Solvency II and Wealth Management – Whither Thy Pension?
Oh how we’d hate to be the public relations firm handling the communications strategy and plan for Solvency II in the European Union (EU). ...
Business Intelligence, Analytics and Seth Godin
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.
TIBCO and Netezza Managing Massive Data for the Financial Services Masses
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...
RuleML09: Rules Matter in CEP
RuleML09 was co-located (and partially consecutively with) BRForum09 this year, and TIBCO presented a keynote on day 2 on why rules matter in CEP...
Intelligent Enterprise Featuring Poll in Innovation in Business Intelligence
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?
BRF09: TIBCO on what’s different about rules in CEP
TIBCO's presentation at BRForum, an event dominated by multiple flavors of "business rule engine" vendors, was not meant to be provocative but simply to...
BRF09: Stephen Hendrick says State is at the center of future Decision Platforms
IDC's Stephen Hendrick gave the keynote on the 2nd day of BRForum, titled "BRMS at a Crossroads". The gist of Stephen's talk was the...
BRF09: Mike Gualtieri says the Future of BREs is CEP
Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri presented on his view of the Complex Event Processing space versus the BRE space - Mike is co-author of both...
Data Visualization Shows the Spread of H1N1
Using data visualization software with dynamic aggregation and filtering, we can easily see how H1N1 has spread throughout the U.S.
Gartner Moves Business Intelligence to 'Advanced Analytics' As Key Trend for 2010
Cloud Computing and Advanced Analytics moved to the head of the class at the Gartner Symposium last week with the IT analyst firm ranking...