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...]

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...]

One theme of the release is ensuring the consistency and quality of data that resides throughout a company and is used for BI. The upgraded business intelligence software suite includes integration with IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, which contains standard business terms defined by a company; another feature lets data modelers trace back the lineage of data using InfoSphere master-data management technology. [Read more...]

By Jonathan Young, Attivio, Special to ZDNet

Commentary–It seems as though there is a watershed event in the search industry every ten years or so. Although Lexis-Nexis first commercialized search in the 1970s, it took a decade of indexing advances such as skip lists and index compression to make indexing practical, and another decade of computing advances to give us billions of searchable documents on the Internet. [Read more...]

Up to 80 percent of business data is unstructured, according to a new report from analysts Butler Group, called ‘Document and Records Management’. [Read more...]