Analytics

Author and marketing guru Seth Godin makes a strong case for business intelligence and analytics in his recent blog posting, “When data and decisions collide.” Seth’s premise is that sometimes, despite overwhelming data, hunches sometimes don’t match the data in front of us. Data mining, business intelligence and analytics make accessing and analyzing data much easier, but perhaps don’t necessarily make the decision-making easier.

Dan Vesset is Program Vice President of IDC's Business Analytics research.  Mr. Vesset’s research is currently focused on the business intelligence and analytic applications...

Visit Intelligence Enterprise (lower left on the page) and you can participate in a poll on innovation in business intelligence. Specifically, the question posed is: which innovation will be most important in the next era of business intelligence?

Using data visualization software with dynamic aggregation and filtering, we can easily see how H1N1 has spread throughout the U.S.

Cloud Computing and Advanced Analytics moved to the head of the class at the Gartner Symposium last week with the IT analyst firm ranking...

Cloud Computing and Advanced Analytics moved to the head of the class at the Gartner Symposium last week with the IT analyst firm ranking...

Research firm AMI Partners (AMI) has released a report that details how cost-conscious businesses are turning to business intelligence software for a competitive advantage. ...

In this interview, John Colbert, vice president of research and analysis for BPM Paartners, discusses how to get stalled business intelligence projects back on track.

Agile development is being merged with Business Intelligence to create smaller-scale, rapid-results with analytics applied to corporate data.

Agile development is being merged with Business Intelligence to create smaller-scale, rapid-results with analytics applied to corporate data.