Seagate software is giving two of its major business intelligence software products away for free, in the hope that the move will encourage widespread adoption of its software. Donald McComick, Seagate's product director in EMEA, said: "Currently...
Companies will face a skills shortfall as business intelligence requirements jump three fold in the next three years. And the business intelligence crisis will be further exacerbated by a misunderstanding between CEOs and IT departments on what...
For instance, a traditional data warehouse system might tell a retailer how many units of product x it sold in a certain region last month, enabling the company to plan inventory levels for the following month.
On the heels of open source databases come business-intelligence tools, with smaller companies betting on open source practices to crack into that corner of the software market. One such company, JasperSoft, is set to detail its plans to expand its...
One way to avoid this is to create a middleware layer between the reporting application and the disparate underlying data sources. Financial data is extracted from a mainframe-based data warehouse, and married with other inputs.
That civil servants can't even assess security threats beggars belief. The technical risks are nothing compared with ignorance at board level," he said in a panel discussion at a British Computer Society (BCS) security event this week.