Data & Analytics

Business intelligence (BI) developer Cognos Inc. announced Wednesday that it will continue to lend support to IBM Corp.

Vendors in the BI (business intelligence) arena are maneuvering to empower end-users with the ability to customize analytic applications in an effort to meet evolving business needs.

The lines between data and process integration are blurring as vendors link traditional business intelligence with enterprise application integration. BI and EAI vendors are tying message feeds with analytics to provide real-time visibility through BAM (business activity monitoring), an emerging technology that provide access to critical business performance indicators.

A survey from research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. of Stamford, Conn., reveals that companies expect to halve process cycles over the next five years but IT managers are pessimistic about ability to move systems to real-time this decade.

The Gartner report earlier this year Supply Chain Management: Evolving Beyond Linear Interactions, claimed that new SCM technology allows companies to move toward real-time operation by sharing information and interlacing processes with trading partners.

Business intelligence software and services provider SAS earlier this year unveiled a new suite of solutions said to solve critical supply chain problems.

Vigilant in the quest to deliver real-time data, BI (business intelligence) and enterprise application vendors are turning to analytic tools in an attempt to energize the supply chain.

Building on the momentum it gathered earlier this year, IBM Corp. last month identified four additional verticals to which it will offer products for its grid-computing strategy.