CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – 08 Nov 2011: New research released today by MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value (NYSE: IBM) reports that organizational challenges, more so than technology hurdles, are holding companies back from fully integrating analytics across their enterprises. [Read more...]

2011 will not be the year of the cloud for Business Intelligence (BI) – rather focus on advanced analytics, BI software-as-a-service and agile approaches, says Martin Rennhackkamp, COO of PBT. [Read more...]

MicroStrategy, a provider of business intelligence software, announced that its latest software release, MicroStrategy 9 Release 3, offers enhanced mobile BI capabilities for the Apple® iPhone® and iPad™. [Read more...]

Chief information officers must ensure that business intelligence (BI) programmes are treated as a “cultural transformation of the business, instead of an IT project”, analyst house Gartner (IT) has said. [Read more...]

A lot of business intelligence vendors are selling their cloud offerings, which seems like ‘heaven on earth’ to us. It’s cheaper, faster, more scalable and more reliable they say. But can true business intelligence be in the cloud? Can we draw parallels between water from the tap and BI in the cloud? [Read more...]

EMC Corporation today unveiled the findings of the largest-ever global survey of the data science community. Spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China, the EMC Data Science Study reveals and quantifies a rampant scarcity across the globe for the prerequisite skills necessary for a company to capitalize on the opportunities found at the intersection of Big Data and data analytics. [Read more...]

05-05-2008 Microsoft has withdrawn its bid for Yahoo after failing to reach agreement on the price. It is rumoured that Microsoft was not prepared to pay the US$ 37 that Yahoo wanted. During the 3 month courtship both companies made promises and announced plans which they will now have to live up to. It will be interesting to see how they do that. [Read more...]

Now that both established vendors and upstarts offer BI applications as on-demand services, more customers are saying yes to SaaS – gaining faster deployment, and speedier access to reporting data. [Read more...]

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