Data Warehousing/business Intelligence
38 Stories
S'pore supply chain firm delivers on innovation
Insight Business intelligence tools need reinvention and a slower economy could be the best time to try new things, says YCH Group's CIO James Loo.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Leadership, RFID, Database, Innovation, SCM, CIO, business intelligence
Technology is a 'double-edged sword'
Insight newsmaker Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil weighs in on human vs machine intelligence, and the dangers of advanced technologies.
Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Intelligence, Gene, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, RNA, emotional intelligence, voice recognition software
Seeing into the future with IT
Insight newsmaker Chakib Bouhdary, SAP chief value officer, on how the economic downturn is changing CEOs' decisions and technology choices in business today.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Leadership, SAP AG, Asia, Chinese company, CEO, China, finance, acquisition, Brazil
Future of BI: Web 2.0, mashups and guided search
Insight Business intelligence is due for a renaissance, say industry watchers. Here's what it might look like in a few years' time.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Web 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Data, Supplier, Gartner Inc., business intelligence, VP, mashup
UK authorities deny prototype intercept database
News Security experts understand that a prototype centralized database has been built, to test whether all U.K. citizens' communications information can be stored.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Privacy, Security, Booth, Database, Spokesperson, U.K., Web, Home Office, Privacy
IBM makes business dashboards mobile
News The company is adding new software and consulting services to its lineup, in an effort to charm mobile enterprises.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Smart phones, BlackBerry, Mac OS, IBM Corp., Mobile, Cloud Computing, Dashboard, software, software product
Microsoft backtracks on free Office Live domains
News Software maker started charging new customers for domain renewals last year, but had told early customers domains would be registered for free "in perpetuity".
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web services, Business, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Web servers, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Domain Name, Domain, Small Business, e-mail
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
BI paves the way for ERP
News Business intelligence adoption provides SAP an inroad to sell its main enterprise resource planning product to companies in Asia-Pacific region, says executive.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAP AG, Asia, Business Objects, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., ERP, Japan, CIO
Cloud, mobile take intelligence to shop floor
News Mobile devices and cloud computing pave ways to reach more employees, but cloud holds some limitations for enterprises, says QlikTech executive.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Data mining & analysis, Cloud computing, Applications and tools, Software, Cloud, Mobile, Mobile Device, Sales, Software
BI comes to Kindle--will companies care?
News Business intelligence provider MicroStrategy says it will make its business reports and dashboards accessible through Amazon's Kindle DX reader.
Tags: Handhelds, Business applications, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Device, E-book, phone, Dashboard, business intelligence, music player, Apple iPod Touch
Business intelligence has downturn upturn
News Worldwide revenue for technology related to business intelligence, analytics applications and performance management grew 22 percent in 2008 to over US$8.8 billion, says Gartner.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, IT budgeting, SAP AG, Business Objects, Gartner Inc., research analyst, business intelligence, analytics, revenue, analyst
Hard times boost demand for intelligence
News Tough economic environment sees slower growth but more pervasive use of business intelligence in companies as workers seek timely, accurate information, says IDC.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Knowledge management, IT Budget, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Tool, Australia, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), business intelligence
Business intelligence tools up for the recession
News The economic downturn could unleash BI tools to more in the workplace. But what pitfalls await managers who want to spread the technology to ordinary staff?
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Content management, Tool, Gartner Inc., desktop tool, PA Consulting, business intelligence, performance, recession, financial
SAS chief dismisses Teradata merger speculation
News Hardware barriers effectively block any union with Teradata, Dr Jim Goodnight has said, adding that he is losing no sleep over rival business-intelligence "mega-vendors".
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., SAS Institute, SAP AG, business intelligence, Hardware, barrier, Teradata, alliance
