but in truth, I kind of like the quadrants. My biggest gripe is in how the quadrants are used, not necessarily the quadrants themselves...

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Seth Grimes

Clarabridge Asks, Are You Customer Experienced?
02. 5.2010
Add "customer" to Jimi Hendrix' song title and you have a question central to last week's Clarabridge Customer Connections (C3) conference, Are You Customer Experienced?

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Quick Thoughts on Sybase/Aleri
02. 4.2010

Curt Monash

Sybase today announced an asset purchase that amounts to a takeover of CEP (Complex Event Processing) vendor Aleri, which last year acquired Coral8. Quick reactions include...

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Seth Grimes

Visualize Balance, Visualize Change
02. 3.2010
The best BI visualizations bring out essential information that might otherwise remain hidden in data. A Washington Post visualization of President Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011 does just that. There's much to be learned from a New York Times example as well, in particular about visualizing change.

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2010 EVENTS
Feb 1-2, 2010
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
London

Feb 8-9/10-11/12, 2010
The Modeling Agency Data Mining: Levels I, II & III
Orlando, FL

Feb 11, 2010
IDC Business Information Management Seminar 2010
Mexico City, Mexico

February 16-17, 2010
Predictive Analytics World
San Francisco

February 21-26, 2010
TDWI World Conference
Las Vegas

February 22-24, 2010
TDWI BI Executive Summit
Las Vegas

Feb 23-26, 2010
Kimball Group Dimensional Modeling In Depth
Dallas

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Text Analytics Drives Customer Insight
January 25, 2010
by David Stodder
By uniting intelligence from customer surveys and social media with conventional business intelligence, companies are moving beyond transactions to understand customer behavior.

SaaS-Based BI Tracks Rossignol Ski and Snowboard Sales
January 5, 2010
by Doug Henschen
Executives and managers bypass ERP, tapping marketing, sales and inventory business intelligence.

Analytics at Work: Q&A with Tom Davenport
January 4, 2010
by Doug Henschen
In a preview of his follow-up to "Competing on Analytics," co-author and business guru Tom Davenport explores what it takes to move to analytic decision-making.

Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Event Calendar
December 29, 2009
by Doug Henschen
If it's about information management, business intelligence, enterprise applications, processes or architecture, it's listed in our annual guide to technology events. Make your plans for the can't-miss conferences, expos and summits of 2010.

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IBM Releases Cognos Analytics Upgrades
TM1 in-memory engine supports dynamic scenario planning. Prebuilt blueprints tackle retail and insurance planning and profit analysis.

Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant Rankles SAP
Vendor calls BusinessObjects "ability to execute" rating into question.

Information Builders Upgrades RStat Analytics Module
Neural network and survival analysis algorithms bolster predictive scoring capabilities.

Insurance Database Connects Dots on Truck Theft
Integrating multiple sources, CargoNet will drive nationwide alerting and truck stop watch programs.

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