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  • Make BI business as usual

    Posted December 5, 2011 - 9:53 am

    To get the most out of business intelligence projects, companies need a top-down commitment that permeates the entire organizational culture. At 1-800-Flowers.com, for example, achieving pervasive BI has been a 10-year commitment. (Insider, registration required.)

  • Weaving BI into the corporate fabric

    Posted October 18, 2011 - 9:11 am

    To get the most out of business intelligence projects, companies need a top-down commitment that permeates the entire organizational culture. At 1-800-Flowers.com, for example, achieving pervasive BI has been a 10-year commitment. Insider (registration required)

  • IBM takes its BI capabilities into the data center

    Posted October 11, 2011 - 5:46 pm

    IBM is taking its business analytics capabilities down a new path by making them available to IT organizations to monitor and predict issues with systems and processes.

  • The value of VOC systems

    Posted October 11, 2011 - 11:53 am

    About 20 months ago, Charming Shoppes launched a customer insights project to "deliver actionable customer and market research and analysis to the business," says Jeffrey Liss, who headed up the initiative. Liss is now senior vice president of corporate strategy at the plus-size women's clothing retailer, which includes Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines stores.

  • Amazon can now use analytics on competitors' ads

    Posted October 5, 2011 - 4:08 pm

    Amazon is keeping its friends close and its enemies closer.

  • Build BI tools fast with agile approach

    Posted October 3, 2011 - 8:47 am

    There's heightened interest in agile BI, a rapid development methodology for creating BI systems that involves the end user as early and as often as possible -- and thus saves time and effort.

  • Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI

    Posted September 28, 2011 - 9:38 am

    Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of Microsoft Excel with a new service, Cloud Personal, that is being offered at no charge.

  • New on the iPad: The story of business intelligence

    Posted September 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm

    Mobile business intelligence app developer Roambi wants to marry the excitement of a magazine narrative with the dryness of business intelligence data on the iPad. The goal is to tell the story behind the numbers.

  • Behind with BI? You're not alone.

    Posted September 20, 2011 - 1:15 pm

    If you feel as though your organization is behind the curve with business intelligence, you’ve got plenty of company.

  • Wanted: BI stars

    Posted September 12, 2011 - 10:57 am

    Many businesses are looking to train or hire BI specialists who will be able to cull valuable insights from vast amounts of data. But some are finding that recruiting people with the right mix of IT and business skills is difficult, as is training in-house staffers to take on the role of BI specialist.

  • Using business intelligence to make better business decisions

    Posted June 3, 2011 - 1:11 pm

    "An important thing to remember for user buy-in is that you have to launch a BI program that is business-relevant and focused on a solving a pain-point or realizing a new benefit," says Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, CTO, Reliance Capital. In this installment of Sounding Board, Sandeep and other members of the CIO Executive Council weigh in on using BI to make an impact on the business.

  • 4 money-saving, open source business intelligence suites

    Posted May 25, 2011 - 7:05 am

    Before committing to something that will be sucking rivers of money out of your pocket, take a look at some of these good open source BI offerings. Most of them have free-of-cost community editions and enterprise version free trials so you can try before you buy. It may be that the free versions will meet your needs.

  • BI must become part of broad IT strategy

    Posted May 6, 2011 - 5:07 am

    To be of strategic use, BI systems need to be more forward-looking, said IT managers and analysts at the Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles this week.

  • QlikTech CEO's weapon: Frustration with big BI

    Posted April 1, 2011 - 2:41 pm

    Business users often watch as IT deploys costly, complex BI programs that take months to arrive -- then fail to deliver the needed insights. QlikTech CEO Lars Bjork says you don't have to take it anymore. In this Q&A, he explains how his company's data discovery tools give the power to users -- and even help police crack murder cases.

  • Gartner: BI will be consumed heavily on mobiles in two years

    Posted January 10, 2011 - 11:08 am

    Business intelligence and analytics leaders need to embrace four trends, including the growing popularity of business applications on mobile devices, according to analysts at Gartner.

  • BI requires cultural transformation, says Gartner

    Posted December 17, 2010 - 12:08 pm

    Chief information officers must ensure that business intelligence (BI) programmes are treated as a "cultural transformation of the business, instead of an IT project", analyst house Gartner has said.

  • The App Store Effect on BI Applications and IT

    Posted November 1, 2010 - 8:11 pm

    Execs and managers are desperately seeking instant BI application satisfaction, and IT is trying to keep up. Here's why it may be a losing battle for CIOs, project managers and developers.

  • BI shouldn't look like BI on smart phones

    Posted March 12, 2010 - 5:04 pm

    The emergence of the wireless Web has brought about a mobile intelligence era where classic business intelligence (BI) reports on a smart phone won't render end users the native mobile experience they seek, said an exec with MicroStrategy Inc.

  • SaaS takes on business intelligence

    Posted February 22, 2010 - 4:43 pm

    When considering strategic business intelligence needs, would you put your faith in the cloud? The idea made sense for Distribution Market Advantage. For Creativity Inc., not so much.

  • SAS starts hiring across Canada

    Posted February 9, 2010 - 3:52 pm

    SAS Canada is adding roughly 20 new positions, mostly in sales, to offices across the country.

  • Using Business Intelligence Intelligently

    Posted January 12, 2010 - 7:15 am

    When business intelligence is not smart enough to survive in today's environment, it is time to rethink business intelligence strategies – here are some tips:

  • The Evolution of Business Intelligence

    Posted October 27, 2009 - 9:15 am

    Today's mainstay Business Intelligence (BI) tools are extremely good at tracking raw transactional numbers like sales figures and profit margins. What they fail to adequately address are the root causes, or drivers, of trends in those numbers.

  • Are business intelligence products too sexy?

    Posted October 22, 2009 - 1:05 pm

    Is it possible business intelligence solutions are too sexy for their own good? Yes, according to one Monash University lecturer.

  • BI projects struggle to show value claims survey

    Posted October 20, 2009 - 2:35 pm

    More than three-quarters of business intelligence projects take more than a year to produce meaningful results. And nearly two-thirds of companies who have installed business intelligence systems have done such a poor job they get regular complaints from business users, according to a new survey from Kognitio.

  • SAP, HP to deepen ties around BI

    Posted October 9, 2009 - 8:18 pm

    SAP and its long-time partner Hewlett-Packard will announce plans next week to more closely link their technologies for BI (business intelligence) and data warehousing.
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