For BI professionals, it was a year in which several long-simmering trends seemed to coalesce and boil over.
It’s been a year of great change, and there’s more ahead. JasperSoft’s CEO takes a look at four key trends for 2009 that will have an impact on BI.
Existing DI and DQ tools can't easily be adapted to address product data integration. What's needed, proponents say, is a better, dedicated tool.
QlikTech believes its QlikView product will benefit disproportionately from a projected surge in BI spending
Integrating BI, content management, and portals has long been a challenge for IT. Open source has a price advantage, but is it right for you?
A look at the trends that left their mark in 2008, plus what's ahead in 2009.
A new study from IDC shows that which companies continue to dominate the data warehousing market and which are enjoying surging growth
Mid-market shoppers at the recent Sage Summit Customer Conference wanted to try BI by the slice, and many didn't even call it BI. Vendors' pitches kept that in mind.
When times are tight, BI can actually save you money.
How Best-in-Class companies make the most of BPM
SAP and Business Objects tout an all-in-one migration service that's purpose-built for SAP environments.
Keeping up on trends, warnings, threats, and insights within unstructured text is a daunting task. Scientific researchers have the toughest job of all, and some have turned to flexible text analytics.
Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.
As the complexity of e-commerce grows and security demands escalate, more companies are turning to ready-made “shopping cart” applications instead of building their own. Such products can use business intelligence and security, among other things, to process e-commerce transactions online.
Politics can provide many valuable lessons. The power of business intelligence, as clearly demonstrated by the TV election coverage, is one of them.
If you don't understand your business processes and don't have talented staff, even best-in-class analytics can't save you.
Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.
In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate how organizations are managing the total cost of BI implementations.
We examine how companies are managing data growth and an often complex data infrastructure in order to drive value from BI tools.
Open source BI vendors believe their value proposition looks even better at a time when buyers are cinching up their purse strings.