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Improving ROI and Success Rate of Your Business Intelligence Project Using an AGILE Iterative and Incremental Approach

Business Intelligence BI applications are increasingly popular and organizations of all sizes are seeing the benefits. As a consequence, BI applications are no longer limited to senior executive but are increasingly deployed throughout departments and levels. The timely completion and successful implementation of BI projects provides a competitive advantage to...

Tags: ROI, Pyxis Technologies, Business Intelligence Application, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-04-03

An Integrated Architecture for Business Intelligence Support From Application Down to Storage

Off late developments both in the business and the technological domain have led to a significant increase in demand for Business Intelligence BI infrastructures that can handle huge amounts of data in small time frames. BI applications are increasingly used by large user bases on all management levels; support tasks...

Tags: Storage, University Of Stuttgart, Business Intelligence Application, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2007-03-20

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Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Enterprise mashup, defined

SoIt is Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence with the ability for end users to create their own analysis and data views? Nothing new there.There is something new here...Yes, end users have been creating their own spreadsheets and working with desktop tools for some time now. And a handful of...

Tags: enterprise mashup

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

SnapLogic snaps together different data flows and cuts integration costs

I recently had a chance to catch up with one of my favorite Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs Gauruv Dhillon. When I first met Mr Dhillon he was CEO of Informatica, one of the top software companies in Silicon Valley. These days he is founder,...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Developer, Consultant, Snap, SnapLogic, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-09

IBM aims to connect corporate mashups and business intelligence

IBM on Tuesday launched a mashup service for its Cognos 8 business intelligence suite. The offering, dubbed IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service, is an application programming interface API that can expose content from Cognos 8 as a Web service. That corporate data can then be used in...

Tags: Business Intelligence, IBM Corp., Mashup, Mashup Center, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware

Watch the free, on-demand webcast to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Video, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-10-12

The Bavarian State Police Minimizes IT Expenditure on Police Crime Statistics Reporting

Bavarian State Police wanted to introduce a flexible reporting component to meet the interests of various levels of law enforcement management and speed up statistics gathering for the annual report, which previously took days. The challenge was to remedy the situation whereby precisely structured reporting queries were virtually impossible or...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Development Tools, Databases, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

SuccessFactors: Backing into business intelligence?

Good Luck to SuccessFactorsSuccessFactors has a great offering. What Siebel got completely wrong with ERM, Successfactors got it right from a product and On-Demand delivery perspective. Given that they are now public, I can imagine the growth pressures being faced, now.However, the reporting mashup initiative is naive. It has been...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Sales strategy, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, cloud computing, SuccessFactors Inc., business intelligence

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Risk management and cloud computing

In my view, security is a critical component of a successful cloud computing implementation regardless of the company size, the vertical market it plays in or what workload or application is living in the cloud. In the world of business intelligence, this translates to risk and risk management. by...

Tags: Risk Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Security, Hardware, Finance, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-11

News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

PerfectForms 1.10 (Windows)

PerfectForms offers a smarter way to manage and monitor your business. You can build any type of interactive web form using our drag and drop graphical editor. Then simply add intelligence to your form to automate workflow routing, set automatic reminders and escalations, and easily integrate with LDAP, databases and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PerfectForms, LDAP, Operational Planning, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-09-10

More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Diebold Increases Linux-Support Satisfaction, Decreases Support Costs by 50%

Diebold wanted to improve support for the company's Linux environment on which it runs mission-critical systems, including its data warehouse based on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle E-Business Suite applications and find ways to continually improve operational efficiency without compromising service - including looking at ways to reduce...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, Diebold Inc., Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

Carbon calculator as value-added service: Consider the case of Sabre

Many businesses are using carbon footprint calculators to track the environmental impact of some or all of their operations, notably travel. But what exactly can a company do with this sort of data? Travel management and services company Sabre, which is using sophisticated calculators developed using datawarehousing...

Tags: Sabre Holdings, Carbon, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Bank Teams With Application Platform Experts to Redesign Web-Banking Infrastructure

Alpha Bank is one of the largest banks in Greece with more than 1,000 branches, more than 15,000 employees, and a presence in Cyprus, Southeastern Europe, and the United Kingdom. The database and application platform that supported the alternative banking channels of Alpha Bank grew obsolete, making it difficult for...

Tags: Bank, Alpha Bank S.A., Pricing, Real Estate, Banking, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Business Operations, Financial Services, Software, Data Management, Management, Web Services

Case studies 2009-08-24

IBM launches integrated mainframe packages for payments, data warehousing and SOA

IBM on Friday announced a lineup of integrated mainframe, software and services packages designed for specific tasks like data warehousing, service oriented architecture and transactions. The announcement highlights the latest hardware trend---vendors are increasingly pushing function specific hardware optimized for a certain task. Teradata, Oracle's Exadata machine,...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Payment, SOA, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Software Firm Provides Real-Time Data Mining Solutions Using SQL Server 2005

GSTAT provides business intelligence and data mining solutions, including real-time Next Best Offers NBO to customers across a range of industries. GSTAT developed its GSTAT Xeligence data mining solutions using the Microsoft Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software. Customers using GSTAT's Xeligence NBO solution from finance, telecom...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, GSTAT, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-14