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Tibco Brings Analytics to Spotfire Business Users
March 10, 2010
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Doug Henschen
Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data-analysis and data-visualization environment.
Q&A: MicroStrategy On BI Performance and Mobility
March 8, 2010
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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
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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.
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Q&A With IBM's New Top Executive at SPSS
February 24, 2010
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Doug Henschen
Marketing veteran Deepak Advani talks about predictive analytics and Big Blue's coming decision-management offerings.
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IBM Releases Cognos Analytics Upgrades
February 9, 2010
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Doug Henschen
TM1 in-memory engine supports dynamic scenario planning. Prebuilt blueprints tackle retail and insurance planning and profit analysis.
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Competitors Weigh In on Oracle's Single-Stack Plan
February 1, 2010
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Doug Henschen
SAP says it's a fantasy while IBM asks "what took you so long?"
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Netezza Rolls Out Entry-Level Data Warehouse Appliance
January 25, 2010
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Doug Henschen
At $12,500 per terabyte, Skimmer release targets analytic applications, data-marts and development environments.
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SAS Revenue Grows in 2009
January 22, 2010
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Doug Henschen
Analytics vendor posts 3.3% gain in software sales and 2.2% increase in revenue.
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Analytics at Work: Q&A with Tom Davenport
January 4, 2010
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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.
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Survey: BI Still Hindered By Technical Problems
December 17, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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IBM Study Finds Top Firms Embrace Information-Driven Culture
December 15, 2009
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Doug Henschen
Use of analytics, data governance practices and employee empowerment set successful companies apart.
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New SAP App Targets Sustainability as Strategic Advantage
December 14, 2009
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Doug Henschen
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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Oracle Extends Governance, Risk, Compliance App Suite
December 9, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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OrderMotion Offers PivotLink BI To Online Retailers
November 30, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
In integrating PivotLink with its OMX product, OrderMotion adds a number of BI capabilities for its customers, including the ability to monitor sales trends for demand forecasting and to measure the lifetime value of customers.
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IBM and Informatica Take Next Steps Toward Cloud Delivery
November 20, 2009
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Doug Henschen
As the cloud model matures, new offerings pave the way for shared analytic insight and services-based data integration.
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Clarabridge Upgrades Text Analytics For Customer-Feedback Apps
November 16, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Smarter Execs Focus On Goals, Not Just Metrics
November 13, 2009
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Doug Henschen
They're still using analytic dashboards, but tying the data to strategic goals.
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Truviso Upgrades Real-Time Analytics Product
November 12, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: A Closer Look
November 9, 2009
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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.
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SaaS Provider Oco Unveils Customer, Sales Analytics
November 6, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
Oco's new product integrates data from various sources into a single data warehouse to provide a 'comprehensive view of the customer' through interactive scorecards, what-if dashboards, multi-dimensional reports, and adhoc analysis tools.
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Aster Data Upgrades MPP Analytic Database
November 6, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The new version of the massively parallel processing analytic database includes a 'data-application server' that acts as a host for application processing, while also managing workloads, security and fault isolation.
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IBM Upgrades Mashup Center
November 2, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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IBM Intros BI Tools For Unstructured Data
October 27, 2009
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Mary Hayes Weier
Content Analytics is a set of business intelligence tools designed to analyze e-mail, blogs, reports, and other external data.
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EMANIO Intros 'Affordable' BI, Predictive Analytics For SMBs
October 23, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Teradata Unveils 'Extreme' Data Warehouse Appliance
October 19, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The new Extreme Performance Appliance 4555 delivers sub-second responses to complex queries, while offering scalability and flexibility over other technologies, such as complex event processing and in-memory processing, according to the vendor.
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Oracle Upgrades BI, Performance Management Suites
October 14, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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TIBCO Links BI With BPM
October 12, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
iProcess Spotfire provides a BI layer over TIBCO's BPM software to make it possible for business users to monitor and continuously improve processes.
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SpatialKey Launches Location Intelligence Software
October 1, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Appian Upgrades BPM Suite
October 1, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
Among the ease-of-use features in Appian 6 is one-click import, export and publishing of models, rules, expressions, forms and all other components of a process application. In addition, the upgrade offers application-centric portal views for end users.
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Datawatch Unveils BI Dashboards
September 28, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Edmonton Police Use BI To Fight Crime
September 28, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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Jaspersoft Adds Flash To Reporting Engine
September 21, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
JasperReports Professional version 3.6 is available in developer and production runtime packages, starting at $249 per user and $4,600 per production server.
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Sybase Offers Software For Amazon EC2
September 7, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The latest products enable developers to take Sybase's SQL Anywhere, IQ or Adaptive Server Enterprise data-management products and use them to set up and allocate data and analytic servers in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
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Oco Unveils Supply Chain Analytics Suite
September 7, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence
August 29, 2009
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Doug Henschen
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Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS.
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SaaS Makes Its Mark In Business Intelligence
August 29, 2009
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Doug Henschen
Faster deployments and Web access are key selling points.
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Google Adds Auto-Translation To Docs
August 28, 2009
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Antone Gonsalves
Google translates documents using the company's machine translation, while preserving formatting and layout.
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SPSS Unveils Predictive Analytics For Marketers
August 24, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
PASW-Direct Marketing is designed for business users and requires no knowledge of advanced statistics.
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IDC Ranks Vendors In Growing Business Analytics Market
August 24, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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.
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IBM Adds Intelligence To Sensor Data
August 19, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The WebSphere Sensor Events software can draw data from readers of radio-frequency identification tags on items moving between suppliers, manufacturers and distribution centers, and then send that information to business systems for processing.
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Four Vendors Join In Offering BI From The Cloud
August 15, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The joint software-as-a-service stack includes Jaspersoft's and Talend's open source business intelligence and data integration technologies, respectively; Vertica's analytic database and RightScale's developer tools for setting up server clusters in a cloud computing environment.
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Aberdeen Tells SMBs How To Get The Most Of BI
August 10, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
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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IBM To Acquire SPSS For $1.2 Billion
July 28, 2009
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Paul McDougall
Big Blue also revealed a separate deal to buy out security and compliance vendor Ounce Labs for an undisclosed sum.
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Attensity Mines Customer Comments
July 27, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
Attensity Group is offering Web-based software that can mine customers' comments in surveys to better understand their sentiments, satisfaction, loyalty and potential product or service issues.
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BI A Top Technology On Executives' Wish Lists
July 20, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
In surveying more than 1,600 executives in 36 countries, the Aberdeen Group found that one in four identified BI and analytics as the software technology with the most pronounced effect in 2009.
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Kickfire Offers Online Trials Of Analytic Appliance
July 16, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The try-before-you-buy offer allows prospective customers to run their own queries on a large database of U.S. flight data from the last 20 years.
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Latest Upgrade Available For PostgreSQL Database
July 6, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
Version 8.4 has 293 features that are either new or improvements to previous capabilities.
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Information Builders Tops Ventana's 'Value Index' For BI Vendors
June 29, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
Information Builders topped the list of seven vendors that agreed to participate in the study with a value index of 93%, followed by IBM Cognos Software, Infor, Softscape, Arcplan, Actuate, Symphony-Metreo, Microsoft and InetSoft, respectively.
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Panorama Gets Help From Google In Upgrade Of Web-Enabled BI Apps
June 29, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
A new Google Apps client includes a Flash-based analysis application that uses Google Docs in presenting an intuitive user interface that allows casual information workers to navigate through large amounts of data to generate business insights.
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IDC Offers Outlook, Vendor Evaluation In Latest BI Report
June 19, 2009
by Antone Gonsalves
The IDC Competitive Analysis Report lists SAP BusinessObjects as the clear leader of the business intelligence tools market, and says SAP is "well positioned to fulfill the future needs of BI technology purchasers."
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