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DATA WAREHOUSING/BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MasterCard International's technology operation is best known for authorizing, clearing and settling transactions the moment a credit card is swiped. But it's how that information is processed when it reaches their massive data warehouse that helps the credit-card giant make more effective business decisions.
Users want a single source of business intelligence that binds many data repositories. Is it finally within their grasp?
There's a transformational change going on in business intelligence. Next-generation BI promises speedier, automated decision-making, thanks to affordable computing and storage platforms and advances in business activity monitoring. We assess the changes in the market.
Spending on business intelligence in IT departments is picking up steam, two market research reports say.
Cognos has partnered with IBM and Google to connect their enterprise search engines with its business intelligence software in order to expand its use among corporate workers.
A large amount of overlapping functionality between business intelligence and enterprise content management tools indicates that BI will become an integral part of the ECM framework in coming years, our expert argues. (Courtsey: Business Intelligence Pipeline)
In an effort to provide software development customers with business intelligence capability, IBM will add Crystal reporting functionality to its WebSphere Studio and Rational Software tools.
Hosted systems can expand access to analytic information. But Ventana Research recommends evaluating SaaS models for particular business needs and to determine how they can work together with internally deployed BI applications.
The business intelligence supplier debuts data federation and metadata management tools and offers new versions of its Crystal Reports software.
Enterprise applications such as BI (business intelligence) and BPM (business process management) suites let IT support the increasing need for on-demand, near-real-time analysis and process automation. Find out which of this year's products improve the automation of human workflow processes and raise the bar for providing real-time data analysis capabilities to decision-makers.
True alignment between IT and the business means both units together define the best direction for the organization to pursue--and IT shouldn't be afraid to take the lead.
Big Blue is the latest big software vendor to buy a business intelligence startup.
A single-instance ERP app provides a new method of distributing data to remote users.
In this edition, we look at Fujitsu's eight-socket blade server powered by dual-core AMD Opteron processors. We also spotlight IBM's DB2 Data Warehouse Edition 9.1, NeoScale Systems' CryptoStor KeyVault and more.
Larry Ellison wants to put more Oracle software--above and beyond the database--on every server.
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