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Interactive Dashboards: US.Gov Aces, Wimbledon Double Faults
07. 2.2009
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Rajan Chandras
The US government has unveiled a dashboard to track IT spending. Apparently put together in a remarkably short six weeks, it looks at first sight a shining example of the power and value of business intelligence. Features of the IT spending dashboard include...

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Seth Grimes
CEP, Events, and Continuous {Transformation | Intelligence}
07. 1.2009
Given that BI thought leaders are wrestling with the notion of events, perhaps we will see a BI-mainstreaming of event processing in the not-too-distant future. Interest in streams and events has definitely picked up in the last few months, and next year could very well be the break-out year for BI on data and event streams.

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Mulling the Mystery of Microsoft's BI Market Share
07. 1.2009
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Doug Henschen
When IDC recently released its BI revenue and market share figures for 2008, I wondered just how the research firm compiles those figures. It turns out the bulk of the data is reported to IDC directly by the vendors... But what do you do in the case of Microsoft, which bundles all the components of Microsoft BI as features of multipurpose products?

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Cindi Howson
Twisting Terms to Make BI Market Share Claims
06.30.2009
When a BI vendor claims they are the market leader of anything, according to IDC, you need to be clear on what exactly gets counted. In other words, study the taxonomy on page three of IDC's latest report...

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Bucking the Cloud Computing Hype
06.29.2009
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David Linthicum
06.29.2009
If you push back on cloud computing, even for good reasons, then you're considered a backward thinker. If you go along with the trends and the hype, and your systems hit a cloud computing-enabled wall, then you're considered incompetent. I'm not sure which path is better.

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Seth Grimes
When Business Gets Too Personal
06.26.2009
Visualization guru Stephen Few reminds us that analyst opinions, while offered by recognized experts, are inherently personal, and that on the other side of the table, there are real people behind products, marketing campaigns, and corporate decisions. But I disagree with Steve that analysts should always name names. Some situations become simply too personal...

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TAKE THE POLL:
Which innovation will be most important in the next era of business intelligence?
Social networks as data sources and collaborative analysis environments
    17%
Dynamic, interactive interfaces (Ajax, Flash/Flex, Silverlight, etc.)
    4%
Decision services (blending analytics, business rules and process management to automate/facilitate decision-making)
    37%
Embedding BI (within enterprise apps, portals, etc.)
    17%
In-memory data analysis
    13%
Advanced information visualization techniques
    11%

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Cloud Computing Advocates Detail Its Future
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopolous, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com speculate on cloud computing's future.   More >

Related Stories:
Sun Shows Off Vendor Support For Cloud
Greenplum Cloud Plan Promises New Era for Data Warehousing
HP, Skytap Testing Cloud Applications
General Services Administration Looks To Cloud

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DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT

Oracle Revs Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle President Charles Phillips traveled to Washington, D.C. to host the launch of the next-gen foundation for the company's Fusion Applications.

Information Builders Tops Ventana's 'Value Index' For BI Vendors
Information Builders topped the list of seven vendors that agreed to participate in the study with a value index of 93%, followed by IBM Cognos Software, Infor, Softscape, Arcplan, Actuate, Symphony-Metreo, Microsoft and InetSoft, respectively.

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.

Oracle Automates E-Commerce Personalization
Real-Time Decisions 3.0 upgrade supports offline marketing and adds prebuilt 'decision patterns' for cross selling and customer retention.

Talend Launches Real-Time Data Integration Platform
The Talend Integration Suite RTx enables IT organizations to accelerate the movement of data across computing systems, providing up-to-the-minute data to help in decision-making.

Enterprise 2.0: SAP, Jive Combining BI With Wikis
IT departments won't have to arrange for separate licenses or subscriptions for business intelligence tools that people want to use in their companies' Jive-based wikis.

Metastorm Connects BPM Software To Latest SAP ERP
ProVision Connect offers an efficient and cost-effective way to start a process-modeling project while upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0, the latest version of SAP enterprise resource planning system.

Get Ready For The Next Virtualization Headache: Application Performance
With so many servers virtualized, companies are searching for the best way to make sure applications meet expectations.


SPOTLIGHT
Information Builders Tops Ventana's 'Value Index' For BI Vendors
UPS Taps 'Continuous Analytics' for IT Systems Reporting
Information Builders topped the list of seven vendors that agreed to participate in the study with a value index of 93%, followed by IBM Cognos Software, Infor, Softscape, Arcplan, Actuate, Symphony-Metreo, Microsoft and InetSoft, respectively.  More >

MUST READS

UPS Taps 'Continuous Analytics' for IT Systems Reporting
Real-time business intelligence helps the shipping giant keep tabs on mission-critical transactions.

Drive Better Performance and Profitability with Dashboards
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.

Coke's RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence
The Freestyle drink dispensers will give consumers more than 100 beverage choices -- and provide the beverage maker with valuable consumption data.

Kimball University: The 10 Essential Rules of Dimensional Modeling
Follow the rules to ensure granular data, flexibility and a future-proofed information resource. Break the rules and you'll confuse users and run into data warehousing brick walls.

Image Gallery: See Connections with Visualization
Take this visual tour of our 'Next-Era Business Intelligence' report on the effective use of information visualization.

Reduce the Total Cost of BI Ownership
Are you confronting higher-than-expected business intelligence expenditures? A new Aberdeen Group report reveals how best-in-class companies are controlling BI costs from deployment through ongoing system maintenance.

Q&A: A Practical Path to Real-Time Data Warehousing
Teradata's Stephen Brobst and GoldenGate's Alok Pareek describe an evolutionary path to real-time data warehousing and operational BI. It's an incremental journey that starts with a simple question about business process change.




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