Business Intelligence News & Articles

Tag-management software provider, Ensighten has announced a partnership with iJento, a digital multi-channel customer intelligence solutions provider. Through this partnership, the two companies will combine solutions to provide marketers with a full picture of customer interactions across channels. 

A disconnect exists between digital marketing and IT that's fueled in part by software promising IT-free solutions. But the truth isn't that simple.

As 2013 surges ahead, companies looking for mobile marketing analytics providers might have to add Anametrix to their lists because the company has released mobile app versions for the iOS, Android and Blackberry systems.

Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

Last week, we saw that the worldwide growth in analytics revenues would be pushed by developments in big data, social business and mobile spaces. Running parallel to this, Gartner says growth will be in sales of business intelligence software.

The latest Gartner's Business Intelligence and Analytics Magic Quadrant portrays a mature market that has a wide variety of vendors mostly working on getting companies to move up from descriptive analytics to the next step of diagnostics.

As a precursor to its upcoming conferences in the US and Australia on actionable analytics, Gartner has just published a new research report that identifies three trends that will push users towards analytics adoption in the medium term.

This ain't Larry Ellison's locked down world. Unlike some other industry vendors, SAP isn't aiming to be the alpha and omega of Corporate IT. Instead the Enterprise application turned database platform provider chooses to focus on what it does best and builds deep partnerships with others in the stack.

IBM has announced the acquisition of Star Analytics, which in turn will give IBM more specialized and more efficient big data collection and analytics tools. 

Facebook is the model of customer acquisition, Alex Yoder, CEO of Webtrends said in his Webtrends Engage Conference keynote. Forty three percent of B2B businesses use it everyday. Social media is helping marketers find customers, but more importantly, close deals.

For the last quarter of the year, IBM has announced a set of results that should keep investors happy, if not ecstatic. This is the end of Ginni Rometty's first year at the helm, a year in which IBM made record earnings and in which the first step of a five year transition plan has been put into place.

It’s been a slow start this year in terms of predictions and lists. Normally at this stage in January we have to stop looking at them. There are many possible reasons why this year is different, the most likely reason however could be the economic uncertainty and how businesses will deal with it this year. That said, Gartner has still been able to identity a top ten digital technology wish-list for 2013.

Web-based business intelligence provider, LogiXML has released the newest version of its information platform, Logi Info v11.

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night.

Attivio and QlikTech, a business intelligence company, have announced that they will be working together to improve the analytics field.