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February 22, 2008

Microsoft makes its BI move as SAP falters

Microsoft has finally broken through that BI glass ceiling, but what is happening with SAP???

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Business intelligence software: Top five headlines

The business intelligence software market can be challenging to navigate. It can also be time-consuming to stay up to date on the ever-changing landscape of vendors, software and trends.

Techslog has highlighted some Headlines we will drill into........Market maturity and Microsoft lead Gartner's latest business intelligence report.

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June 14, 2007

Companywide Business Intelligence, really?

Enterprises are giving more users access to business intelligence tools, Optimize Magazine believes the next 2 years will be pivotal…..

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April 24, 2007

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FAIL WITHOUT C-LEVEL OWNERSHIP

Business intelligence definitely can't be an IT project. I don't think it has much value without the business.
Michael Carper
divisional vice president of technology operations, Coldwater Creek Inc.

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March 21, 2007

What do companies want from a BI Vendor?

Information Week conducted a survey of 500 business technology professionals; see what they have to say about what they want from a BI vendor.

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March 16, 2007

Vendors Introduce 'Affordable' Business-Intelligence Systems

Business Objects, IBM, and others are putting together packages designed to take the bite out of costly BI. Cost and integration are a big problem for businesses, according to new InformationWeek research.

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March 06, 2007

Oracle did it again! An Acquisition of Hyperion and the BI Market is on Fire!

Oracle aquired Hyperion as the latest event in the dynamic Business Intelligence market. The market is exploding and there's more going on than meets the eye......

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February 15, 2007

Business Intelligence Gets Collaborative

Over the next several years, expect to see the business-intelligence, collaboration and knowledge-management segments converge. Likewise, expect to see such interactive Web 2.0 technologies as AJAX, blogs and wikis revolutionize the business intelligence experience.

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February 05, 2007

BI Vendor Target's Mid Market

Business Objects, itself rumored as an acquisition target by Oracle, is offering software for midsize businesses named Crystal Decisions, a company it acquired in 2003.

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November 13, 2006

BI Becoming Strategic Corporate Asset

IT must gain user buy-in, expand capabilities of tools, panel says

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November 08, 2006

BearingPoint Wins Oracle® North America Titan Partner Solution of the Year Award

Business Intelligence Work Recognized

McLean, Va., October 23, 2006 – BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced it received the Oracle® North America Titan Partner Award 2006 in the category of Business Intelligence Solution for solutions BearingPoint has provided to clients over the last year.

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November 07, 2006

Cognos Targets Banks' Customer Data With Latest Performance Blueprint

The new software lets bank managers tap into customer information to analyze behavior, revenue streams, and profitability by customer or groups of customers.

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November 06, 2006

Hyperion Enhances BPM Upgrade With Better Integration, Data Sharing

The tool targets power business intelligence users, enabling them to view departmental data and write the business rules for linking intersecting data. The company has also licensed technology from Informatica to connect System 9.3 to transactional systems.

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November 02, 2006

IBM to acquire SAS?

Who wants to be private? Seems like it might not be SAS.

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Manufacturers Find Business Intelligence Elusive

Real-time data is the key to greater operations visibility

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BearingPoint Launches Corporate Performance Management Solution for Oracle Business Intelligence

BearingPoint today leveraged its 10-year commitment to developing innovative corporate performance management systems to unveil Corporate Performance Management, a premier global services solution integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence.

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Business Objects 'not up for sale'

Despite evidence that Business Objects SA was once a takeover target of Oracle Corp., the business intelligence specialist has clung to its independence through a period of consolidation in the software industry. And that's how Business Objects Chief Executive Officer John Schwarz wants things to stay.

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IBM, health group sign deal to mine patient data to improve care

Geisinger Health System and IBM said today that they will partner to develop a system for integrating patient data with billing, claims, financial and other systems as part of an effort to improve patient care.

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Exec Says IBM Seeks Simplification, Not Lock-in

Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management at IBM, spoke with Computerworld last week after the company announced its Information Server bundle of tools. Excerpts from the interview follow:

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QlikTech looks to broaden access to BI data

Business intelligence vendor QlikTech International AB this week is set to unveil a new pricing model geared to help companies offer an unlimited number of users access to data analysis and reporting.

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Business intelligence at age 17

The father of 'business intelligence' looks back at the term he coined -- and forward to what may be the next big thing.

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