Is BI an opportunity or a minefield?
According to Gartner, business intelligence (BI) has been the top action item for CIOs worldwide for the last year. Only recently displaced, BI remains a close second behind mobility. Since the largest driver for mobility remains BI, it seems the more things change,...
Information Builders named a leader in BI
Gartner has positioned Information Builders in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, based on the evaluation of the company’s WebFOCUS business intelligence suite. According to the report, the BI and analytics...
QlikView positioned in Leaders Quadrant
QlikTech, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced it has been positioned by Gartner, in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform Magic Quadrant report. This designation marks the...
Move from BI to intelligent business
Companies are getting very good at collecting business intelligence - but too few are using it to change the way they interact with customers. Addressing delegates at the Teradata User Group hosted by Bytes Systems Integration in Midrand recently, Teradata’s Rob...
Will the 2013 big data trend last?
No matter which industry users are involved in, the chances that they have heard about the concept of “big data” as a “big” trend for 2013, are quite high. In fact, the IDC is predicting that the big data market will grow at a rate of 31,7% until it reaches...
Oracle announces MySQL 5.6
Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6, the world’s most popular open-source database. With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps users meet the most demanding Web, cloud and embedded application...
Key BI trends for the year ahead
When it comes to predicting key areas of focus for IT in 2013, most analysts agree on three areas: big data; the cloud; and mobility, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. These trends are driven primarily by business’ desire to improve the customer...
The pros and cons of big data
The opportunity to harvest insights from big data, much of which is marketable or can generate income, is obvious gold up for grabs, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge integration Dynamics (KID). Besides that, the transition of data or information from a...
Make sense of data by mining it
As the year starts, the media is filled with analysts and experts from various sectors and industries and their predictions about what the most notable trends will be in the year ahead. Those who are gazing into the proverbial crystal ball on behalf of the IT industry...
QlikTech, Attivio simplify big data
QlikTech, a leader in user-driven business intelligence (BI), and Attivio have announced a partnership to give customers the ability to combine QlikView in-memory data with Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) via QlikView Direct Discovery. QlikTech and Attivio...
Unison launches new BI product
Unison has announced the release of its new business intelligence (BI) offering, Unison Analytics, which has been specifically designed to measure and enhance the management of enterprise communications. “We are extremely excited about this newest addition to the...
Implementing social media analytics
Social media is a treasure trove of insights and useful information, but most people have realised that the path from hype to reality is hardly straightforward or easy to implement. At the heart of the matter, information gleaned from social channels is a combination...