Business Intelligence News & Articles

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.

New technologies are emerging faster than ever. Companies who fail to recognize which technology is right for them could risk losing time, money and productivity. It would be one thing if innovation trickled down from the C-level suite, but we’ve learned that it’s more likely for ideas to come from empowered customers and employees. But what if there was another way to know which technologies to keep an eye on. Thanks to Forrester’s: The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch, there is.

As organizations seeks to gain competitive advantage, vendors like JasperSoft (news, site) need to come up with solutions that help them get information into the right hands quickly. JasperSoft's newest reporting solution is designed to do just that.

Corporate communicators have been lacking in the social media department for what seems like forever, and while that might have been okay in the past, there's less and less room for the socially inept in today's work force. This week we explored reasons behind the roadblock, as well as other struggles of giants such as Microsoft (Windows Phone 7, anybody?). 

Endeca Latitude is a new Business Intelligence (BI) product from Endeca Technologies (news, site) aiming to provide organizations with the ability to not only find the information they’re looking for, but to also understand it -- and make intelligent daily decisions based on that.

In this guest article Seth Grimes looks through the eyes of four industry experts, examining the relationships between content analytics, smart content and business intelligence. Do you know what content intelligence means for your organization?

Business Intelligence (BI) has gone social with the collaboration of respected open source companies JasperSoft (news, site) and eXo (news, site). The companies are providing the ability for JasperSoft’s BI applications to interact with eXo Platform 3.0 social features and gadget-based development.

Solutions provider Pagos offers a way for companies reliant on their old spreadsheets to kick them into the modern web-based age.