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- Information Builders
- (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The company introduced...
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- Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan
- This just in: Information Builders has predicted the World Series winner and the Los Angeles Dodgers will defeat the Anaheim Angels. But before pitching someone the PR teams should at least check a locale or two. I'm a tweener between New York and Philly. Do you honestly...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Mobile Business Intelligence Reporting: A Roadmap for Success
- How an organization approaches mobile BI will inevitably impact the health of the entire enterprise. With more and more employees traveling and working remotely they are driving the trend and changing the face of business communications. Organizations that meet the demand for mobile BI will benefit from maximized productivity by...
- White papers 2009-08-12
- The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications: Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI
- If one is looking to leverage business intelligence software to create an application that will have maximum impact on organization, perhaps one should look outside the traditional boundaries of BI. Think beyond the classic analytical application for a few back-office analysts, and envision how the wide distribution of data to...
- White papers 2009-08-05
- How Business Intelligence Should Work: The Connection Between Strategic, Analytical, and Operational Initiatives
- Business Intelligence BI has been around for a long time, and over the years has taken on many different forms - reporting, OLAP, ad hoc, performance management, predictive analytics, data mining, etc. For someone who's new to the concept of BI, these various solutions can be quite confusing. Many potential...
- White papers 2009-03-05
- Structuring the Haystack: Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions
- A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute TDWI recently estimated that 80 percent of the information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. Sort of, but it can be better than that. Think about the results one normally gets back from a...
- White papers 2008-10-23
- Everyone Sells: The Value of Business Intelligence in Retail
- A recent study by accounting firm BDO Seidman surveyed the largest U.S. public retailers about their risk factors: 90 percent named consolidation and competition; 83 percent cited economic worries; and 79 percent said foreign suppliers. Although competitive and consolidation factors can be minimized through proper application of technology, it's in...
- White papers 2008-09-25
- The Most Widely Used Business Intelligence Paradigm: Enabling Pervasive BI With Guided Ad Hoc Reporting
- Organizations today face a great challenge. They must make timely business information readily available to a large base of various users, in a way that is highly relevant and useful to each. But, the traditional Business Intelligence BI tools at their disposal have forced them to rely on IT resources,...
- White papers 2008-06-25
- Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
- The job of the CIO has changed dramatically in recent years. Seventy-six percent of CIOs say their roles are becoming more strategic as organizations look to use information to create a competitive advantage. By providing information access that will help employees exceed performance expectations, increase customer satisfaction, and fuel expansion,...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Information Builders: There is life past 40
- Information Builders: There is life past 40webfocusdetail traning and documentation
- Discussion threads 2004-12-27
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- Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan
- First of allThe Phillies will eat the Dodgers starting pitching for lunch, and any person or computer that can't see that doesn't deserve to be talking about baseball. Also it is worth noting that a computer cannot predict the heart, desire, and most of all patience of a real champion...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Memory Sizing Guidance for Windows 7
- This paper describes an approach that Information Technology IT professionals and system builders can use to determine how much memory is required to successfully run a set of programs. It explores how the choices in machine architecture, hardware devices, driver version, and memory configuration affect the amount of memory that...
- White papers 2009-07-14
- Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard
- Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardAlready in the works...Been in research for going on 4 years.RE: Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardI wouldn't want to think Chrome browser adoption has been great. Same way, though the idea is a nice one of no frills, kind of web only OS (are...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Signs of the Times, Redux: The World's Next Mass(ive) Medium?
- In colonial times, journalism was born on broad sheets of cheap paper and the vocal chords of human marketing throats. The long sheets delivered news to those who could read. But in the middle of most cities of any size, from Derby, England, to New York, NY,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Newspapers: 25 things to try before turning off the lights
- Here are some ideas on how newspapers could become viable media businesses: 1: Focus on original content, do not rewrite wire stories or press releases. If newspapers start charging for content people are more likely pay for content they can't get anywhere else. 2: Focus on hyper-local coverage,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Sony to layoff 16,000 employees, loses charm among consumers
- Sony to layoff 16,000 employees, loses charm among consumers"... loses charm among consumers"Although I have loved every Sony product I ever bought and had an extremely good experience with Sony depot repair recently when, after fifteen years of trouble-free service, a stereo I have needed work, I quit buying Sony...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Active Query Builder VCL Free Edition 1.10.5.4 (Windows)
- Active Query Builder is a query builder component suite for Borland Delphi/C++ Builder that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via an intuitive visual interface. It differs from other query builders by its powerful SQL parser that correctly handles SQL queries containing multiple nested joins and other fine...
- Software downloads 2008-11-02
- BI Crystal Ball â€" Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Looking to score some LEED points? Site about eco-design materials offers plenty of ideas
- I saw a billboard in Newark, N.J., today for green paint. I honestly can't remember the name of the brand right now (must not have been a great ad, eh?) but it reminded me of a conversation I had several months back with Matt Grigsby, one of the principals for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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