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Peter Dorrington, head of fraud solutions at SAS UK, said: "They want to go beyond an intelligence-led approach to look at actual data. Data mining technology from the US business intelligence software company will be used.
This is a combination of two recognised and highly respected leaders," he said. Business Objects competes with Cognos, Hyperion Solutions and SAS in the 'business intelligence' software market, one of the few bright spots in the ailing business...
The vendor's interpretation was that "while they are removing spreadsheets they are failing to re-engineer their budgeting processes to leverage the real power of sophisticated software solutions". This includes vendors such as Business Objects...
Bill Hostmann, research VP at Gartner, told silicon.com: "Organisations are using business intelligence broadly to access and analyse their information assets, to understand what happened, why did it happen and what will happen in their business.
M&As should also be viewed as an opportunity to enhance staff and assets, and not just a "scary, onerous burden", while risk management and legal expertise are two more areas that the CIO is in a good position to contribute to the due diligence...