Performance Management News & Analysis Articles
Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.
IBM Plunges Into 'Business Event Management,' Helping Define Field
The fairly new field of complex event processing sets parameters around a software event and triggers alerts if the rules governing it are violated.
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Charles Babcock
JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements
JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.
Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.
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Mary Hayes Weier
IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.
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K.C. Jones
Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source
The next release of Actuate's business intelligence software includes more support for its Eclipse Foundation project started four years ago.
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Mary Hayes Weier
Actuate Upgrades Reporting Development Tools For Eclipse BIRT
Actuate 10 makes it possible to present structured data as rich Internet applications within the Eclipse Foundation's business intelligence and reporting tools.
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
Comparing past election results to Census data, Birst business intelligence environment looks inside state voting patterns.
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Doug Henschen
SAS Offers Manufacturers Early-Warning Analytics
SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis uses early-warning analytics to monitor thousands of parameters and send automated alerts to warn of product defects and potential failures in the manufacturing process before they become costly problems, the company said.
Tibco Unveils 'Network Analytics' For Spotfire
The add-on, which is sold separately, offers a whole new layer of interactive visual analysis on the business activity monitoring suite.
Teradata Bows Petabyte-Scale Appliance, Faster Database
Extreme Data Appliance 1550 meets super-high-scale analysis, compliance and archival demands. Teradata 13 database virtualizes storage, speeds loading and boosts performance.
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Doug Henschen
Business Objects Upgrade Looks Beyond SAP
Business Objects XI 3.1 upgrade adds native integration to Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel apps and myriad third-party data sources.
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Doug Henschen
After Leading on Platform, Cognos Catches Up On Details
IBM Cognos 8.4 upgrades include Flash-based dashboards, improved BI search, location-aware mobile delivery and new data lineage capabilities. Viewpoint interface lets business users manage hierarchies and dimensions.
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Doug Henschen
Oracle To Buy Advanced Visual Technology
The retail software maker's products help store owners decide how to arrange stores and manage retail space for best product placement.
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Charles Babcock
Tech Spending Will Be Weaker In 2009 Than Predicted
The good news is that tech spending will be better than expected this year. The bad news is that next year things will be worse, said Forrester Research.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Panorama Adds Flash UI To Online Analytics
Panorama's latest technology uses Adobe Systems' Flash to add animation and graphics to the user interface to guide users through each step of the data analysis operations.
Vitria Launches Business Performance Analytics App
The M3O Operations Book complements the company's M3O product, a business process management suite aimed at blending process management and event processing.
Cognos TM1 Upgrade Lets Users Drill Down on Rows
In-memory analytics engine gets enhanced Excel-integration, security features and international language support.
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Doug Henschen
Microsoft Upgrades Name As Well Features Of BizTalk
With the release of BizTalk 2009, Microsoft will commit itself to a cycle of upgrading the software on a two-year basis, a cycle that has been somewhat unpredictable.
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Charles Babcock
SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
The new Tracker feature tells an employer which salespeople are making use of SugarCRM's capabilities, which features are most frequently used, and which are being ignored.
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Charles Babcock
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