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  • SAP rolling out new analytics for SMBs

    SAP will soon roll out Crystal Server 2011 and Business Objects Edge 4.0, a pair of new BI (business intelligence) products aimed at small and medium-sized companies, the company announced Tuesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus14 June 11 22:09
  • 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.

    Written by Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall08 June 11 10:04
  • Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop

    Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or "big data" processing, the company announced Monday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus06 June 11 14:06
  • IBM launches city government software platform

    IBM plans to launch a software framework that will help city and local government executives get a more complete view of how well their operations are running.

    Written by Joab Jackson06 June 11 14:06
  • BI blows into town for Infigen Energy

    Gartner recently reported that investment in business intelligence (BI) jumped 13.4 per cent in 2010, with enterprises looking to increase efficiency and competitiveness. One Australian-based business investing in BI is alternative energy company Infigen Energy (ASX: IFN). Infigen rolled out BI software to manage the large amounts of data generated by wind farms spread across three continents.

    Written by Lisa Banks27 May 11 08:59
  • SAP launching in-memory computing cloud

    SAP is opening up a cloud-based platform for its HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory computing technology, enabling partners to develop applications that take advantage of its capabilities, the company announced Wednesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus19 May 11 01:25
  • SAP certifies software to run on Amazon

    Users of SAP's BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment products are now able to run the applications from Amazon's cloud, marking the first time SAP has worked to make its software available on a public cloud service.

    Written by Nancy Gohring18 May 11 22:09
  • SAP revs up mobile application strategy

    SAP is giving its ongoing push into mobile applications an extra shove with a series of new products aimed at verticals such as utilities, energy, retail and manufacturing, the company announced Tuesday during the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus17 May 11 23:43
  • SAP revamps performance management suite

    SAP is preparing to release a major revamp of its software for EPM (enterprise performance management), a subset of BI (business intelligence) that focuses on areas such as budgeting, planning and compliance, the company announced Monday in conjunction with the annual Sapphire conference in Orlando.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus16 May 11 22:42
  • SAP, Dell partner on in-memory and the cloud

    SAP and Dell are expanding their relationship in the areas of cloud computing and in-memory databases, the companies will announce on Monday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus16 May 11 22:10
  • Marc bails out Macquarie Uni on business intelligence

    Marc Bailey wants to kill the spreadsheet. At least, that’s what the research fellows at Macquarie University asked for when he first stepped on board as CIO in late 2009.

    Written by James Hutchinson16 May 11 10:51
  • MasterCard to help track emissions with new service

    MasterCard WorldWide on Thursday announced a program to help companies go green by capturing and analyzing travel related carbon emissions based on card transactions.

    Written by Agam Shah13 May 11 22:02
  • Deloitte buys Oco for BI, analytics

    Deloitte is upping its hand in BI (business intelligence), announcing Monday that it has bought "substantially all" of the assets of SaaS (software as a service) analytics vendor Oco. Terms were not revealed.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus10 May 11 01:10
  • A consultant responds to '7 dirty consultant tricks'

    With more than 30 years in technology consulting, I feel I can safely make a few observations about the field. The first is, alas, I'm growing old with the industry. The second is that I've had quite a lot of experience with customer/consulting relationships over the years, both good and bad, from my early days in statistical consulting to my current position in professional services management at OpenBI.

    Written by Steve Miller04 May 11 00:05
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