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  • Oracle adds iPhone support to BI, analytics software

    Oracle has introduced support for Apple's iPad and iPhone as part of a slew of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software, the company announced Tuesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus04 May 11 01:00
  • Teradata, Information Builders roll out BI appliance

    Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter's WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software with a Teradata analytic appliance, the companies announced Friday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus30 April 11 04:27
  • Yahoo Hadoop spin-off could propel software's growth

    Yahoo's reported plan to spin off its Hadoop engineering unit into a separate company, should it happen, could spur more competition in the already-growing field of providing support for this data processing framework, observers said.

    Written by Joab Jackson29 April 11 08:29
  • SAP Q1 revenue up, but profits growth slow

    SAP saw revenue rise by 21 percent in the quarter ended March 31, with double-digit growth in all regions driven by increased software business from partners and the channel.

    Written by John Ribeiro28 April 11 16:38
  • Microsoft app analyzes your busy schedule

    In an effort to demonstrate the versatility of its PowerPivot business intelligence technology, Microsoft has released a free add-on application to Microsoft Office that analyzes the contents of a user's Microsoft Exchange calendar.

    Written by Joab Jackson28 April 11 06:42
  • Police using analytics to track offenders

    Two high-profile murders of college students in North Carolina during 2008 have led to the creation of CJLEADS (Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services), an analytics project that aggregates a slew of disparate data stores and is designed to give law enforcement officials a complete picture of a suspect's criminal history and status.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus22 April 11 04:31
  • Gartner: BI, analytics software spending jumps 13.4%

    Global spending on BI (business intelligence), analytics and performance management applications jumped 13.4 percent in 2010 to US$10.5 billion, according to figures released Wednesday by analyst firm Gartner. The results reflect the BI market's continued strength throughout the world's economic downturn, as customers looked to such software to find efficiencies and gain competitive advantage.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus21 April 11 01:49
  • Microstrategy takes aim at self-service BI

    Microstrategy is joining the trend toward self-service BI (business intelligence) with a new tool called Visual Insight that ships with the latest release of its platform, the company announced Tuesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus20 April 11 04:30
  • Jive Software buys data-mining vendor for social analytics

    Jive Software is buying data-mining startup Proximal Labs in a move that will help it derive deeper insights into social-networking data, the companies announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus14 April 11 05:22
  • Microsoft researchers: NoSQL needs standardization

    The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing Machinery's flagship publication, Communications.

    Written by Joab Jackson06 April 11 06:49
  • Lawson rolling out analytics app for health care

    Lawson Software will soon release a specialized analytics application for health care organizations, which make up a significant portion of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor's customer base.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus06 April 11 05:28
  • Open source IT Dashboard tracks govt spending

    The United States Government has open sourced the IT Dashboard project, a Web-based application designed to track IT spending used by CIOs of government agencies.

    Written by Rodney Gedda05 April 11 15:25
  • Hadoop Hive gets production polish

    Edging ever closer to enterprise software maturity, the Hive data warehouse software has been updated with new capabilities considered essential for production use, such as indexing, concurrency and advances in authentication management.

    Written by Joab Jackson31 March 11 07:26
  • Teach young workers to be business thinkers

    While 20-something employees are often a catalyst for bringing new technologies, such as social media, into the corporate world, entry-level workers may lack the decision-making skills necessary for using such tools effectively. It's a deficit that CIOs have to consider when deploying IT, says Tom Murphy, CIO of AmerisourceBergen.

    Written by Kim S. Nash29 March 11 02:47
  • PBT Group appoint new COO for BI

    Global healthcare and business services company, PBT Group, has appointed its Chief Operations Officer, Martin Rennhackkamp, to head up its business intelligence (BI) capabilities in its Australian arm of the company.

    Written by Chloe Herrick18 March 11 12:30
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