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- February 23, 2011
23 Feb'11
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 hits the streets
SAP today unveiled BusinessObjects 4.0, the highly anticipated update to its flagship BI and analytics platform.
- February 11, 2011
11 Feb'11
Gartner Magic Quadrant: Data discovery vendors take on BI heavyweights
Data discovery software vendors are stealing market share from the leading business intelligence (BI) players, according to Gartner.
- December 22, 2010
22 Dec'10
Orlando Magic scores big with advanced analytics software
The Orlando Magic basketball team is proving that advanced analytics software is becoming a real game changer for the sports business.
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- December 06, 2010
06 Dec'10
The top five predictive analytics strategy tips
Get the best predictive analytics strategy and planning tips from the recent Marketing Analytics 2010 conference in Boston.
- November 24, 2010
24 Nov'10
Efforts to expand business intelligence process slow to take hold
Many companies are looking to expand the business intelligence process beyond basic reporting and analysis. But broadening the use of a data warehouse and BI tools isn’t so easy.
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- October 25, 2010
25 Oct'10
IBM adds predictive analytics and social networking in Cognos 10
IBM unveiled the much-anticipated Cognos 10 business analytics platform as well as a new version of InfoSphere Server at its Information on Demand conference.
- October 05, 2010
05 Oct'10
Are packaged business analytics tools right for your organization?
Packaged business analytics tools can help guide the process of aligning business and IT goals, but there are some drawbacks, according to analysts and technology professionals.
- September 20, 2010
20 Sep'10
Survey: Poor data quality most common business intelligence problem
Poor data quality topped the list of most common obstacles standing between companies and successful business intelligence deployments, according to the BI Survey 9.
- September 15, 2010
15 Sep'10
New GUIs aim to make R open source analytics language more accessible
The R open source analytics programming language produces stunning data visualizations but requires a statistician’s expertise. Revolution Analytics is trying to change that.
- September 08, 2010
08 Sep'10
Dresner mobile BI survey reveals interest, trepidation
Security risks and form factor limitations top the list of concerns around mobile business intelligence, according to a new survey by Howard Dresner.
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- August 24, 2010
24 Aug'10
Creating an advanced data analytics business culture: Tips and advice
Data analytics can help drive better business decisions, according to users and analysts. But creating an analytics business culture usually requires high-level executive support.
- August 18, 2010
18 Aug'10
Data analytics team’s needs: a business home, leeway on tools and data
While it may be tempting to place an advanced data analytics team within IT or a BI group, experts say most successful analytics initiatives take a more decentralized approach.
- August 17, 2010
17 Aug'10
Analytics skills in demand -- and analytics pros demanding top salaries
Data analytics skills are in high demand, so organizations looking to start a business analytics program and staff up an analytics team had better be ready to open their checkbooks.
- August 05, 2010
05 Aug'10
Gartner: Data pattern recognition turns data growth into an asset
Gartner’s Bill Gassman says organizations should tap pattern recognition to make the most of growing data volumes.
- July 29, 2010
29 Jul'10
Interest in mobile business intelligence lacking despite vendor push
Vendor marketing campaigns notwithstanding, end users just aren’t that interested in mobile business intelligence applications.
- July 27, 2010
27 Jul'10
Setting key performance indicators can boost BI software user adoption
By focusing on just a handful of key performance indicators (KPIs), execs at York Wallcovering dramatically increased BI user adoption and saved millions.
- July 13, 2010
13 Jul'10
Gartner: Enterprise BI strategy rarely a one-size-fits-all approach
For large enterprises with multiple business divisions, a one-size-fits-all approach to business intelligence rarely fits the bill, according to Gartner.
- July 07, 2010
07 Jul'10
Latest Oracle BI software tries to close the ‘insight to action’ loop
The latest iteration of Oracle’s Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition aims to close the loop between gaining insight and taking action
- June 28, 2010
28 Jun'10
In-database predictive analytics helps marketer predict consumer behavior
In-database analytics -- the blending of data warehousing and predictive analytics – helps Catalina Marketing foretell consumer behavior.
- June 22, 2010
22 Jun'10
Gartner: The six elements of cloud analytics and SaaS BI
The term ‘cloud analytics’ means different things to different people. To gain any advantage from it, organizations must first agree on a definition, according to Gartner.
- June 18, 2010
18 Jun'10
Poor spreadsheet management can doom BI, CPM projects
Companies that don’t get a handle on spreadsheet management risk dooming their BI and CPM projects that rely on Excel.
- June 15, 2010
15 Jun'10
IBM to acquire Web analytics firm Coremetrics
IBM announced it is acquiring Web analytics vendor Coremetrics, the latest in a series of moves by Big Blue to capitalize on the growing business analytics market.
- June 11, 2010
11 Jun'10
Collaborative decision making software: The future of BI?
Newly emerging collaborative decision making software platforms should help ensure that BI deployments really do lead to better business decisions.
- June 08, 2010
08 Jun'10
Microsoft highlights BI plans at Business Intelligence Conference 2010
The Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference kicked off with a look at the company’s plans to bring BI to business users.
- June 07, 2010
07 Jun'10
Key IT roles on healthcare business intelligence project teams
Learn about healthcare business intelligence project teams and the key IT roles that a BI team needs to include in order to succeed on deployments of healthcare BI software.
- June 01, 2010
01 Jun'10
How to improve business intelligence performance with BI automation
Get tips on how to improve business intelligence performance with the help of BI automation. You’ll learn about the value of BI automation, potential roadblocks and more.
- April 14, 2010
14 Apr'10
Gartner BI Summit: Wave the white flag on using Excel for business intelligence
Gartner analysts and BI Summit attendees said efforts to stop Excel business intelligence uses are futile.
- April 01, 2010
01 Apr'10
SAP StreamWork latest merging of collaboration portal and BI software
SAP StreamWork is the latest entrant in the collaborative decision-making technology market.
- January 29, 2010
29 Jan'10
Gartner Magic Quadrant: CPM software split between 'integrators' and 'innovators'
Find out why Gartner says that innovation in corporate performance management (CPM) – a market dominated by mega-vendors -- is being led by best-of-breed vendors.
- January 04, 2010
04 Jan'10
Integrating BI and BPM software can improve business process reporting
The addition of business intelligence (BI) capabilities to BPM software could make the automation of business processes more intelligent and, ultimately, more efficient.
- December 01, 2009
01 Dec'09
BI project management tips for implementation success
Get business intelligence (BI) project management tips to help ensure a successful implementation. Learn how to gather user requirements, prevent scope creep, overcome common PM challenges and more.
- November 16, 2009
16 Nov'09
Seven secrets to business intelligence (BI) success
At the fall 2009 TDWI World Conference, keynote speaker Cindi Howson shared her seven secrets to business intelligence success. Read these BI tips to find out whether your company is doing all it can to get the most out of its BI system.
- September 17, 2009
17 Sep'09
Business intelligence in retail: Special report
In this report on business intelligence in retail, learn about retail industry challenges, and case studies of how retailers are implementing and managing BI.
- September 17, 2009
17 Sep'09
Business intelligence in financial services: Special report
In this report on business intelligence in financial services, learn about BI challenges in financial services and how banks are implementing and managing BI.
- June 15, 2009
15 Jun'09
In-memory technology promises faster, more flexible BI and data analysis
In-memory technology could make business intelligence platforms and data warehouses quicker to deploy and easier to use, according to analysts and vendors.
- March 03, 2009
03 Mar'09
The Role of Business Intelligence in Clinical Trial Automation
Richard Phillips describes the automation of clinical trials and describes a solution that is mostly possible with today's technologies and standards - with one big "if."
- July 09, 2008
09 Jul'08
Five keys to hiring (good) business intelligence professionals
Learn how to find, qualify and hire business intelligence (BI) professionals. Get a list of core questions to ask candidates, and learn the biggest mistake to avoid when filling BI jobs.
- May 15, 2008
15 May'08
Business intelligence software product purchasing criteria
Learn what questions to ask when purchasing business intelligence (BI) software products. Get expert BI buying criteria and vendor selection advice in this BI software buying guide.
- May 13, 2008
13 May'08
Text Analytics Accuracy: Requirements and Reality
Accuracy is a frequent concern when working with text; the accuracy question is similar to the data quality issue in business intelligence and data warehousing.
- April 07, 2008
07 Apr'08
Howard Dresner predicts the future of business intelligence
Howard Dresner lends his take on the business intelligence market from the floor of the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago.
- April 03, 2008
03 Apr'08
Understanding the top business intelligence data integration techniques
Learn the pros and cons of the top business intelligence data integration methods, find out common challenges and hear expert advice for BI-data integration strategies.
- April 01, 2008
01 Apr'08
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit: Embed BI within business processes
The success of business intelligence increasingly depends on how well BI is embedded within business processes, said a keynote speaker at the Gartner BI Summit.
- March 25, 2008
25 Mar'08
The Role of Business Intelligence in Managing Compliance
A properly implemented business intelligence framework allows the enterprise to use business rules and repeatable processes to automate many routine regulatory tasks, effectively aligning the requirements with enterprise processes.
- March 13, 2008
13 Mar'08
Gartner: Business intelligence ROI, value a matter of mind over money
Business intelligence (BI) investments don't naturally lend themselves to an easily calculable ROI, but measuring the value of BI is possible, according to Gartner's Bill Hostmann.
- March 06, 2008
06 Mar'08
A Six Sigma Initiative for Business Intelligence
Applying Six Sigma principles to business intelligence requires strong management support and a recognized Six Sigma action program.
- March 05, 2008
05 Mar'08
Putting the Business Intelligence into Corporate Social Responsibility
Business intelligence (BI) methodologies are natural partners with companies wanting to become better corporate citizens and leaders for corporate social responsibility.
- February 20, 2008
20 Feb'08
Relevance of Leadership in Performance Management
Clear leadership is an imperative in successful performance management and business intelligence deployments, from both the internal project team and the technology vendor.
- January 17, 2008
17 Jan'08
Top Three Enablers for Scalable Business Intelligence
This article examines the top three enablers of business intelligence scalability: holistic data models, technology tools, and a combination of people and processes.
- January 10, 2008
10 Jan'08
Improving Business Intelligence: The Six Sigma Way
This article describes a rigorous, audit-based approach to achieving business intelligence excellence.
- January 09, 2008
09 Jan'08
Mapping the Data Landscape
A particularly interesting concept that has recently emerged is the notion of the physical data landscape and the necessity of mapping it.
- December 18, 2007
18 Dec'07
The Clinical Data Pipeline
The Analytical Healthcare Repository (AHR) is a collaboration framework to centralize the management of patient information for analytical purposes.
- August 21, 2007
21 Aug'07
Mining Text in a Retail Enterprise
Much has been written and marketed about the compelling need to analyze unstructured data. Learn what retailers are REALLY doing with text mining to drive business benefits.
- July 26, 2007
26 Jul'07
Categorizing business intelligence users
Part 1 of this article introduced the Baseline Pyramid, which offers a BI taxonomy according to the type of usage and the maturity of the data. In Part 2, we spin the pyramid in order to relate this evolution to classes of knowledge workers.
- May 24, 2007
24 May'07
Finding hidden data patterns and correlations: The beer and diapers example
Once data patterns have been discovered, analysts must determine whether the correlations are incidental, accidental or in a cause-and-effect relationship.
- May 17, 2007
17 May'07
Content intelligence: Content management meets business intelligence
In this podcast, Gerry Brown of Bloor Research explains "content intelligence" -- a combination of business intelligence and content management that helps companies leverage unstructured data.
- May 17, 2007
17 May'07
Call centers on the front lines
Should there be a call center information governance strategy?
- May 03, 2007
03 May'07
HP's business intelligence and data warehouse plans: A data discussion with HP BI VP Ben Barnes
Listen to a podcast with HP vice president, Ben Barnes discussing Hewlett-Packard's business intelligence strategy and HP Neoview data warehouse.
- April 05, 2007
05 Apr'07
Business intelligence case study: Gartner lauds police for crime-fighting BI
In this business intelligence (BI) case study, learn why police technology in Richmond, Va. includes a BI implementation worthy of a Gartner award.
- March 21, 2007
21 Mar'07
Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence
The future of business intelligence in the enterprise may lie in the convergence of serious games with virtual worlds.
- March 20, 2007
20 Mar'07
Business Intelligence for Revenue-Generating Processes
This article describes the use of detailed and specific business information about customers' past purchasing behavior to grow revenue and retain profitable customers.
- March 02, 2007
02 Mar'07
Business intelligence ROI: Five keys to justifying BI investments
Analysts from Gartner and Bloor, and an experienced end user, recommend best practices for calculating the hard ROI metrics and soft benefits of BI investments.
- December 11, 2006
11 Dec'06
Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Business intelligence and business performance management are both growing and will continue to show strong momentum for some time to come.
- November 02, 2006
02 Nov'06
Why project management is key to operational business intelligence
The best infrastructure in the world will not deliver the desired results from an operational business intelligence application unless the very best planning and management of the project are in place and are practiced.
- November 02, 2006
02 Nov'06
Excel in enterprises: How to deal with data integrity
Microsoft Excel in the enterprise can present problems, but there are tools and techniques for managing Excel data integrity that keep both business users and IT departments happy.
- October 12, 2006
12 Oct'06
The different types of operational data stores
What are the differences between an enterprise ODS and an e-business Web-based ODS?
- October 05, 2006
05 Oct'06
Clustering, SMP and MPP in Very Large Data Warehouses (VLDWs)
This article presents Oracle RAC and its use as a multiterabyte warehousing solution.
- October 03, 2006
03 Oct'06
Best practices for business intelligence reporting and matrices
With a matrix, data can be grouped and structured in ways that are not possible in a standard report table, but does this result in too much of a good thing?
- August 31, 2006
31 Aug'06
Insight into Business Process Visibility
What is business process visibility - and how is it achieved?
- July 20, 2006
20 Jul'06
Compliance and BI: Same mission, different approaches
Both BI and compliance initiatives are used to help manage a company's assets. But they offer completely different approaches to the same goal.
- July 20, 2006
20 Jul'06
Business intelligence case study: Hospital BI helps healthcare
In this healthcare business intelligence case study, see how Jefferson Medical Center uses business intelligence software at the hospital to improve productivity and patient care.
- July 18, 2006
18 Jul'06
Social network analysis and business intelligence
Business intelligence must be transmitted, communicated and shared in order to be useful and actionable.
- July 11, 2006
11 Jul'06
TableLens: A Clear Window for Viewing Multivariate Data
Correlations and exceptions in multivariate data become clearly visible when explored using TableLens.
- July 06, 2006
06 Jul'06
Embedded business intelligence: Open source or commercial?
Embedded business intelligence is a new requirement for applications. Learn why developers choose to integrate commercial or open source business intelligence software.
- June 06, 2006
06 Jun'06
Service Level Agreements for Data
As more emphasis is placed on data and more data is provided by or handled outside of the institution's control, SLAs should be in place for vendor-supplied data.
- April 06, 2006
06 Apr'06
Four Key Elements of E-Government
When properly and thoughtfully implemented, e-government benefits both the government and its citizens.
- March 16, 2006
16 Mar'06
Enterprise data asset inventory: Database tables
With database tables, there is much more to understand than just the number of rows and columns.
- March 16, 2006
16 Mar'06
SAS snaps up Veridiem for MRM
Business intelligence giant SAS has bolstered its customer intelligence platform by acquiring Veridiem, a maker of marketing resource management (MRM) software.
- January 23, 2006
23 Jan'06
Simple business rules for business intelligence
For organizations to effectively eliminate confusion, they must employ standard definitions to describe simple business rules.
- December 20, 2005
20 Dec'05
Statistical Analysis in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Organizations can provide and get value from statistical analysis without an in-house consultant with a PhD in statistics.
- November 15, 2005
15 Nov'05
Business Intelligence Plays a Major Role in the Entertainment Industry
Business intelligence can mean the difference between staying relevant or becoming obsolete.
- November 15, 2005
15 Nov'05
Choosing a Data Integration Solution: ETL, EAI and EII
Although choosing a data integration product can be difficult, finding the right one can cut overhead costs and labor.
- October 26, 2005
26 Oct'05
The Deming business intelligence workout
Much like the physical therapy process, business intelligence and data warehousing can use Deming's "Plan, Do, Study, Act" cycle for improving performance.
- October 24, 2005
24 Oct'05
How Business Intelligence Can Improve Demand Management
Manufacturing companies are beginning to realize that they cannot contain the increasing need to deliver more insightful business intelligence across their supply chain operations.
- October 11, 2005
11 Oct'05
BLAST Sequences Aid in Genomics and Proteomics
History of BLAST and the key issues surrounding its use in sequence analysis.
- February 10, 2005
10 Feb'05
The data warehouse and customer profitability
This is the first article of a five-part series on competitive advantage and the data warehouse.
- October 07, 2004
07 Oct'04
Metadata, Business Rules & Semantics
Data quality can benefit from a unified theory of information intelligence.
- September 30, 2004
30 Sep'04
The army and knowledge management
Army Knowledge Management (AKM) moves the US Army to superiority in the battlefield.
- September 16, 2004
16 Sep'04
Data Warehouses for Medium-Sized Companies
Can a medium-sized company afford a data warehouse? What is the business case?
- August 17, 2004
17 Aug'04
Business Intelligence – Five Factors For Success
Business Intelligence - You know you need it but how do you get started?
- August 17, 2004
17 Aug'04
Business intelligence and e-government
To citizens, contractors, taxpayers or civil servants the promise of e-government is to be able to search for information in a self-serve mode
- August 02, 2004
02 Aug'04
Business intelligence in the federal government
Proper analysis and accurate interpretation of data are essential "In God we trust; all others bring data."