Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced the general availability of Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. With this release, Pentaho provides new user-driven, interactive visualization and data exploration capabilities that access all data sources, including big data, as well as a pluggable and extensible interface for software and SaaS companies to easily add third-party visualizations. [Read more...]
Pentaho Introduces New Interactive Visualization and Expanded Big Data Analytics
May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
OBIEE vs Business Objects
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A unique comparison is made between OBIEE vs Business Objects by the Passionned Group, an analyst & research company based in Europe. They compared 16 business intelligence & reporting tools on more than 100 criteria. [Read more...]
OBIEE vs Cognos
April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the BI Tool Survey 2012 a vendor independent comparison between OBIEE vs Cognos and fourteen other Business Intelligence tools is made on more than 100 selection criteria. The criteria we are talking about here are critical for achieving success with Business Intelligence. For example does OBIEE or Cognos support role-based reporting and can report components be reused across the business intelligence implementation, whether they are used in web reports, dashboards, analysis, the intranet or a mobile variant. [Read more...]
BOARD International announces the release of BOARD 7.4, based on groundbreaking HBMP technology
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BOARD International, global leader in the Business Intelligence (BI) & Corporate Performance (CPM) space, announces the release of BOARD 7.4, the only software solution that unifies BI and CPM in a seamlessly integrated, self-service environment. In addition to offering several functional enhancements, the new version contains a revolutionary technology called HBMP (Hybrid Bitwise in-Memory Pattern) that combines the benefits of in-memory computing with the scalability, ease of use, and ability to support simulation and planning processes, all of which have led to the international success of BOARD. [Read more...]
New SAS Visual Analytics helps organizations analyze, visualize big data
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A new in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution from SAS uses a highly visual interface to bring powerful analytics to a broader class of users than ever before. SAS Visual Analytics, the newest product in the SAS High-Performance Analytics family from the leader in business analytics, provides a fast, simple and cost-effective path to business insight and better decisions. [Read more...]
SQL Server 2012 comes available April 1
March 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the latest version of the world’s most widely deployed data platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, has released to manufacturing. SQL Server 2012 helps address the challenges of increasing data volumes by rapidly turning data into actionable business insights. Expanding on Microsoft’s commitment to help customers manage any data, regardless of size, both on-premises and in the cloud, the company today also disclosed additional details regarding its plans to release an Apache Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure. [Read more...]
Shareable Ink Gains Competitive Edge with Pentaho Big Data
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced that Shareable Ink®, an enterprise cloud computing provider that transforms paper documentation to structured data, has incorporated Pentaho Business Analytics to help create an innovative big data analytics platform for healthcare. Shareable Ink Analytics extracts clinical and operational data that originates from natural input tools such as iPads and digital pens, and visualizes it into dashboards and drill-down analyses and reports. [Read more...]
The BI tools comparison matrix offers in-depth 100% vendor independent research
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The BI tools comparison matrix from Passionned Group displays all the important features of business intelligence tools in the market, also their weaknesses. The matrix, which is included in the Full Edition of the BI Tool Survey 2012, offers the results of in-depth and 100% vendor independent research. It provides all the information you need to choose the best BI tool for your organization taking into account the preferences of your business users – from novice to expert – and BI developers. It helps you in addition to select a BI tool that met the requirements of the IT department. [Read more...]
Corporate Culture Key to Success with Analytics
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New research released today by MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value (NYSE: IBM) reports that organizational challenges, more so than technology hurdles, are holding companies back from fully integrating analytics across their enterprises.
According to a global survey of more than 4,500 executives, managers and analysts from more than 120 countries and 30 industries, 44 percent of organizations say cultural barriers to enterprise-wide analytics adoption, such as the requirement for new leadership competencies and organizational resistance to new ideas, are the primary barriers. In contrast, only 24 percent point to technology concerns. [Read more...]
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