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Survey: BI Still Hindered By Technical Problems
A 2009 survey of 324 BI professionals by BI Scorecard also found the success rates of BI deployments were largely unchanged from the last survey in 2007.
New SAP App Targets Sustainability as Strategic Advantage
Module captures and discloses data on environmental, economic and social impacts. Goal is improving performance as well as meeting compliance demands.
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Doug Henschen
Oracle Extends Governance, Risk, Compliance App Suite
Comprising the new Enterprise GRC Manager and the latest release of the Enterprise GRC Controls, the tightly integrated package delivers a 'closed-loop approach to regulatory compliance, risk management and controls automation,' Oracle says.
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 Upgrades Mashup Center
The company plans to release next month a new version of Mashup Center, which leverages Web 2.0 and other technologies in delivering data through rich Internet applications running in a browser.
EMANIO Intros 'Affordable' BI, Predictive Analytics For SMBs
The vendor is offering named user, concurrent access pricing for the integrated platforms, as well as a quarterly subscription model designed for smaller businesses. Server pricing is per named server, so the number CPUs doesn't matter.
Oracle Upgrades BI, Performance Management Suites
The business intelligence upgrade includes a new component called Oracle Spend Classification and prepackaged integration with the company's JD Edwards World business software. The new enterprise performance management release introduces an integrator module for Oracle's Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management software.
SpatialKey Launches Location Intelligence Software
SpatialKey On-Demand is a software-as-a-service offering that provides access and analysis of location-based data. Users can upload, sort and filter data sets either manually or automatically.
Salesforce.com Helps Launch SaaS Company
FinancialForce.com, a startup providing financial and accounting software as a service, is getting a minority investment and on-campus office space from Salesforce.com.
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Mary Hayes Weier
Datawatch Unveils BI Dashboards
The Datawatch Dashboards is meant to be used by employees across an organization to gain insight into operational performance. The software can be used alone or integrated with other software applications.
Edmonton Police Use BI To Fight Crime
The Canadian force, which polices a regional population of more than one million residents, uses IBM analytics technology to identify problems, associated trends and locations of crimes.
Jaspersoft Adds Flash To Reporting Engine
JasperReports Professional version 3.6 is available in developer and production runtime packages, starting at $249 per user and $4,600 per production server.
Oco Unveils Supply Chain Analytics Suite
The software-as-a-service offering provides reports, analytics, dashboards and tools to address supply chain-specific issues, such as transportation and logistics, inventory, customer service and sourcing.
4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence
Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS.
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Doug Henschen
SaaS Makes Its Mark In Business Intelligence
Faster deployments and Web access are key selling points.
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Doug Henschen
Google Adds Auto-Translation To Docs
Google translates documents using the company's machine translation, while preserving formatting and layout.
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Antone Gonsalves
SPSS Unveils Predictive Analytics For Marketers
PASW-Direct Marketing is designed for business users and requires no knowledge of advanced statistics.
IDC Ranks Vendors In Growing Business Analytics Market
In 2008, Oracle led the overall market, followed in order by SAP, IBM, SAS and Microsoft, a recent IDC report says. Rounding out the top 10 were Teradata, Fair Isaac, Informatica, Infor and MicroStrategy, respectively.
Aberdeen Tells SMBs How To Get The Most Of BI
In achieving the highest level of performance, the best-run companies are three times more likely than other companies to have a formalized BI training program, nearly two times more likely to have the ability to monitor the usage level of the BI system, and 66% more likely to leverage data cleansing tools, Aberdeen says.
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