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07.18.2008
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07.18.2008 Gary Cokins of SAS and James Taylor, my partner at Smart (enough) Systems, in an admirable attempt to disambiguate the terms Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) and Performance Management (PM) have, unfortunately, both gotten it wrong... PM performs the meta-business... EDM does what the company does for a living. Read more from Neil Raden >> Enterprise Search and the Findability Gap 07.17.2008
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07.16.2008 Oracle made big news today introducing the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Fusion Edition. The release marks both the final integration of Hyperion and Oracle technologies, following last year's acquisition, as well as a bold statement as to the future direction of enterprise performance management as a kind of ERP system for corporate management. Read more from Doug Henschen >> Aster nCluster Builds on Open Source PostgreSQL 07.15.2008
I've written about the "category error" of looking at open source primarily as targeting end-user replacement of BI applications and established data warehouse platforms. OS's greatest BI/DW contribution to date has instead been in enabling developers. I'm more convinced than ever of this assessment, even as OS-BI vendors have launched improvements that target enterprise end users. On the DW front, here's why — Read more from Seth Grimes >>
07.15.2008 If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that support is one of my hot buttons in evaluating BI vendors... You also know that support has been Business Objects' Achilles heal, yet the vendor has made significant improvements over the last two years... All of that fell apart last week when SAP abruptly switched Business Objects customers to the SAP support site. Read more from Cindi Howson >>
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Oracle Pitches Enterprise Performance Management as Next ERP Fusion Edition EPM System completes integration of Hyperion apps and Essbase with Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle E-Business Suite. SAP To Migrate Customers To More Expensive Support Service The software company plans to move customers from their current agreements to the new service's pricing model of 22% of license fees by 2012. SPSS Upgrade Takes Analytics Mainstream SPSS Statistics 17.0 makes analytic insights more accessible to business users while beefing up functionality for analysts, programmers and administrators. Microsoft Bolsters Data Management With Zoomix Purchase Zoomix software automatically cleans data of redundant instances, analyzes and classifies data, and learns from its previous actions. Chordiant 'Listens' In On Call-Center Conversations Chordiant Recommendation Advisor 6.1 monitors call-center conversations and offers agents recommendations on what actions to take. SnapLogic Adds Amazon EC2 Support In Data-Integration Tools SnapLogic's technology maps data from one source to another, letting companies create new types of Web applications and mashups. Pentaho Releases iPhone BI Application The software can navigate through interactive reports and dashboards, as well as integrate BI functionality with other features of the smartphone, such as voice calling, e-mail and text messaging. Microsoft's SQL Server Growth Slows But Still Beats Rivals The total database market grew at a rate of 12.6% in 2007 and hit $18.8 billion, compared with $16.7 billion the year before, says IDC.
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Oracle Introduces BI Application for iPhone  Oracle is catching up in the area of mobile business intelligence (BI) by riding the coattails of the red-hot iPhone. Last week, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Business Indicators, an iPhone-native application that will enable executives and managers to access "key metrics and analytical data" from Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. RELATED LINKS: • Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI • Coming To The iPhone: Enterprise Apps • Pentaho Releases iPhone BI Application • Put to the Test: Best Smartphone Platforms For Business MUST READS
Ride the Next Wave of Flexible 'BI Workspaces' Forrester Research says SaaS and in-memory options will let power users and analysts gain insight without IT bottlenecks. Embrace the trend, but beware the costs and risks. Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing With new compression, partitioning and star schema optimization features, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is catching up with the state of the industry in data warehousing. Here's why these three capabilities are crucial for scalability and performance on any platform. Data Warehouse Alternatives Make a Hit in India and Europe Telco Reliance scales with DW appliances. Web marketer TradeDoubler loads and queries faster, cuts cost with a column-store database. Are You Ready for Advanced Analytics? You can now buy analytics as an add-on module for your BI suite, but you'll need expertise to make the leap into predictive analytics. Predictive Analytics: Peer into the BI Crystal Ball A new Aberdeen Group survey finds that there's no silver bullet in predictive analytic success. Here's a sampling of the approaches best-in-class firms are using to spot trends, understand customers, and proactively tune products, pricing and positioning. Q&A: Amazon on Enterprise Computing in the Cloud Speaking at this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Amazon's Adam Selipsky says enterprises are already embracing the agility and economies of scale of cloud computing. Put to the Test: Best Smartphone Platforms For Business A smartphone's OS drives its productivity-enhancing powers. Here's a guide to choosing among Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia S60, and Google Android. |
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