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Consumerization of BI: Handing the Tool Right to the User
By Lachlan James | Nov 28 2012
The traditional image of business intelligence dashboards is of stale, old fashioned visualizations that seem to view intuitiveness and clarity as foreign concepts. As the current trend of IT consumerization spreads to BI, Yellowfin's Lachlan ... Read More
4 BI Vendors Using Impala to Supercharge Hadoop
By Mark Aspillera | Nov 22 2012
As a distributed file system for organizing and analyzing big data (think pedabytes), Hadoop has a lot of things going for it: affordability, scalability and flexibility to name a few, yet it's far from perfect. Read More
HPCC Systems: A New Approach to Open-Source Big Data
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 19 2012
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a big data veteran, and their HPCC systems are a direct competitor of Apache Hadoop. We spoke with Flavio Villanustre, Vice President of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, on their strategic advances and what ... Read More
Boost BI User Adoption with Embedded Analytics
By Lachlan James | Nov 12 2012
Companies continue accumulating more data into vast digital warehouses, and the potential benefits of deploying advanced analytics on that data rises too. Yellowfin's Lachlan James looks at why a solution embedded into existing software might ... Read More
SAP BusinessObjects vs. Oracle Business Intelligence
By James Sullivan | Nov 01 2012
With these SAP and Oracle so clearly dominating the BI segment, a logical question—and one that we’ve seen before in the Business-Software.com Community—is how do SAP BusinessObjects and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition compare? Read More
Top BI Solutions for Small Business
By James Sullivan | Oct 30 2012
For a while, business intelligence software was too expensive and too complex to meet the needs of small businesses. Today, thanks in part to cost savings afforded by the cloud, there are a host of ... Read More
In-Memory Data Grids and Hadoop: Sorting Your Big Data
By Mark Aspillera | Oct 25 2012
One of the hottest fields in technology today is planning and developing the systems that can allow humans to not just sort through that tidal wave, but derive actionable insights from it. Read More
Space-Time Insight Promotes BI at the Speed of Thought
By Nathan Rowan | Oct 08 2012
Space-Time Insight looks beyond big data analytics to get at "the speed of thought," allowing companies to troubleshoot problems before they even occur through predictive analysis. CEO Rob Schilling joined us for an in-depth discussion ... Read More
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Appian Merges Social Media with BPM [Q&A]
By Mark Aspillera | Sep 26 2012
Enterprise social has seen huge consolidations in the past few years, but the verdict is still out as to whether it gives any real productivity boost. We talked to Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, to ... Read More
ParAccel Delivers a High-Performing Platform for Big Data Analytics
By Darlene Lin | Sep 12 2012
ParAccel CEO Chuck Berger discusses the business benefits of big data analytics and how ParAccel’s platform enables organizations to effectively analyze data for business improvement and growth. Read More