Vendors have historically focused on the front-end of business intelligence - analytics and so on - but now they're looking at the back-end too - extracting data, storage," he said. Business Objects recently announced its acquisition of fellow BI...
Information from corporate performance management systems is generally presented in a scorecard for company executives. Analytical software maker Cognos announced Tuesday its acquisition of UK-based Softa, a consulting company that specialises in...
Its reputation as aggressor safely established, Oracle is now looking to make friends in an industry transformed by its own multibillion-dollar acquisition spree. Apart from whether there will be another an acquisition, or confirming rumours that...
Oracle plans to team up Hyperion's EPM software with its own Business Intelligence tools and analytic applications, creating an expanded performance management system that includes planning, budgeting, consolidation, operational analytics and...
And SAP's customers had been calling on the enterprise applications giant to add an end-to-end solution for structured and unstructured business analytics and embed them into SAP's business suite, Kagermann noted.
Having the right tools means banks have the option of running analytics in a real-time operating environment without affecting the performance of operational systems. The project was so successful that the same techniques are now being applied...