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Marketers Are Driven by Inward-Facing Pressures
By David Hatch, Guest Author I just completed another major research study, and for the first time in a long while, I am surprised by the research findings. Not because I discovered something new or strange about end users’ actions and attitudes (that happens within almost every study), but more due to the fact that
Informatica: Acquisition Target?
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading data integration enterprise that serves over 2,850 companies worldwide for their end-to-end data integration needs. The various enterprise-wide data integration and data quality solutions that its products support encompass a vast range including data consolidation, data synchronization, data governance, and data warehousing. INFA’s data quality products also support
Why BI Appliances?
By David Hatch, Guest Author As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, the term “appliance” is now being applied to BI. This term is used to define a technology offering that combines some form of software with some form of either hardware or other platform software (see Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance for a really detailed
“BI Appliances” are Entering the Fray
By David Hatch, Guest Author In May of 2007, Cognos announced the availability of “Cognos Now!”, a “BI Appliance”/SaaS BI offering that comes via the acquisition of Celequest this past January. In June, Ingres (an open source database provider) announced the completion of work on a “BI Appliance” with JasperSoft (a provider of open source
Performance: The Role of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
By David Hatch, Guest Author Businesses thrive or fail based on their ability to identify, define, track and act upon key performance metrics/indicators (KPIs). Executives and line-of-business management are increasingly feeling the pressure to establish the right KPIs to enable timelier and more accurate decisions. The faster and more accurately KPIs can be accessed, reviewed,
Business Objects Looks Great
Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), a French company that provides business intelligence (BI) to enterprises, is riding high on superlative second quarter performance announced on July 25. All its 3 major revenue lines – licensed software (Q2/07 revenue $149 million, up 21% year-over-year), maintenance ($152 million, +23% y-o-y) and global services ($62 million, +29% y-o-y) –
Making Sense of Unstructured Information
By David Hatch, Guest Author Unstructured information is considered by many to represent over 80% of an organization’s data, and yet it remains largely untouched by conventional BI approaches such as query and reporting tools. This includes text analytics and federated search of customer service notes, call center dialog, web pages, web logs, word documents,
Serving the Underserved: Is On-Demand BI the Answer?
By David Hatch, Guest Author In my last post, I discussed how On-Demand BI may not be just for SMBs, based on some recent research findings, and that corporate plans for On-Demand delivery of BI applications (SaaS, Hosting, BI-Appliances) may be gaining ground within organizations of all sizes more rapidly than has been generally reported.
