CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – 08 Nov 2011: 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. [Read more...]
The future of business intelligence is mobile
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a recent poll among the visitors to this website, it has become clear that mobile business intelligence (BI) is no longer just a hype. More than 75% of those who voted believe that business intelligence will become completely mobile in the near future. [Read more...]
Pentaho #1 in Support for Big Data Platforms
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pentaho, a leading worldwide provider of software for BI and data integration software, today reaffirmed its commitment to support Big Data with a major expansion of native Big Data sources, including the latest Hadoop distributions, NoSQL sources, as well as native support for many analytic databases and traditional OLTP databases. [Read more...]
SAS Institute and Cognos score the most points
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For the last 10 years the market has been dominated by the BI tools Cognos and Business Objects, but Cognos with release 8 had been losing its position for the last two years.
Now with the new release 10 Cognos has returned to its status as one of the leading products in the marketplace. SAS Enterprise BI Server and IBM Cognos score the most points in the 2012 BI Tool Survey. [Read more...]
Pentaho Partners With Netezza to Deliver Complete Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“Customers should not have to choose between functionality and cost savings. Pentaho and Netezza are working together to give customers superior business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities at a lower TCO than other approaches on the market,” said Matt Rollender, director of strategic alliances for Netezza. [Read more...]
Open Source Business Intelligence in Tough Times
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tough times have always engendered sudden growth spurts of Open Source Software. The last time it occurred was soon after the Dot Com bust. This was the time when a lot of Open Source software like Linux and Java related ones got their sudden boost! [Read more...]
Data warehousers face many challenges
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With several books on data warehousing to his name, and a business that trains IT staff in the field, Ralph Kimball has been named in some quarters the “father of data warehousing” — though he appears to share that title with another data warehousing pioneer, Bill Inmon, if a Google search of the two is anything to go by. [Read more...]
Business Intelligence Teams Up With SaaS
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Now that both established vendors and upstarts offer BI solutions as on-demand services, more customers are saying yes to SaaS – gaining faster deployment, and speedier access to reporting data. [Read more...]
Surviving Economic Downturns with Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solutions
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by Markus Sprenger
Rising fuel prices, the mortgage crisis, a weak dollar, low consumer confidence – the difficulties of the current economic landscape are clear. Most businesses understand what they need to do to survive in these kinds of economic conditions. [Read more...]
