Educators have been trying for decades to agree on key performance indicators for public schools or even whether KPIs can be used at all. One entrepreneur who envisioned a business intelligence-like service for schools thinks he's figured it out.
SAS says it's making predictive analytics safe -- and highly-usable -- for the enterprise
Many BI pros are already working with PerformancePoint -- some in production -- while still others are anxious to put it through its paces in their environments
BI was made for economic slowdowns, and over the coming year it may get a chance to show its stuff.
IBM’s acquisition of Cognos was explained in greater detail last week; we explore the impact for BI practitioners
As enterprise and mobile applications converge, users will demand consistency on mobile devices.
With text analytics poised for growth -- especially as a means to parse and index unstructured data -- it's a propitious time for SPSS
Data modeling, proponents say, can help insulate an organization against change. Sounds good -- but is it true?
We look at the important drivers behind the demand for real-time data this year
As business intelligence grows in importance within corporations, so does the importance of data integration (DI) -- essentially, the process of combining data from different sources into a single unified view for users. An historic linkage between BI and DI has grown in the last three to five years as enterprises focus more on data quality, and on the need to share data across the enterprise.
Datupia's Foster Hinshaw discusses the rapidly evolving state of the data warehousing market and the benefits and drawbacks of the appliance model
Bundling agreements can be beneficial for both vendors and their customers, who are exposed to more BI functionality. However, there are risks for the customer.
Will MySQL transform Sun into a BI and DW force to be reckoned with?
Oracle, IBM, and SAP sit atop the performance management heap, but several best-of-breed players are doing their best to keep things interesting
IBM's acquisition of Cognos may not change much in the short term, but will it dampen user enthusiasm for the new Cognos 8.3 release?
How to streamline the information extraction process
In a recent survey, more than 63 percent of IT professionals said business intelligence tools are important to their operations.
How to streamline the information extraction process
There's plenty of action afoot in the teeming data warehouse appliance market
IBM pushes ECM as a complement to bread-and-butter data warehousing