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Think Globally, Analyze Locally
All this talk about "operational BI" and "pushing intelligence to decison-makers" is mostly just theory, right? No, it isn't. And nothing illustrates better than example.
Business Objects, Noetix Sign OEM Deal
Noetix will integrate and resell Crystal Xcelsius with its Dashboard product.
In Focus: Clouds on the SOA/BPM Horizon?
We're approaching the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" when it comes to
service-oriented architecture and business process management.
Analysis: When SOA and Process Management Merge
Software AG's Crossvision release asserts that service-oriented
architecture and business process management belong together.
Cartesis Names Veteran IT Exec As New CFO
The performance management vendor enlists a CFO with experience in IT-related management, finance and investment.
We're No. 1
If you still haven't gotten the respect you deserve from your CIO, that might change.
Sand Technology Upgrades Info Management Software
The application works in combination with BI tools and lets users query compressed data without decompressing it first.
Visual Analysis Boosts Celtics Ticket Revenue
Daryl Morey, senior VP of operations and information at the Boston
Celtics, uses StratTix to improve ticket sales.
In Focus: HP Improves the Odds of New Business Success
You can't know the unknown, but technology can organize what is known
and point to the most likely path to success.
Beyond The Relational Database
"Information management" goes way beyond the relational database -- if for no other reason, than simply because relational databases can't handle the entire job.
Buying Out The Boss
Open-source application server and middleware maker JBoss attracted huge attention last month when it announced it was moving up the stack by building the first commercial-use product based on Enterprise Java Beans 3 (EJB3). Now JBoss is back in the news -- as a potential buyout target.
OpenConnect Launches Mainframe-to-SOA Suite
soaSolution designed to improve return on legacy investment while eliminating the risk of migrating mainframe information and applications to SOAs.
MRG Document Technologies to Add Business Rules System to Core Technology
Alliance will integrate Haley Systems' business rules technology into MRG's new proprietary software platform.
Network General to Acquire Fidelia
Acquisition aims to expand the packet flow-based application and network performance management provider's product portfolio to cover the entire realm of enterprise application performance management.
SPSS Reports Strong Q4 Sales, Earnings
Acceptance of SPSS 14.0 helps fourth-quarter revenue reach $62.2 million, up from $60.5 million in the same period last year.
BI Tools Help Deliver Record 2005 Sales For SAS
Revenue at the privately held software giant grows 10 percent to $1.68 billion.
How Analytics Saved Siebel Engineers' Jobs
It's a good thing for Siebel's base of engineers that the firm started building analytics capabilities before Oracle acquired the firm. Otherwise most of them might be out of a job.
Performance Management Driving BI Spending
But most companies still haven't reached expertise with performance management, which requires buy-in from broad swathes of the organization, a Gartner analyst says.
WebTrends Talks Smack
Here's the latest on the increasingly boisterous Web analytics vendor scene: WebSideStory bought Visual Sciences, a maker of streaming data analysis and visualization software. Within hours, we here at Business Intelligence Pipeline heard from Greg Drew, CEO of WebSideStory rival WebTrends, who gave his take on the matter. He is, in a word, unimpressed.
Unisys Finds Discipline Works
Over the past four years, Unisys has trained 800 employees on COBIT and implemented most of its 34 processes and 300 controls in four key IT areas.
Headsup: Speech Recognition Gets More Accurate
If you've been misunderstood by a voice response system, you know voice recognition is a work in progress. But at a recent "Speech Day" in New York, IBM showed how voice applications are improving.
Lithium Technologies Chosen to Power Siebel Systems' Customer Forums
Siebel's base of more than 4,000 customers use forums to discuss the people, processes, and technologies that help make their customer-facing systems and business initiatives successful.
Sprint Nextel Files New Lawsuit Claiming Fraudulent Pursuit of Confidential Customer Information
Aggressive action taken against online data brokers is latest in a series of lawsuits.
CompUSA.com Reaps Rewards from New Customer Ratings and Reviews Solution from Bazaarvoice
Customer-to-customer conversations on compusa.com increase sales, attract new customers, and improve merchandising strategy.
Business Objects to Acquire Firstlogic, Inc.
Business intelligence giant acquires its partner in enterprise data quality management solutions to create complete EIM solution.
Excel And BI: Best Buddies Forever
Everybody likes product reviews, and we have a new one here on Business Intelligence Pipeline from our own uber-reviewer, Jacques Surveyer. Jacques take an under-the-hood look at Business Objects' Xcelsius and Xcelsius Workgroup, tools the BI bellwether based on technology it acquired from Infommersion last year.
Business Objects To Buy Data Quality Firm Firstlogic
The BI vendor will spend $69 million to help it ensure the quality of business information analyzed by its customers.
Field Report: Factiva, New York
A 'discovery plane' and visualizations help subscribers find things they didn't even know they were looking for.
Business Objects Targets Consumer Packaged Goods
The business intelligence firm continues trying to make headway selling analytics tools designed for individual industries, particularly retail and CPG.
Let The Data Flow
Integrating operational data has long been one of the toughest IT problems. One choice is ripping and replacing legacy systems and consolidating on a single application platform, but that's neither affordable nor practical. You'll find a better answer in business integration convergence, a trend toward combining techniques including metadata repositories and discovery, data modeling and data quality services, ETL and EII, and integration with message brokers and ESBs for timely data synchronizat
Shortlist
SPSS Clementine 10; MatrixOne Library Central; Sterling Commerce Retail Solutions Suite; Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino; Host Analytics Host Budget
Building With Blox: A Faster Route to Analytic Apps
IBM's Alphablox speeds development of custom OLAP apps.
Gartner: BI Market To Reach $2.5 Billion This Year
The Stamford, Conn.-based firm also projects ongoing growth through 2009, when license revenue is expected to reach $3 billion.
Stellent Brings Blogs and Wikis Under Control
New templates and capabilities for managing blogs, wikis and RSS within
Stellent's Universal Content Management platform are designed to give
users the look, feel and ad hoc immediacy of these chic Web environments
while also ensuring content security, reusability and auditability.
Google This, Google That
Don't believe the hype: Google didn't make any of the traditional Web analytics vendors happy when it started giving away online analytical tools. But that doesn't mean the existing vendors don't have defensible "we're-not-afraid-of-Google" rhetoric to throw at analytics-buying customers.
In Focus: ECM Market Notches Steady Growth
ECM market growth is stuck in the high-single-digit range, and
competition has remained intense. Vendors are filling gaps in their
portfolios in hopes of luring customers away from competitors.
New Directions For OLAP
As OLAP reaches its second decade, it's being extended beyond data to text and geospatial information.
Five Reasons To Invest in Process Management
Here are 5 reasons you need business process management.
Letter Drop
A Clarion Voice on Competency; Anything But Reluctant; Unstructured vs. Unmanaged
New Management Dashboard for Compiere's Open Source ERP & CRM Application Announced
Dashboard provides at-a-glance view of key performance indicators for more effective business strategy implementation and corporate objective tracking.
Your Job's Safe
Information technology makes for a rocky career path, with IT workers' skills sometimes declared obsolete overnight. And even many IT pros who stay on the cutting edge now face the threat of outsourcing.
But not the business intelligence experts.
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