Business Intelligence News & Articles

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.

While it normally takes companies a considerable amount of time to close acquisition deals, HP has closed the Fortify deal in almost record time and is already looking at how to integrate security analytics products. IBM has also been buying security for business analytics and if you thought Agility and GRC are like chalk and cheese, think again!

At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle announced a major upgrade to its Fusion applications. Let's have a look.

Another week and another IBM (news, site) deal. This time Big Blue continues to splurge in the analytics market with the acquisition of its long-time strategic partner Netezza for US$ 1.7 billion, which brings high-performance analytics to its already considerable analytics stable.

Here's something fun: SAP's first ever virtual reality show. An agency called Page One officially launched an interactive campaign for SAP (news, site), showcasing the power of Web engagement, social media marketing, and what happens when experts put their dukes up. 

Only days after IBM announced the acquisition of document capture vendor Datacap, Big Blue has snatched Unica (news, site) -- a marketing management developer that automates, manages and accelerates core business processes across marketing channels.

This week the mobile enterprise makes a case for business intelligence.

For those that were wondering how long it would take SAP to put the screws on Sybase after the US$ 5.8 billion deal was closed in May, well the answer is immediately.

While there have been a number of financial results releases over the past couple of weeks, one of the more interesting is from SAP (news, site),  not only because its software business is often used as a market indicator, but also because of the recent closure of the massive Sybase deal.

The acquisition of Sybase (news, site) by SAP (news, site) which was first announced in May, has passed the final hurdle after the European Commission gave it regulatory approval on Tuesday evening.

With the deadline for the deal fast approaching, the German software giant extended its offer deadline for its US$ 5.8 billion cash offer for Sybase shares pending approval. With EU approval now in the bag, the deal is due to finally close next Monday.

Last October, DAM developer MediaBeacon (news, site) hired Tom Rieger, ex-IBM, Informix and FileNet director. At the time we asked what he was going to do there. The integration of MediaBeacon’s DAM platform into IBM’s (news, site) Lotus WCM and WebSphere Portal probably helps answer that.