Business Intelligence News & Articles

What, the good ol' TIP, test in production, methodology isn’t good enough anymore? Apparently not. QMetry, provider of test case management solutions, and open source business intelligence platform provider Jaspersoft (news, site) announced integration of JasperReports Server Professional into the testing platform. The combined solution will allow organizations to actually see if developers are really “almost done” with that last round of code changes.

Today, open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider Nuxeo announced an integration with Eclipse’s (news, site) open source Business Intelligence Report Tool (BIRT), enabling users to create, ahem, intelligent reports based on data in the Enterprise CMS platform.

The recently established business analytics vendor Anametrix has announced that it has secured another round of funding, this time through private investor Walter G. Kortschak, who specializes in emerging technology companies, and is probably best known for leading Summit's US$ 30 million equity investment in WebSideStory.

The reinvention of the traditional search engine has kept many companies busy. And while consumer search engines such as Google and Bing may reign supreme, within the enterprise, search queries often require more substance and hearty discovery. Especially because the enterprise doesn’t always know what it knows, searching for information can be laborious, increasing the need for an enterprise search tool that can penetrate massive amounts of data.

It the wake of yesterday’s AIIM State of the ECM Industry report, where we noted that many enterprises over the course of this year are looking to break the boundaries between content repositories, it is opportune that HP (news, site) should be launching a strategy to provide holistic information management by providing an overview of content across the enterprise.

Nobody is interested in documentation, tools, videos, blogs or Twitter for their own sake. Their interest in these things is only in the context of the task they need to complete.

A commercial open source company is releasing easy-to-use business intelligence (BI). Many of you are probably waiting for a sarcastic punch line, because the concept seems a little unbelievable. Isn’t open source free? An easy-to-use tool in a market known for requiring US$ 200-per-hour consultants to design reports? There’s no joke. Pentaho (news, site) has announced the general access (GA) release of version 3.8 of its BI Suite Enterprise Edition that focuses on delivering users an easy platform to build more engaging and interactive business intelligence solutions.

If your IT department needs justification for deploying iPads in the enterprise, here it is in the form of Bomgar's remote control support app.

With a scheduled release of 2010, SAP (news, site) has finally announced the ramped-up version of its updated business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 portfolio.

Information Builders (news, site) offer business intelligence for enterprises, but can it transfer that data to the small screen of your smartphone successfully?

Over the past 12 months, there has been a lot of movement in the business intelligence market from both established vendors and new entrants, making it difficult to distinguish old trends and future possibilities.

Gartner, however, has released its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence, in which a number of themes have become a lot clearer. Over the coming years, Gartner said, ease-of-use, complexity of analysis, scale and performance, and total cost of ownership will continue to dominate BI market requirements.

At JasperWorld yesterday, CEO Brian Gentile referred to a new IT World, one that is "characterized by a heightened sensitivity to cost, a new technology stack that includes Cloud and Big Data and the consumerization of enterprise IT." This is clearly reflected in the evolution of the Jaspersoft business intelligence platform.

Wende Cover, director of marketing at Microstrategy, expects the Mobile Internet to dwarf all previous Information Technology waves with its sheer size (number of users) and convenience. As a result, mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad will become the de facto way that companies access business information (BI). That’s why many businesses are recognizing the value of empowering their executives, workforce, suppliers and business partners with actionable information at all times, not just while they are at their desktop computers.

The phenomenal rise of social media has created a huge opportunity from a Business Intelligence perspective on two accounts. One, due to the sheer volume of content being generated on social media platforms. Second, due to the potential that this data holds for getting transformed into business critical insights.

This week in the GRC space, there were significant releases from both EMC and IBM’s new acquisition OpenPages. Compliance vendor Compliance 360 looks ahead in 2011 to how the directors of major corporations will react to GRC over the year, and open source OpenLogic reports record sales driven by its new open source compliance offering.