Still, Microsoft's entry into business intelligence software does portend price pressure. Hagerty pointed to two companies - Crystal Decisions and Actuate - as rivals in the business-reporting, or business intelligence, niche that might feel the...
Accenture said there is an explosive increase in data - with new technologies such as RFID adding to the pressure. Gerry Cohen, president and CEO of BI company Information Builders, said the trend will be towards adding BI into an organisation's...
Taking the data held in your business systems and analysing it to make better decisions about the direction of the organisation would seem to be a pretty standard move. When done well, business intelligence (BI) can bring big benefits - it can be...
Pure-play BI vendors may not feel an immediate impact, although they are already being squeezed by Oracle and SAP and feeling the pressure from smaller, innovative vendors such as Spotfire, Tableau and QlikTech that focus on lower total cost of...
Although this is not a trivial task, the investment in time spent doing this is outweighed by the benefits of location intelligence, gaining better insight into an organisation's competitive environment, reducing business costs, minimising risk...
In the light of recent events, no one would argue against the need for a review of the security principles that run through every aspect of data handling within the public sector. Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological...