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• CEOs see IT as revenue creating more than cost saving

  There has been a reverse in the interest of CEOs in IT projects that save the business money to initiatives that make money, Harvey Nash’s latest CIO survey has revealed.

• Tableau 9.0 beta rolls out

  Tableau will showcase beta version 9.0 of its data visualization and analysis software to a large group of customers today, touting features that include drag-and-drop analytics as well as data-preparation features that formerly had to be done outside the application.

• IBM Watson Analytics now open for business

  IBM Watson, apparently not content with its Jeopardy winnings, is looking for work. After a lot of buildup, Watson Analytics, the natural language business intelligence tool based on Big Blue's famed AI, is now available in beta under a freemium model where it's free to get started -- but the really powerful analytics are going to cost you.

• Pilbara 4G LTE network, BI dashboard feature in state iAwards

  The 2014 national iAward finalists and WAiTTA winners for Western Australia, along with ACT iAward winners, were announced last week. The state iAwards recognised a wide variety of technologies, ranging from Rio Tinto’s 4G LTE network to National Blood Authority’s treatment management app.

• Dodo adapts to market with business intelligence

  Dodo has adjusted marketing and its range of energy and telecom services over the last three years based on insights learned from a business intelligence (BI) platform, according to M2 Telecommunications consumer director, Boris Rozenvasser.

• BT Financial embraces BI to better understand customers

  BT Financial Group has tapped business intelligence (BI) software from QlikView to provide insights on how to grow and retain customers for its financial advice business.

• In pictures: QlikTech takes harbour cruise

  Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech hosted the Australian leg of their business discovery world tour on a Sydney harbour cruise this week. The customer event discussed current trends in BI.

• 10 steps to successfully incorporate Big Data into your BI program

  Every day, organisations are producing and capturing enormous amounts of information about their customers, suppliers and operations. Add to this the information now available from multimedia, smart phones and social networking sites, and we are faced with more data than ever before.

• BYOT to drive BI as the end user becomes obsolete: QlikView

  Bring your own technology (BYOT) schemes are set to drive the future of business intelligence (BI) development, a former Microsoft BI employee has said.

• Dulux Group face up to tablet dilemma

  The use of business intelligence (BI) has improved sales for home improvement and paint specialists, Dulux Group, but now the company faces a tablet dilemma.

• Has business intelligence failed?

  To help businesses get smarter and stronger, business intelligence (BI) systems analyse and synthesise huge pools of corporate data to create terabytes of performance-enhancing information for enterprises of all sizes.

• Top five rules for CIOs to minimise risk on BI projects

  Business Intelligence (BI) can have a profound effect on business decision making, but an increasingly complex environment teamed with heightened expectations from across the business often opens BI implementations up to a multitude of problems, risks and potential failings. Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall, managing partners of C3 Business Solutions, map out the best approach for CIOs to ensure their BI investment becomes a powerful corporate asset.

• Enabling customer data the next evolution for Aussie banks: Teradata

  Australian businesses must prepare to share more information with customers as business intelligence (BI) evolves, according to software company Teradata.

• Touch Networks deploys BI strategy

  A desire to restructure its business infrastructure coupled with an IT team focusing purely on internal projects allowed Touch Networks to deploy a business intelligence (BI) strategy to its growing business.

• Business intelligence needs CFO, COO support to be agile: Gartner

  Having the entire management team on side is vital to ensuring that agile business intelligence (BI) standards are met.