Business Intelligence News & Articles

Open-source business intelligence (BI) provider, Jaspersoft, is on the move and it’s touching. The company announced the release of the latest version of its BI Suite, and the focus is all about mobile and touch-centric environments.

Even with the Labour Day weekend there have been some notable nuggets in the GRC space. IBM extended the reach of its GRC offerings with the acquisition of Algorithmics, Compliance 360 adds new elements to its GRC offering, Norton updates its anti-malware software with its new 2012 range, while it also gives an estimate of the cost of malware attacks globally every year.

KnowledgeTree joins the list of companies that are now providing analytics to help existing and future companies deal with the massive mountain of data that is entering their repositories daily. Its release today of analytics offerings, along with some smart tools, should extend its reach and add another market differentiator.

Just as everyone was grabbing their hats and coats, and running out the door for the Labor Day weekend, IBM announced its second acquisition in as many days. This time it was Canadian-based Algorithmics for the relatively paltry sum of US$ 387 million, and again it is in the analytics space.

IBM’s Big Data portfolio just got bigger. Big Blue has announced that it is to buy UK-based i2, which provides intelligence and analytics for crime prevention and fraud.

It used to be that forecasting was reserved for weather and stocks, but thanks to Cloud9’s new Sales Performance Suite, which features a new forecasting solution, users have the ability to actively managing their sales performance in an effort to accurately forecast sales.

There has been speculation over the past five days as to the significance of HP’s announcement that it intends to buy UK-based Autonomy for US$ 10.7 billion. Questions over the wisdom of the deal are rife, but ultimately, the answer to the general question as to what it is all about was provided by HP CEO Léo Apotheker in the initial announcement.

In recent months, the Facebook team has been on a quest to pack more information into the homepage. The latest composition removes the Most Recent tab from the news feed and replaces it with a real-time activity feed inside the Chat sidebar, slamming users with more information whether they like it or not. 

I recently attended and spoke at the SharePoint Saturday: The Conference this August 2011. My presentation was around real world applications on SharePoint: ideas, trends we’re seeing and actually uses. I also had the opportunity to speak with several experts in the field, and some current and future consumers of SharePoint. Here’s what most of the buzz was about.

Recently, we’ve seen a number of digital marketing intelligence vendors target audiences intentionally based on their behaviors. First Nielsen, then Bizo, now eXelate.

Before you begin adding customization tools to SharePoint to create a solution for your business, you must understand your company’s business problem. In this article, I cover a few important areas you need to address before you look at technology.

Open source business intelligence provider Pentaho (news, site) has announced that it is supporting substantially more big data sources natively such as the latest distribution of Hadoop and many other NoSQL sources. The expansion of data sources should make it easier for Pentaho’s users to connect these repositories and analyze their ever-expanding stores of data.

Australian based enterprise content management provider, Elcom (news, site), has a released a super secret (well not that secret) preview of what’s coming in its 7.5 release of CommunityManager.NET at the end of August. We couldn’t resist the urge to look.

IBM (news, site) is looking to build on its recent acquisitions. In recent weeks, we’ve seen it announce the release of products built around Coremetrics and Unica on one hand, and Netezza on the other. It has now announced a new services lab that will enable clients to expand their real-time analytics and software automation products.

Attivio (news, site) announced modules for its Active Intelligence Engine (AIE). The new modules enhance Attivio’s AIE platform with better support for big data and recommendation and classification engines.