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The Rise and Fall of Qlik
Business intelligence software maker Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ: QLIK) today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $30.50 per share, or about $3 billion. As one of the larg Read more…
BI on Hadoop–What Are Your Options?
In the era of RDBMS and modern data warehouses, business intelligence was mostly a solved problem. Any reasonably advanced tool would work with any reasonable database, and the only real work was deciding what to collect Read more…
Numerify Raises $37.5M in Latest Funding Round
Venture capital continues to flow to data analytics and enterprise IT vendors. For example, the latest funding round for cloud-based business intelligence startup Numerify Inc. raked in $37.5 million from existing invest Read more…
MongoDB Connects With BI, Visual Tools
MongoDB announced a batch of new business intelligence and data visualizations features along with a new way of linking its database to standard versions of the analytics tools. The new capabilities along with a new d Read more…
Seven Steps to Revamping Data Approaches
Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie and Actian Vectorwise General Manager Fred Gallagher teamed up recently to educate the lesser data-driven world about how to tap into the possibilities that everyone keeps saying lie within a firm big data and business intelligence.... Read more…
Updating Views on Business Intelligence
For the most part, businesses know they need some form of business intelligence (BI). Unfortunately, however, many of these businesses end up investing in something like a Hadoop cluster without much of an idea on how or why they use it... Read more…
What Real-Time Really Means
The term ‘real time’ gets thrown around a lot when discussing analytics. While it is okay for big data platforms to take their time when providing long term strategy solutions, businesses need quicker responses when it comes to fraud detection... Read more…
Birst Kicks Data Scientists to the Curb
If you ask business intelligence vendor Birst’s CEO, Brad Peters, about the role of data scientists in many enterprise contexts, there are just a few of them out there. Seven, to be exact, he says facetiously. It is his contention that data scientists are only a small fraction of the users that.... Read more…
Oracle Expert Shares Implementation Key
Oracle BI Architect and Consulting Manager at KPI Partners, Abhinav Banerjee, says business intelligence implementations are often called failures when they fail to meet the required objectives, lack user acceptance or are only implemented after numerous long delays. He shares the key to making sure these are.... Read more…
BIME Brings BigQuery into BI Fold
Like so many business intelligence vendors staking a claim in the big data era, BIME (pronounced as beam) is focusing on advanced analytics that don’t take seasoned experts to guard. In addition to emphasizing usability, the company’s other.... Read more…
Goodnight to BI Performance Claims
Jim Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of analytics software giant SAS says that there are important distinctions between the SQL-based, traditional approaches to business intelligence and the new generation of high-performance analytics.... Read more…
GPUs Set to Boost Business Intelligence
GPU-driven companies like NVIDIA have been emphasizing the practical application of GPU computing in enterprise settings—and this year at their annual GTC conference, there are several compelling sessions for the business intelligence and.... Read more…
Tableau Sharpens Swiss Knife Approach
Business intelligence analytics and visualization startup Tableau has pitched itself as a vendor with the ability to let user data speak in unique ways—and also as a company that has a story that is itself founded in creativity given its founding... Read more…
Another Brick in the Hadoop Wall
Announcements, especially from the business intelligence camp, about Hadoop support have rolled in steadily since mid-last year from vendors like Pentaho, Actuate, Tableau, Jaspersoft, SAS, and a host of others—all of whom... Read more…
How BI is Becoming Crime’s Biggest Enemy
If this last decade is any proof, business intelligence is being harnessed for a wide array of purposes that extend beyond indentifying enterprise or customer trends. Some organizations are using BI for everything from tracking internal progress to…well, fighting crime--and in some rather unique, forward-looking ways.... Read more…
Pentaho Stirs Open Source Kettle
This week open source business intelligence vendor, Pentaho, pushed the code that powers the latest release of their Kettle offering into an Apache 2.0 license, strengthening ties to Hadoop and related projects under the same license.... Read more…
BI Giants Zoom in on Location Intelligence
GIS data is finding frequent use in the enterprise as it is increasingly tied to BI and analytics operations. This week the strategic alliance between Oracle and Teradata focused on an update that provides business intelligence.... Read more…
Partnership Targets BI Scalability
This week analytics platform vendor, ParAccel and Birst, a provider of SaaS and on-premise business intelligence, formed an alliance. Birst will take advantage of the scalable database offerings of ParAccel, while on the flip side, ParAccel will use Birst's BI offering in house. Read more…
Old Dogs Learn New BI Tricks
When a company has the word "micro" in their name, you know they've got some history. Unlike the vast wave of software company deaths caused by a souring economy and rapid technological evolution, those that emerged from the 90s until now have stayed afloat doing just what MicroStrategy has done... Read more…
Research Shoots Hadoop, Clouds Out of the Sky
A recent survey of enterprise business intelligence users revealed that the hype around new frameworks and architectures for big data might be a bit early. On the target list for technologies that are not finding rapid adoption are Hadoop and clouds. Read more…
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