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SAP Pays Price for SaaS Maturation
12. 1.2008
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11.30.2008 It's time for the BI community to treat social networks as the business-intelligence resource they are. The recent "Motrin moms" clamor and response to Mumbai terrorism prove networks' value. The value of the information that flows through these networks is indisputable. A deeper challenge is next on the agenda: optimizing that flow by better understanding the networks themselves. Read more from Seth Grimes >> On Thanksgiving, Freedom for Some, Fear for Foreigners 11.26.2008
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11.24.2008 A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest. It turns out to be a nicely formatted aggregation page for Google blogs... The point worth emphasizing is that as Web content becomes more granular, compositional, and personalizable (not to mention more perishable), subscribability becomes a design consideration. Read more from Kas Thomas >> Making Money With Mashups 11.21.2008
I'm back from this week's Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, and I came away impressed with both the event and my first real "unconference" experience. The 300 or so (mostly) developers attending were not only passionate and engaged, they drove much of the content, and at least 14 whipped up entries for the climax of the event, the Best Mashup Contest. Read more from Doug Henschen >>
11.20.2008 Microsoft's prescribed antidote to "Excel Hell" won't be available until at least 2010... So why wait years to evaluate a product when there are solutions today?... Last month Information Builders released its latest product, called WebFocus InfoAssist, which brings a range of BI capabilities for business and IT for easily accessing, analyzing and publishing data across the enterprise. Read more from Mark Smith >>
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Performance Management: Link Operational Decisions to Strategy  Go beyond BI to give decisions makers at all levels the data they need to make the right business decisions. More > Related: • Sidebar: How to Encourage Positive Behavior and Performance • Sidebar: Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT
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. Master Data Management Adoption Going Strong Worldwide revenue from master data management software is expected to reach $1.3 billion this year and more than double by 2012. SAP CEO: SaaS Hurts Our Profits The company has readied version 2.0 of Business ByDesign, but a broad-market push is too costly for SAP, incoming chief executive Leo Apotheker said. Oracle Site Hub Brings Order to Location Intelligence Master Data Management product consolidates and cleanses site-specific information for retailers, government agencies, utilities and more. Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less. Making the Business Case for Mashups Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream. Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax. JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.
SPOTLIGHT Nine Choices on the Road to BI Solution Centers
 Forrester Research says BI Solution Centers offer a business-governed, solutions-focused edge over BI competency centers. Here are nine key considerations you'll face when building your BISC.
More > • Seven Steps to Successful BI Competency Centers • Who Should Own the BI Competency Center? • What's Your BI Competency Center Quotient? • Smarter Use Of Business Intelligence MUST READS
Open Source BI Fights For Its Share With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users. The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come The problems that made open source code impractical for many businesses are falling away. Add in the 'cheaper' factor, and this should get interesting. Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations. BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future Hans Peter Luhn envisioned a "business intelligence system" way back in 1958, but only recently has BI begun to serve up knowledge instead of numbers. Kimball University: Maintaining Dimension Hierarchies Dimension hierarchies and pre-computed aggregations can make or break your data warehouse. Here's how to design, load and maintain true hierarchies while working around bad data sources and optimizing for usability and performance. Five Steps to Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance The pressure is on business intelligence and data warehousing professionals to handle ever-higher data volumes and ever-more-complex queries while reducing decision latency. Follow this five-step approach to identify key business drivers, optimize system performance, guide new technology deployments, improve responsiveness, and invest for future performance demands. SaaS Integration: Real-World Problems, And How CIOs Are Solving Them Installing SaaS applications is easy. It's integrating them that can drive up the cost and complexity SaaS is supposed to avoid. |
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