Bi News & Articles

The first time I heard the term Big Content, I thought “Oh brother, Are Web CMS and ECM vendors actually sticking the word 'Big' in front of 'Content' in an attempt to jump onto the Big Data bandwagon?” 

Business intelligence and strategic analytics provider, Alteryx has announced US$ 12 million in funding that will be used to help with company growth.

Just in time for its Sapphire Now conference this week, SAP has released a deluge of product and partnership updates including the debut of HANA Enterprise Cloud and HANA powered OpenText for SAP Solutions.

Customer intelligence provider FirstRain, whose name invokes nourishing precipitation after a dry spell, is looking to refresh productivity in Salesforce through the release of a new set of integrated customer analytics. 

Just ask a statistician. Big data is simply anything that won't fit in Excel.

Big Data is the new oil, the new gold, the new Californium Isotope … add your own metaphor. You’ve heard it said before, and you’ll hear it said again and again. 

There are people who have the time and talent necessary to stare at columns and rows of data, plug in variables and use sophisticated software tools to help them understand and solve problems and visualize results.

And there are people who don’t.

Big Data is going big time. In the latest of a string of recent announcements by Big Data vendors, Kapow Software has unveiled the new version 9.2 of its Big Data Integration Platform, which the company says is the first such platform to “mine all information channels, deliver key insights from dynamic data sources” and automate responses. 

You know all those posts and conversations you have on Facebook and other social sites? Combined with the social interactions of zillions of other users, they contain the gold in a new gold rush, where analytics and business intelligence (BI) software can mine them for rich nuggets of insight into how you think, act and buy. Now, BI and analytics provider Information Builders has launched its new gold sifter, called WebFOCUS Social Media Analytics.  

It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, the Advanced Performance Institute and Actuate carried out a survey of over 3000 companies worldwide to find out how well they did at measuring and managing their business performance.

There was a time when if your enterprise had an application that offered insights into customer behaviour, the sales and marketing teams were happy. Now, workers want customer intelligence. On the back of that FirstRain has developed a new app that enables enterprises to build customer intelligence apps for any device from Salesforce’s Touch platform.

Recommendation systems have been popular for years in social networks, online booksellers and other sites. Now, Toronto-based Panorama Software has unveiled a new version of its Necto business intelligence (BI) solution that incorporates a recommendation engine to help drive discovery.

Tag-management software provider, Ensighten has announced a partnership with iJento, a digital multi-channel customer intelligence solutions provider. Through this partnership, the two companies will combine solutions to provide marketers with a full picture of customer interactions across channels. 

A disconnect exists between digital marketing and IT that's fueled in part by software promising IT-free solutions. But the truth isn't that simple.

As 2013 surges ahead, companies looking for mobile marketing analytics providers might have to add Anametrix to their lists because the company has released mobile app versions for the iOS, Android and Blackberry systems.