Using business intelligence to make better business decisions
"An important thing to remember for user buy-in is that you have to launch a BI program that is business-relevant and focused on a solving a pain-point or realizing a new benefit," says Sandeep...
View ArticleWanted: BI stars
Many businesses are looking to train or hire BI specialists who will be able to cull valuable insights from vast amounts of data. But some are finding that recruiting people with the right mix of IT...
View ArticleBehind with BI? You're not alone.
If you feel as though your organization is behind the curve with business intelligence, you’ve got plenty of company.read more
View ArticleNew on the iPad: The story of business intelligence
Mobile business intelligence app developer Roambi wants to marry the excitement of a magazine narrative with the dryness of business intelligence data on the iPad. The goal is to tell the story behind...
View ArticleMicrostrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI
Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of Microsoft Excel with a new service, Cloud Personal, that is being offered at no...
View ArticleBuild BI tools fast with agile approach
There's heightened interest in agile BI, a rapid development methodology for creating BI systems that involves the end user as early and as often as possible -- and thus saves time and effort.read more
View ArticleAmazon can now use analytics on competitors' ads
Amazon is keeping its friends close and its enemies closer.read more
View ArticleThe value of VOC systems
About 20 months ago, Charming Shoppes launched a customer insights project to "deliver actionable customer and market research and analysis to the business," says Jeffrey Liss, who headed up the...
View ArticleIBM takes its BI capabilities into the data center
IBM is taking its business analytics capabilities down a new path by making them available to IT organizations to monitor and predict issues with systems and processes.read more
View ArticleWeaving BI into the corporate fabric
To get the most out of business intelligence projects, companies need a top-down commitment that permeates the entire organizational culture. At 1-800-Flowers.com, for example, achieving pervasive BI...
View ArticleMake BI business as usual
To get the most out of business intelligence projects, companies need a top-down commitment that permeates the entire organizational culture. At 1-800-Flowers.com, for example, achieving pervasive BI...
View ArticleThe challenges of business intelligence: Gartner BI summit
Business intelligence (BI) investment will continue to be driven by IT in the future, but finding people with the right BI skills will be an ongoing challenge, according to a Gartner BI and Information...
View ArticleUsing business intelligence to create better health decisions
With IT's leadership, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is harnessing billions of data points to improve outcomes and freeze costsread more
View ArticleSAS promises pervasive BI with new tool
SAS Institute this week unveiled new technology designed to allow a broad swath of enterprise users to do advanced analytics on massive volumes of data.read more
View ArticleForrester: Push BI vendors for details on Hadoop integration
Enterprises should ask a lot of questions when a vendor touts its business intelligence products as being fully integrated with Hadoop, Forrester analyst Boris Evelson warned.read more
View ArticleThis company is one of the first to offer business intelligence software by...
Open source business intelligence company Jaspersoft is one of the first to offer its analytics software from the cloud on a pay-by-the-hour rate, according to the company and one independent...
View ArticleGartner: BI software spending to hit $17.1 billion by 2016, but pace of...
The global market for BI (business intelligence) software will hit US$13.8 billion in 2013, but the pace of growth will be slower than in past years, according to new figures from analyst firm...
View ArticleGartner: Business intelligence leaders and laggards
Many organizations have yet to begin using systematic data analysis techniques in HR, marketing and social, according to Gartner.read more
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