Business Analytics
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Social networks to augment analytics
News Relational links between people are being applied to refine business analytic findings and reduce rate of false positives, says SAS executive.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Strategic analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAS Institute, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, business analytics, public sector, business intelligence, social networking
Telcos could do more with biz intelligence
News Telecoms operators in the region are not doing enough with business analytics, and could take a leaf from the retail industry, says Frost & Sullivan analyst.
Tags: Support, Data mining & analysis, Operator, Telecommunications, BSS, Asia-Pacific, business analytics, billing system, competitive strategy, Frost & Sullivan
Torex eyes Asia for new growth
News Running petrol kiosks alongside convenience stores is a growing business, where rising oil prices are pushing companies to look at retail to stay afloat.
Tags: Business applications, Sales, Asia, India, Kiosk, business analytics, Europe, Stock, software, petroleum
IBM launches business analytics system
News Bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software, is aimed at helping companies cut deployment time, according to Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Servers, IBM Corp., data mining, business analytics, business intelligence, Hardware, analytics, cost reduction
Adobe acquires Business Catalyst, GoodBarry
News Adobe Systems has agreed to acquire Business Catalyst, maker of e-commerce software suite GoodBarry.
Tags: Business applications, E-commerce, E-business, Adobe Systems Inc., Tool, business analytics, Cisco Catalyst, Programming, brand, Web
IBM roars into business consulting
News Its new 4,000-strong Business Analytics & Optimization Services will mine IBM's research and software divisions for innovations.
Tags: Consulting, IBM Corp., SAS Institute, data mining, Frank Kern, Data-mining Software, business analytics, Sales, software, analytics
APAC govt IT spend cautious, but growing
News Public sector IT spending in the region will grow this year, but is expected to be cautious due to greater scrutiny and need for accountability, finds new report.
Tags: Green IT, Web 2.0, Government, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Japan, compliance, public sector, business intelligence
Firms can gain from proper BPM deployment
Insight perspective Business process management, or "process for processes", helps CIOs anticipate processing issues and optimize efficient processes.
Tags: Process, Business, middle management, Successful Business Process Management, Satishchandra Nayak, ERP, Business Process, BPM, CIO, information technology
Microsoft to acquire ProClarity
News Microsoft hopes to increase its presence in the business intelligence market with the acquisition.
Tags: Acquisitions
Microsoft picks up business analytics tool
News The technology, called Analysis Cubes for Excel, will be one of several extension modules for Great Plains 8.0.
Tags: Business applications
Amazon picks up an intelligent Penguin
News Site deploys Linux-based business-intelligence tools to improve efficiency of its financial budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
Tags: Strategic analysis
Gartner: 85 percent of firms use open source
News The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software.
Tags: Open source, Analyst reports, Software, Open-source Software, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Gartner Inc., intellectual property, barrier
Oracle unveils multi-platform BI suite
News By uniting Siebel's business analytics with its own tools, the software vendor now has a business intelligence suite that works on non-Oracle databases.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Databases, SMB
IBM may open source DB2
News Big Blue is looking into bringing its widely used database software under an open source license, a U.K. director acknowledges.
Tags: Storage, Database management, Open source, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Security, Database, Storage, Environment, data compression
Asia dominates global outsourcing list
News Nineteen cities from the region have made it to the top 50 list of emerging global outsourcing cities, with Cebu City in the Philippines in first place.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Business, City, Outsourcing, Philippines, Shanghai, Business Process, BPO, product development
