Business Intelligence News & Articles

Some have said that the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 (news, site) isn't really a big deal. Others disagree. If you are interested in its business intelligence capabilities and SharePoint integration, then you will fall into the first category. Let's have a look at what's new in the R2 release.

Last year, Microsoft released a PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services enabling PHP applications to to connect and leverage the various services offered in ADO.Net Data Services. Now they offer the ability to add some business intelligence capabilities to those same applications, thanks to SQL Server 2008.

Getting a handle on your social media use and feedback can a big challenge for enterprises -- one that SAS (news, site) has an answer for.

Most organizations have spent precious little energy on an analytics strategy, and even fewer have structured their organizations in such a way as to give analytics data the life it deserves.

Phil Kemelor of consulting firm Semphonic asserts these things and more. You -- yes, you there -- are probably not so good at using your data. And if you don't fix that soon, says he, the coming multi-channel analytics tsunami is going to overwhelm you. Either that or you'll just keep right on going, flying blind -- while your competitors continue refining.

Only a week after it announced the general availability of its business collaboration application StreamWork, SAP (news, site) has said that it is taking its on-demand business intelligence application to Japan using Fujitsu’s cloud environment.

At a time when Gartner (news, site) predicts companies will become obsessed with measuring the ROI of IT investments, Oracle (news, site) has just upgraded its cloud-based customer relationship management system (CRM) to include advanced business analytics and forecasting abilities to better measure and increase enterprise productivity.

After two months in beta SAP (news, site) has made their real-time business collaboration application StreamWork -- known as 12Sprints in beta -- generally available enabling up to 30 users to get together virtually to analyze data from across the enterprise and from different applications.

A little less than a year after IBM (news, site) announced the launch of its Business Analytics and Optimization Services, a client-focused consultancy to provide business analytics, it has announced the opening of a global hub in China for the development of new predictive analytics software.

IBM (news, site) has just announced the close of two acquisition deals made in January and February with National Interest Security Company (NISC) and Initiate respectively that will expand its business analytics abilities in the public sector arena and healthcare.

With search such a hot topic these days for both enterprise content management and web content management, it's probably not such a stretch that a provider of unified information access solutions, like Attivio (news, site), is doing so well.

Extending its information management and enterprise content management capabilities once again, IBM (news, site)  has just announced the acquisition of Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations.

Wouldn't it be nice if analytics were easier to understand? Quantivo thinks so, and their missing-link type solution – Quantivo 4 – attempts to achieve this by reducing data down to child’s play. 

IBM (news, site) has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of information management and analytics provider NISC. The financial details of the deal were not released.

The recently announced acquisition of Guardium by IBM (news, site) which is to be integrated into the Information Management Software portfolio, is the latest extension of IBM's business analytics strategy with investment to date reckoned to be close to US $12 billion.

“Imagine a virtual war room,” says SAP (news, site) of their upcoming potential Google Wave competitor. The private beta version of the cloud-based application (codenamed Constellation) is called 12Sprints, and promises to expedite the decision making process for business users with pre-defined tools.