Bi News & Articles

Businesses are making it increasingly easy for their workers to access business intelligence on the go. While the benefits of this trend can be felt enterprise-wide, how will it help those working in risk management?

The term “Social” means different things to different people. Same for “Big Data” (believe it or not, some people even use it as a verb). And while in one sense their precise definitions don’t matter, if you’re using them as labels, they do. We need some clarification. Now, before their meanings get lost and become irretrievable.

Oracle is rolling out Oracle Business Intelligence Release 11.1.1.6.2BP1. Notable features of the latest Oracle BI release, introduced at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, include a new mobile user experience and visualization features.

Box is adding new features designed to make enterprise-wide adoption of its cloud-based online content-sharing service irresistible. 

 Enterprise cloud integrator SnapLogic is boosting its efforts to increase adoption of its platform – thanks in part to a new round of Series C funding that brought in US$ 20 million.

 Following on last week's unstructured data management product launch, Quest has just announced a new business intelligence tool that aims to build a bridge between business analysts who create data, and data consumers that use that data to make decisions.

Business intelligence platform provider Jaspersoft has released a new survey that examines how companies across the globe are using big data analytics. Although many studies indicate the challenge of managing rapidly growing data volumes paralyzes many companies into inaction, Jaspersoft’s research tells a different story.

It’s the middle of the holiday period, so it’s a little bit surprising to see Gartner release another one of its Magic Quadrants. This time it’s the Sales Force Automation quadrant that features quite a number of the vendors we've seen in the customer experience management space, except this one has a slightly different focus.

Oracle continues to snap at Salesforce’s heels in the CRM space, this time with an upgrade to its CRM on Demand product. Release 20 adds industry-specific functionality for the financial, automotive life sciences and insurance sectors.

The availability of new big data platforms and technologies is enabling organizations and their data scientists to analyze greater varieties of data, in greater volumes and with greater velocity. However, the goal of these advanced data analytics efforts is fundamentally aimed at realizing the same objective that executives and data analysts have been pursuing for decades – how do we gain business insight and answers to our most critical questions, and how do we get these answers so that we can respond to opportunities more rapidly than our competitors?

If the pace of economic recovery is still dragging in the IT sector, it seems that at least in the case of business analytics, things are looking up, according to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC).

Neudesic Pulse has teamed up with iQ for Business, provider of useable data for teams who want to base their decisions on solid info, to integrate social collaboration into the BI stream.

As business executives see the potential of technology to transform customer channels and the customer experience, their view of technology has leapfrogged conventional ideas of IT.”  Dave Aron, Vice President and Gartner Fellow

This statement and the study that it is based on indicate that CIOs are progressively favoring technologies like business intelligence (BI) and analytics, mobility and cloud computing in order to maximize customer experience management (CXM) by skewing business priorities related to customer satisfaction.

Red Hat has been pumping out new releases this month, but I suppose you don’t become the first open source vendor to reach a billion dollars in annual revenue by slacking. Last week Red Hat rolled out two new releases, a brand new in-memory database and changes to its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift. The week is just beginning and it has already announced new versions of three products.

This is the sixth article in this series “What is this SharePoint thing all about anyway?” In this installation we are going to look at the Business Intelligence features that are included in SharePoint 2010.