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Who's Buying What in BI?
04. 2.2009
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Doug Henschen
What are firms in your industry buying? What are firms of your size buying? What are IT types using and what are business types using? When it comes to business intelligence software, you'll find answers to all these questions in these four charts from Nigel Pendse's "The BI Survey 8."

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Cindi Howson
BI from the SAP Customer Viewpoint
03.31.2009
It struck me that the SAP Netweaver BI & Portals conference keynote was perhaps too visionary for where attending SAP customers are today in terms of their BI initiatives. Many are primarily writing ABAPs for reporting... Even Business Objects Web Intelligence is a major leap forward for them...

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From 'BI' to 'Business Analytics,' It's All Fluff
03.29.2009
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Neil Raden
I was there in Washington, D.C., last week at the SAS Global Executive Forum when Jim Davis gave his much-talked-about, business-intelligence-is-dead, business-analytics-is-the-future presentation. "I don't believe (business intelligence is) where the future is; the future is in business analytics," he said. I thought at the time that it was a little silly.

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Doug Henschen
'Fewer Measures, Better Results' and Other Advice for the Times
03.25.2009
If your enterprise is focusing on more than, say, a dozen key performance measures, you are probably not seeing the forest for the trees. This is just one bit of advice delivered in one of nearly a score of articles we've published on the theme of adjusting your information management plans and BI approaches to combat the economic downturn. Next week we roll the best of that advice into a one-hour Webinar...

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Drive Better Performance and Profitability with Dashboards
June 15, 2009
by Michael Lock, Aberdeen Group
Leading companies are using dashboards to drive improvements in sales, customer service and profitability. A new report by Aberdeen Group shows that the key to success is ensuring a mix of strategic and tactical measures against up-to-date performance goals.

Pick Information Priorities, Defend Business Intelligence Spending
March 23, 2009
by Doug Henschen
It's time for proactive reassessment, goal setting and communication on information management and BI programs. Integrators speak out on coping with IT cost cuts.

Readers Weigh In On Biggest Obstacles To Business Success
March 21, 2009
by Doug Henschen
Applications are important, but what IT really needs to improve intelligence, processes and performance is more business direction.

Predictive Analytics: What Have You Done For Me Lately?
March 16, 2009
by David Stodder
Make your future by taking action on insight in the "here and now."

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Panorama Gets Help From Google In Upgrade Of Web-Enabled BI Apps
A new Google Apps client includes a Flash-based analysis application that uses Google Docs in presenting an intuitive user interface that allows casual information workers to navigate through large amounts of data to generate business insights.

IDC Offers Outlook, Vendor Evaluation In Latest BI Report
The IDC Competitive Analysis Report lists SAP BusinessObjects as the clear leader of the business intelligence tools market, and says SAP is "well positioned to fulfill the future needs of BI technology purchasers."

IBM Adds Industry-Specific Business Intelligence Offerings
Software helps clients analyze information fed from different sources and use what's learned to improve business performance, according to IBM. New analytics applications are available for financial services, health care, life sciences and the government sector.

SeeWhy Takes Complex Event Processing To Web Analytics
The company launches a free online service called Abandonment Tracker that helps companies reach out to Web site visitors who abandon shopping carts or start, but never complete, registration forms and other processes.

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