Business Intelligence – Page 10

Online Community Attracts Technology Stars

By Melody Smith | November 4, 2010

Informatica Corporation, provider of data integration software, shares a growing momentum for the Informatica Marketplace – an online community that connects vendors, partners and individual developers to enable them to share data integration solutions within an open and comprehensive ecosystem of more than 120,000 active users.

A Leader in Business Intelligence

By Melody Smith | October 29, 2010

According to a new October 2010 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc., Oracle is a leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms. BI is defined as a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making.

What to do with all this data?

By Melody Smith | October 15, 2010

Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.

Business Intelligence Technology

By Melody Smith | October 13, 2010

Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages, now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.

Finding Operational Business Intelligence in Unstructured Data

By Melody Smith | September 22, 2010

The unregulated growth of unstructured data has left many companies with terabytes of valuable business information locked inside obsolete data sitting idly by sucking up resources instead of providing revenue producing information. Digitiliti, Inc. finds the value of corporate data and transforms it into beneficial, contributing data.

Researchers Seek Better Business Intelligence

By Melody Smith | September 10, 2010

Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University have joined an initiative aiming at creating new Internet search tools that will enable enterprises to extract better business intelligence from the semantic web.