Business Intelligence Headlines
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Kimball University: Handling Arbitrary Restatements of History
Here's how data warehouse pros can cope with the common requirement to look back in time.
How do you cope with an executive's request to "bring back a time series of activity for all subscribers who were in platinum status as of X date," or "show me a time series of orders by sales region according to the sales organization as of Y"? Here's how data warehouse pros can cope with the common requirement to look back in time. Read More . . .
Source: ComputerWorld.com
Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
Whether you incorporate these technologies or not, they're not going away, the research firm says
October 09, 2007 (Computerworld) -- ORLANDO -- Gartner Inc. has put "Green IT" at the top of its list of 10 strategic technologies for next year, and the research firm says that if businesses don't improve data center energy efficiency, the government may force them to do so. Read More . . .
Source: IntelligentEnterprise.com
SAP-Business Objects Deal Advances Move Toward Smart Apps
Transaction management and decision-support systems are coming together, with business intelligence and analytics embedded in applications and business processes.
"It's a pivotal day in the history of these two companies," said Business Objects CEO John Schwarz of SAP's planned $6.8 billion acquisition of the BI vendor. He might as well have been speaking about the history of two IT environments, that is, transaction management platforms and decision-support systems, that have experienced a tectonic shift closer together with this deal and with the many consolidations in BI market in 2007. It's a shift that comes largely in response to customer demands, with the lines between the two worlds blurring as organizations call for decision-making intelligence to be built right into business processes and applications. Read More . . .
Source: Gartner.com
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07
The business intelligence platform market is dominated by traditional pure-play BI vendors, but several large application and software infrastructure vendors became much stronger BI competitors in 2006.
What You Need to Know
The goal of this Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms (see Figure 1) is to present a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications. Buyers should evaluate vendors in all four quadrants, including those from the Niche Players and Visionaries quadrants, as these vendors are driving innovation in many areas such as interactive visualization, in-memory data analysis, real-time dashboards, wizard-based application development and spreadsheet-based reporting. The scores and commentary in this document are substantially based on customer perceptions of each vendor's strengths and challenges derived from BI-related inquiries that Gartner performed in 2006. To assist with the evaluation, participating vendors were asked to complete a survey about their BI strategy and operations. Gartner analysts also performed a detailed analysis of the technical capabilities of each BI platform.Read More . . .
