Data & Analytics

Commitment to customers, product development and the real-time enterprise was the message PeopleSoft Inc.

Web measurement tools are evolving from simple page-hit counters to core business analysis applications. Demands on Web data are causing automakers to look for more robust measurement and reporting tools, notes Forrester Research.

The American Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, the new Basel Capital Accord and the subsequent fallout may be a worry for most companies, but it proves the value of BI and data warehousing. At least that's the take by Gary Saarenvirta, chief operating officer, Adastra Corp. of Markham, Ont.

Profits, revenue and company reputation are the top three casualties of poor decision-making, according to 80 per cent of respondents in a survey of 158 top-tier executives at large U.S. corporations.

Cognos Inc. and Business Objects SA in September unveiled new BI products. Cognos introduced ReportNet, a query...

The Internet has buried companies under a mudslide of unstructured data. One of the most pressing problems facing IT is how to turn all that data that won't fit into rows and columns into useful information. And while the amount of unstructured data is growing exponentially, the tools for dealing with it haven't kept pace.

There has been considerable consolidation among business intelligence (BI) software vendors. Just this year, Hyperion Solutions bought Brio Software; Business Objects bought Crystal Decisions; and the CEO of Information Builders has reportedly said a purchase is very likely next year.

IBM Corp. sought to advance its US$10 billion on-demand computing initiative on several fronts last week, announcing new grid software for aggregating computing resources and middleware for extending business applications to mobile devices. Chief executive officer Sam Palmisano, too, lent his weight to the cause, reiterating IBM's on-demand vision before a gathering of venture capitalists and software vendors.