Business Intelligence News & Articles

If IBM (news, site) has been busy on the acquisition front recently, it’s only a taste of things to come. Between now and 2015, according to CEO Sam Palmisano, Big Blue intends to spend a lot more -- about US$ 20 billion -- and double its profits over the same period.

In a move that is likely to cause Oracle (news, site) some discomfort, SAP (news, site) has announced that it has agreed to acquire Sybase for US$ 5.8 billion and in doing so extend its reach into the mobile business application market.

IBM (news, site) has just released an upgrade to the SPSS predictive analytics tool that will enable users to analyze text gathered from social media sources, including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds.

Millions of people across the globe are celebrating (or at least paying some degree of attention) as Microsoft rolls out the red carpet for the official launch of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) and Office 2010. There are a lot of changes in this latest version, much related to an improved user experience, some of it related to improved collaboration and business processes. 

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.