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
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...]
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...]
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...]
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