Business Intelligence News & Articles

JasperSoft (news, site) has released the latest version of their commercial open source business intelligence platform and with it comes a new UI Framework that will enable you to embed BI into your own web application.

According to new research from Gartner, significant changes in the Business Intelligence (BI) market indicate that by 2014 most enterprises will possess BI that is IT-owned and report focused. The result -- a change in how enterprises access BI and where they buy it from. 

This week, the mobile enterprise is warned of increased risk of security threats and advised on the many landscapes affected by increased mobility.

More good news for knowledge workers who like to create their own business intelligence reports. Information Builders is offering a tool that enables non-technical users the ability to create and/or customize their reports, all with a few button clicks.

Actuate, a supplier of a Business Intelligence (BI) technology platform called ActuateOne (and the originator of the open-source BI platform BIRT), believes that the iPad and other similar devices are fundamentally changing BI.

The iPad has been well received by the general consumer market, but analysts are seeing a business market for it and other tablets -- including business intelligence and CRM.

Collaboration, analytics and the cloud. What do these three things have in common? They demonstrate Infosys Technologies commitment to providing solutions that have high business value and leverage an environment that is gaining in popularity: Salesforce.com.

Mobile business intelligence vendor DSPanel has just added an iPad application to their already extensive range of BI products. As part of the company’s Performance Canvas mobile analytics products, the new functionality enables users access to their analytics, including data visualization through the Safari browser.

Everyone knows business analytics is one of IBM’s (news, site) main market segments and with growing volumes of data and the need for extended storage space, analytics is essential. As a result, IBM has just unveiled a new storage architecture.

It’s not exactly clear why Microsoft’s upcoming release of CRM Dynamics 2011 did not provide out-of-the-box social media monitoring, but it didn’t. In response, Siddhartha Rai, program manager of business intelligence with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is showing the way it could be done.

While there is a general consensus about the need to manage the explosion of data across an enterprise, there are many different views as to how that should happen. Texas-based Calpont has upgraded its InfiniDB to v2.0 to now include fast data loading and improved query response times.

Cloud-based business integration software provider Hubspan has just added new analytics software to its cloud-based integration platform WebSpan. This software, the company says, will provide all kinds of business intelligence from B2B integration processes.

In the SMB space this week, HyperOffice has launched a new cloud-based project management offering, while Google looks to release a new online advertising product.

With only two months left to run in 2010, the first slew of predictions of the top technologies named by Gartner have arrived. While social computing, cloud computing and mobile applications make the list, so do the less glamorous areas of storage and analytics.

For a long time now, users have been asking what Big Blue plans on doing with all the acquisitions in business intelligence and analytics space (news, site) it made.

The release of Cognos 10, which combines social networking, collaboration, analytics and targets mobile workers, goes some way to answering that.