business intelligence
Japan-based Oita Bank has selected SAS and Teradata to help revitalize its business intelligence capabilities. With the help of SAS Marketing Automation, Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse platform, and the Teradata AccessNavigatorWeb query tool, Oita Bank can store six times the previous volume of data and process that data three times faster.
TIBCO Software Inc. recently announced the general availability of TIBCO Silver Spotfire, a fully functional on-demand offering designed to enable users to create, publish and share custom dashboards or reports for business analytics and business intelligence (BI) in the cloud.
Designed for the marketing operations manager and executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs, courtesy of IBM, focuses on the emergence of Marketing Operations and its increasing adoption of demand and sales funnel analytics to drive best-in-class performance and deliver competitive differentiators.
A good analytical tool has the potential to tell you, with some semblance of accuracy, what your market will be like in the future. But to do this properly you need serious computing power – no laptop, no netbook, and certainly no iPad allowed!
Midsize companies see business intelligence (BI) as too unwieldy and expensive for them, and use spreadsheets for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. In reality, the spreadsheets are the real expense and time-consumers. Midsized companies have six strategies in common when choosing and deploying BI solutions that address both business and IT challenges. You can choose the one that fits your company.
There is a lot of confusion between what business analytics is and if it comes part of business intelligence tools. Murphy Choy, a long-time SAS user, offers a very straight forward and simple explanation of the two differing technologies and where they meet.
Today’s business decisions are as complex as the technology which spawned them. Making a decision today often means sifting through a myriad set of data points. At some point, you have to stop and ask “am I over complicating the matter?”
The appetite for increasingly sophisticated types of data visualization is generating an unprecedented surge of opportunity for Advanced Visual Systems(AVS), a provider of data visualization technology and an player in the field of data presentation, information management and visual solution development.
CIOs struggling to make a business case out of business intelligence tools should rally the enterprise into a common implementation strategy, in order to ensure swift and streamlined implementation.
Oracle business intelligence (BI) software gets high marks for its wide range of capabilities and strong focus on scalability, but there is always room for improvement, according to IT industry analysts and one Oracle BI software user.





















