$14.4B was spent worldwide on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics enterprise software in 2013, increasing 8% from $13.3B in 2012. SAP continues to solidify its market leadership in BI and analytics, generating […]
Executive Summary: Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Hadoop promises to assist with the toughest challenges in BI today, including big data, advanced analytics, and multi-structured data. Review this TDWI Best Practices Report to learn how to integrate Hadoop into […]
Open Source Vendors Blaze a Trail in Advanced Analytics
Gartner gives high marks to open source vendors in its new Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics. For eight years now, Gartner has been issuing a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for business intelligence. The […]
Business Intelligence Tools Help Retailers Simplify Data
BI is helping convenience retailers uncover hidden gems in their business intelligence warehouse. Business Intelligence, a phrase coined in 1865 by Richard Millar Devens in the “Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes,” […]
Review: Tibco Spotfire Mobile Metrics and mobile BI
Will Kelly reviews Tibco Spotfire Mobile Metrics, a new entry into the mobile business intelligence market. Mobile business intelligence (BI) is helping democratize corporate backend data for corporate executives, sales teams, and […]
Hitachi Consulting Acquires Information Management Group (IMGROUP)
Hitachi Consulting Acquires Specialist Information Management and Business Intelligence Consulting Firm – Information Management Group (IMGROUP). This strategic acquisition will further strengthen Hitachi Consulting’s ability to deliver a complete range of strategy, […]
Gartner BI Magic Quadrant: Winners & Losers
Tableau and QlikTech move up. See who moves down in Gartner’s ranking of business intelligence vendors. The more things change, the more they stay the same. That adage could apply to Gartner’s […]
TIBCO Spotfire 6.5 Delivers Dramatically Richer, Easier and Faster Analytics
TIBCO Software Inc. announced the availability of TIBCO Spotfire(R) 6.5, the latest version of TIBCO’s leading analytics platform. Spotfire(R) 6.5 brings to market a user-friendly approach, empowering organizations to easily connect to […]
Big data hype didn’t speed growth in the BI market, Gartner says
All the hype around big data last year didn’t drive big growth in the worldwide BI (business-intelligence) and analytics market, according to research firm Gartner.. While the BI and analytics market grew […]
Cloud-based data analytics levels the BI playing field
Enterprise IT has found the business intelligence value of big data, but SMBs and startups without money or staff have missed out on the benefits of data analytics. Analyzing petabytes and exabytes […]
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