Business Intelligence (BI)

Best practices, news, tips and trends for capitalizing on BI (business intelligence).

Early Adopters

A Sensible Approach to Big Data

Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social media to Internet search results and the ever-present email, the rate of data creation is growing exponentially with no signs of slowing. Full Story »
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Wall Street Beat: Market Stokes Tech IPOs, As Tableau and Marketo Debut

IPOs ride the market rise, but not all tech companies may benefit

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SAP Builds Out HANA Platform and Ecosystem

SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud

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How Big Data Can Improve Marketing and Customer Service

Big data is poised to help marketers reach and engage customers and prospects in ways that businesses are only now starting to understand. Enterprises that don't embrace analytics may soon see embattled customers voting with their wallets.

Early Adopters

It's Not the Size of Your Data, It's How You Use it

Data -- whether it is defined as 'big' or 'little' -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest companies with the biggest budgets and most sophisticated IT staff. In essence, it's not the size of the data, but how you use it that really matters.

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Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data

Higher education is stepping up its efforts to teach big data analytics and business intelligence, but professors say they need businesses that depend on data to work with them to provide students with real data and real business problems to solve.

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Crowdsourcing Offers a New and Wider Path to Innovation

GE, Allstate try crowdsourcing contests where external brainiacs compete to produce the best answers to big-data analytics questions.

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Pivotal Launched From VMware, EMC Technologies

General Electric has invested $105 million in the new company

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Infor Partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered Cloud Analytics Platform

Amazon's Redshift service will provide the data warehouse underpinnings for SkyVault

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What IBM's X86 Exit May Mean for Rivals

IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

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Oracle Rolls Out New In-memory Applications, Scaled-down Big Data Appliance

The new applications take advantage of Oracle's 'engineered systems'

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4 Barriers Stand Between You and Big Data Insight

A majority of organizations believe that big data can give them a competitive advantage, but nearly 60 percent also believe that moving from data to insight is a major challenge. Consulting firm PwC says four barriers stand between your operation and data insights.

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Oracle Expands Data Sources for Business Intelligence Software

New releases of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery and its Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite feature ways to import data

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5 Strategic Tips for Avoiding a Big Data Bust

Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn't pay .

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Healthcare CEO Expects IT to Keep Firm Ahead of the Curve

For Craig Smith, of Owens and Minor, IT is essential to employee collaboration, innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in a fast-changing industry.