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Enhancing Business Intelligence With Forecasting: How to Produce High-Quality Forecasts, Ensure Better Decisions and Plan More Accurately

Business Intelligence BI technology has been around for more than a decade. While the term BI became synonymous with historical query and reporting tools for many years, the definition of BI has evolved to include technology that addresses data integration, predictive analytics and information deployment. Predictive analytics often help companies...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute, Forecasting, Business Intelligence Technology, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2006-10-01

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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

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Gartner: Cloud computing, analytics top 2010 strategic tech list

Gartner unveiled its top 10 strategic technology list for 2010. Unified communications, servers and specialized systems are out. Client computing, data center do-overs, flash memory and mobile applications are in. The list, presented Tuesday at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, by analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Analytics, Gartner Inc., Data Centers, Financial Planning, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

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

Cisco goes shopping (again) scoops up Starent

Updated: Cisco said it will buy Starent Networks in a deal valued at $2.9 billion. The move comes shortly after Cisco bought Tandberg. Starent provides mobile Internet Protocol IP gear. Cisco will use Starent's equipment to better target carriers, which are increasingly relying on wireless units to...

Tags: Starent Networks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

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

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

IT support: Cut the jargon or find another job

Zack i agree with you to a pointWhat i find missing from your article is the fact that staff customers etc. Can be very rude. I work for a small business about 50 employees total. All but myself and the ceo are female. When the come to me for something...

Tags: Construction, job, IT_Guy, jargon, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

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

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

Rethink Your Web Gateway Security --- Why You Need More than URL Filtering

Rethink Your Web Gateway Security --- Why You Need More than URL Filtering As the web becomes more important to modern business, it is also becoming more dangerous. Cybercriminals are more organized to the point that web-borne malware has become an integral part of the Internet- in...

Tags: Web, Trend Micro Inc., Malware, URL Filtering Solution, Channel Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 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

Apple to ship Snow Leopard Aug. 28

Just orderedI just ordered mine.Family Pack Order CompletedWe have rescheduled our Mac UG meeting for Friday evening for the Snow Leopard release to show it. Should be fun for everyone.Correction:Online Apple Store states flat-out, that product "Delivers on August 28."RE: Apple to ship Snow Leopard Aug. 28This is a really...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, GCD, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Who's the fairest HR product of them all.......

Every year, I set aside some budget monies to attend a couple of events/shows. I’m fortunate that some software vendors waive some of the costs if I’m covering the event as a press/analyst person. Events are expensive to attend and hurt my chargeability at the same time. I choose carefully...

Tags: Software, Human Resources Inc., Registration Site, Tools & Techniques, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Who might get health reform passed?

They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

It's basically the same pattern . . .It's basically the same pattern I've seen all the time: New technology comes around, people clamor over it and predict it will replace the "old" tech, the old tech ends up being better than the new tech in some ways, and they end...

Tags: Virtualization, Storage, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Better Decision Making With SAP BusinessObjects BI Package

The challenge was to enable access to accurate, relevant information to enhance productivity and decision Making, to consolidate and aggregate data to support both simple and complex questions, to minimize reliance on IT intervention, to provide a flexible, scalable information infrastructure as one delivers more information to more users and...

Tags: Decision-making, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Pitney Bowes Case Study: Scotiabank

Scotiabank, Canada's international bank, employs nearly 56,000 individuals, and along with its affiliates, serves upwards of 10 million customers in approximately 50 countries around the world. Scotiabank faces the challenge of expanding its branch locations across international geographies and managing these markets remotely, while also being cognizant to the impact...

Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Scotiabank, Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Asset Management, Financial Services, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2009-07-30