Inside the BriefcaseIBM today announced that Santam, South Africa’s leading short term insurance company, has saved $2.4 million on fraudulent claims in the first four months of using IBM business analytics software. The analytics software has enhanced Santam’s fraud detection capabilities and also enabled faster payouts for legitimate claims.
IBM is introducing new offerings to make it easier for business partners and clients to create “patterns of expertise”, a new software capability first introduced as part of IBM’s PureSystems family of expert integrated systems. These patterns are designed to radically streamline the set-up and management of hardware and software resources. (#IBMPureSystems)
New Tools Provide Decision Makers with Rapid Access to Real-Time, Business Critical Information and Actionable Insight to Grow Their Businesses
Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers utilize big data, which consist of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products, standard technologies in big data applications, and a line of products to employ big data in a range of uses.
Much of the recent evolution of the web has been centred on data: data publishing, data exchanges, mashing up and recombining data, and access management of personal and enterprise data that spans both business and social networks.
The changes in the business intelligence market will introduce new trends that companies must address in 2012.
Groupon announced today that their Groupon Now! service has sold 1.5 million vouchers. Groupon Now! deals sold proportionally faster than the original Groupon deals, which took 15 months to reach the same milestone.
The Next Web Conference 2012 has kicked off with differing views on the Internet. Thursday morning’s speakers featured Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit; author Andrew Keen, whose upcoming book, Digital Vertigo, rails against the “cult of the social”; and Dagan Cohen, founder of Upload Cinema.
Twitter made worldwide headlines by promising to refrain from suing other companies and individuals for patent infringement unless certain criteria were met
Although I never imagined myself in this position, it’s happening just like the Precogs said it would: I’m writing about BI and Tom Cruise in the same piece.
LogiXML, the pioneer of web-based business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Atcore Systems, a software consulting and implementation firm, uses LogiXML to bring advanced data visualization and analytics to SugarCRM’s open architecture customer relationship management (CRM) system, one of the most widely used open architecture CRM systems for nonprofits and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This new integration enables these organizations to better manage the way they find, reach, and keep customers.
The business intelligence (BI) vendor selection process can be long, confusing, and complex. Aspects of any BI solution, such as performance, implementation, and long-term costs, are often discussed at a high level, but the details are often missing until the end stages, when dealing with them can be a much bigger pain. Even when discussed, some details are often over-looked or forgotten until it’s too late. Digging into the details as early as possible is necessary to uncover these late-stage landmines.
Gartner’s 2012 predictions for business intelligence focus on the challenges around Cloud, alignment with business metrics and a balanced organisational model between centralised and scattered
Facebook Inc. operator of the world’s biggest social-networking site, accused Yahoo! Inc. of infringing 10 patents through its home page and Flickr photo- sharing service and in ads displayed throughout its site.
Oracle today announced Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Analytics, its intelligent monitoring and management software for Oracle’s StorageTek tape libraries.
Worldwide business intelligence (BI) platform, analytic applications and performance management (PM) software revenue reached $12.2 billion in 2011, a 16.4 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $10.5 billion, according to a report from IT analytics fimr Gartner.
GrapeCity PowerTools, publishers of the award-winning ActiveReports, ActiveAnalysis, and Spread product lines, announced the availability of a new maintenance release of ActiveAnalysis 2 (version 2.1.766.0) with significant feature enhancements.
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation’s largest payments processors, has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise BI standard, replacing its SAP BusinessObjects installation.
Big Data is a hot topic in the data management world. Recently, I’ve seen press and vendors describing it with the words crucial, tremendous opportunity, overcoming vexing challenges, and enabling technology.
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics software will remain front and centre for IT and business agendas in 2012, according to Ovum.
While Leaders and Niche Players abound in Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence, only two companies placed in the Challenger category and Gartner didn’t name any vendors as Visionaries. What gives?
Big data is reshaping business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, massive processing power, and tools like Hadoop, organizations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from it.
Business intelligence (BI) solutions have always been considered an enterprise service. Aggregating data, analyzing reports, and forecasting results have been luxury only midmarket or larger companies can afford. But a recent study from market research firm Techaisle shows that SMBs are beginning to use BI to better understand their businesses, and early adopters of this increasingly affordable technology are all potential clients
Viteos Capital Market Services Ltd. Automates Business Processes to Achieve Global Compliance and Gain Competitive Advantage
ife Care Centers of America has announced the successful deployment of a Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solution in more than 200 skilled nursing facilities nationwide.
Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration software, and Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, jointly announce today a partnership focused on the delivery of high-performance solutions to move Big Data in and out of Apache Hadoop.
Big Data doesn’t do your company much good if those who know your business best can’t harness it to unlock its value.
First Engineered System for In-Memory Decision Support, Online Analytical Processing, Forecasting and Planning
InterSystems Corporation today announced that Hunterdon Healthcare is rolling out a comprehensive business intelligence application that is setting new standards for real-time decision support.
In Australia, representatives from ING Direct, Mirus, NRMA Insurance and Toyota discuss business intelligence challenges at a Gartner summit.
