Monday - May 5, 2008
"Too much information is a dangerous thing" -- how often have we all heard that expression? Maybe it should be "too much inaccurate information is a catastrophic thing." Never has so much data been collected and stored within organizations. Smart organizations want to make use of this data, not only to keep the organization going, but also to gain competitive advantage, or make a better, more efficient and effective workplace. Business leaders agree that business intelligence and analytics, based upon accurate information, are key components in achieving this.
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Saturday - May 3, 2008
Teller-line capture. Customer relationship management software. Real-time alerts. Threat detection and recovery, branch automation, in all its flavors, is here to stay, and community bankers are increasingly embracing it. Atlantic Southern Bank, decided to automate the way it reviewed its financial numbers by signing on with Banker's Dashboard. The results were immediate.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
Combining in-memory data management, visual analytics, social networking and rich Internet applications, Software as a Service and open source software development, companies such as Advizor Solutions, Fractal Edge, Greenplum, LucidEra and others are filling what was an open niche in the BI marketplace, Gartner's BI research team has found.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
With the rapid advance of SaaS offerings, data warehouse or business intelligence appliances, and BI capabilities embedded within enterprise applications, companies are now faced with a variety of new deployment options for BI. Traditional on-premise software installations still prevail as the dominant method for BI deployment, but alternative approaches are rapidly taking root and gaining attention within the maturing BI marketplace.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
In a year of consolidation in a hot business intelligence marketplace, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP secured leading positions in 2007. This has cleared the way for a new generation of BI specialists to emerge and take root. "We like to compare the massive consolidation we saw in 2007 to a forest clearing. As the older, taller trees are chopped down, it enables the newer growth to flourish," said Ken Rudin, CEO of LucidEra.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA event taking place in Las Vegas this week. The buffed-up SOA software -- Version 6.1 -- and IBM's RFID Information Center will be the two main product spotlights at the event. The cumulative effect of the improvements is that users will find it far easier to gather, analyze and act upon data.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
Candidates, political parties and money might seem to dominate the upcoming 2008 U.S. presidential election, but when it comes to voter relationship management, software rules campaigns and politicking. When U.S. citizens cast a legal ballot, they do so as part of a vast process of interconnected relationships with 175 million other registered U.S. voters.
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Thursday - March 20, 2008
Retailers in Japan and South Korea have been using image capture technology for several years now, and with the growing base of smartphones, companies in the U.S. are rolling out a wide range of new mobile applications, including some that use interactive digital symbols captured in photos to provide customers with product information, prices and incentives on the spot.
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Thursday - March 13, 2008
Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS, edited by Gerhard Svolba, is another useful SAS book that is specifically designed for business but still can be used in other disciplines. Steps and points in preparations and acquisition of data were described by an experienced analyst that will help a beginner following the logic steps.
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Thursday - March 6, 2008
Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on the top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off between depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can't get the full, integrated picture across mixed systems with sufficient clarity.
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Thursday - February 28, 2008
Business intelligence doesn't have to be a pie-in-the-sky, big-bang, strategic project that takes years to perfect before it generates a return. For those who get it right, the benefits can be as close as your nearest cash register, as immediate as your next purchase order and as dramatic as capturing thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
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