Friday, March 12, 2010
Business intelligence (BI) diversity continues to expand as organizations take advantage of emerging technologies to help shift their BI initiatives from historical analysis to forward looking business management. Whether embedded analytics, operational dashboards, or best of breed analytics engines, business intelligence has come a long way to provide a shift in the way organizations use BI applications. No longer is it enough within companies to look at historical trends and what occurred to help drive what will happen. Organizations require insight into market trends, customer behavior, sales and marketing convergence, and the like. To really get the most out of this type of information and to identify general employee and company performance, it becomes essential to combine both structured and unstructured data.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
We’ve all heard the industry call: “Let’s get BI on every desktop.” Managers everywhere have been transfixed on putting more relevant data in the hands of information workers because they know that the right facts and data empower users to make impactful decisions with positive results. To do this, they must have access to analytical tools to interact with data in a more meaningful way.
As the first phase of bringing BI to the masses, canned reports with data extracted from line-of-business systems have had some success. Today’s information worker uses reports to create a snapshot of aggregated data that gives them the initial information to do their jobs correctly.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Teradata Corporation today announced that Discover Financial Services has tapped the family of Teradata appliances, in addition to its existing Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse, to support operational and non-traditional data warehousing applications.
As its demand for operational analytics and enterprise-wide information has grown, Discover has been able to respond by leveraging multiple elements and generations of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, including the new Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, which optimizes their analytical environment.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
FutureDash Corp., an innovative start-up business-to-business (B2B) software company, announces today that GreenDash™, a new software product allowing manufacturers of consumer networking and electronics equipment to quickly and easily add real-time energy monitoring capabilities to their products, now integrates with Google PowerMeter using the newly announced Google PowerMeter API.
The GreenDash server acts as an energy monitoring hub, collecting data in real-time from the smart meter and other compatible smart energy devices around the home. GreenDash then instantly relays it in real-time to its own personal energy dashboard clients via the user’s local area network (LAN) or the Internet. This will enable the homeowner to benefit from near real time awareness of changes in their energy consumption and to take appropriate action to reduce their energy usage.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Faster, better intelligence about physicians, competitors, and markets will now enable Sanvita LLC, a leading provider of Consumer Blood Glucose products, to optimize their strategic decision making ability. Pivotstream, the on-demand analytics and business intelligence provider, integrates prescriber data into a web-based analytics portal for Sanvita sales and management.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Information Builders, the independent leader in operational business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the availability of Performance Management Framework 5.2 (PMF 5.2), a comprehensive and customizable application suite for measuring and executing business strategies.
This latest release allows users to better manage business performance and strategy through custom, personalized dashboards, as well as the ability to integrate with Web 2.0 gadgets and other critical corporate performance management (CPM) applications.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Blaise Barrelet recently announced the launch of Anametrix, a next generation business analytics company whose solutions are delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS). Anametrix enables corporations to aggregate online, offline, and external databases to drive actionable business insights.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MeLLmo Inc. today announced it has added Roambi Pro to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. This integration with Google Apps™ user account and application data allows organizations to easily deploy the Roambi Pro mobile reporting app with increased efficiency and reduced administrative overhead.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Birst, the only full-featured BI suite to combine the economic benefits of the cloud with the freedom to securely host data in the cloud or on-premise, today announced a 300% increase in demand for its business intelligence software-as-a-service platform from the ISV community. Unique in its approach and capabilities, Birst offers a fully integrated suite of BI tools comprised of analytics, reporting and dashboarding, combined with ETL and Data Warehouse functionality, all delivered with a single, unified metadata architecture.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
QlikTech, a leading business intelligence company, today launched its QlikView analytics application for Android. QlikView for Android is the first business intelligence application available for the Android operating system. It leverages fully interactive drill down functionality to explore information, not just static reports that traditional BI mobile offerings are limited to provide.
The result is fast business answers in the hands of Android users worldwide. The Android platform takes full advantage of QlikView’s intuitive, interactive and flexible interface. QlikView for Android was developed in partnership with TAT, The Astonishing Tribe AB, who is well known for specializing in mobile user interfaces for companies like Google and Spotify.
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