Ventana Research 2009 in Review: Innovation Expands Scope of Business Intelligence
We’ve highlighted several trend predictions for business intelligence and analytics for 2010; now we’ll look at Ventana Research’s 2009 Business Technology Priorities in Review. According to Ventana, their look back “offers not only a history, but some lessons learned as well, and some food for thought as we enter 2010.” Ventana’s perspective covers a wide range of business technologies, but we’ll focus on their observations regarding business intelligence and analytics.
Share Your Thoughts on Business Intelligence, Performance Management and More
Every year at this time, BPM Partners launches its annual BPM Pulse Survey. The Survey asks end users key questions on the usage of business intelligence, analytics, and performance management technologies.
“It’s All About the Analytics”
We here at Spotfire spend a lot of time and energy marketing around Analytics and Visualization. We believe strongly that business intelligence analytics and...
The Alphabet Soup of Business Intelligence
Depending on one’s perspective, business intelligence (BI) can be a discipline unto itself, a superset and even a subset of other business information systems. ...
Chevron “Blind Faith” Counts On Analytics and Business Intelligence To Fill Your Tank
Next time the price of gasoline has jumped or fallen a few pennies, you might pause a moment to consider the years of planning,...
Forrester’s Analytics Predictions for 2010
Forrester Analyst James Kobielus (@jameskobielus) shared his business intelligence and advanced analytics predictions for 2010 in a recent posting on The Forrester Blog for Business Process & Applications Professionals. Kobielus' predictions are in accordance with several emerging end user trends.
Can Analytics Fight Crime?
Two computer science graduate students at University Maryland, College Park used Spotfire's analytics to understand crime on campus. Their goal was to see if they could use analytics to identify crime hot spots, peak hours, and maybe even prevent crime.
Q-and-A Seth Grimes, Analytics Analyst
Seth Grimes is an analytics strategy consultant at Alta Plana Corporation, located near Washington DC. Seth is also a leading industry observer, focusing on...
CEP: more than event patterns
One of the interesting aspects of "complex event processing" is that "processing" typically encompasses MORE than just event pattern detection (in many use cases)....
New Approaches and Targeted Analytics for the Data Center
Companies are rethinking how to build a data center – from the ground up. From automated air handling controls to bi-level design, improvements in...