Dashboards and scorecards now comprise powerful tools for monitoring and alignment. The trick, experts say, is to know which technology to use, and why.
BI and DW pros enjoy simultaneously straddling both the IT and line-of-business sides of the divide.
Here it comes: Oracle 11g is en route!
Going with the flow, InetSoft embraces open standards while pushing operational business intelligence.
And with strong top-down support right out of the gate, itfs no wonder dashboards have such canft-miss momentum.
Haven’t we been here before (20 years ago), when executive information systems first came to the fore? Yes and no, experts say.
Get the skinny on the business intelligence tools market.
IBM positions the DataMirror acquisition as a coup for its ever-expanding information management portfolio. No surprise there!
We keep hearing about SOA, but what does it mean, really?
Teradata users have been cautiously optimistic all along, and as things come down to the wire, user optimism seems to be growing.
Scaling complex BI deployments isn’t getting any easier, Cognos and Appfluent say.
The BI Top Five is essentially unchanged from last year. In fact, the top four BI players seem to have dug themselves in for the long haul.
Even the mighty Microsoft now plays in the MDM space.
Data visualization seems to be getting hotter, as evidenced by TIBCO’s acquisition of data viz specialist Spotfire.
Don’t look now, but Office and Excel are shaping up as PerformancePoint Server’s biggest competition.
What do Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have going for them, and where do they need to improve if they’re to tackle the best-of-breeds?
So much for SAP not being willing to spend, at least at a pace with rival Oracle Corp., to acquire talent and technology.
Keep your friends close and your partners closer, as it were.
BI-er beware: having a dashboard isn’t the same thing as having data visualization technology, much less a data visualization strategy.