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Rating The Performance Management Vendors

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, December 22, 2005
12:34 PM

You want fair, objective software rankings? We've got them. In fact, we run them all the time. And our latest set of reviews, new this week, covers performance management tools.

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Posted by ted kemp
Monday, December 19, 2005
4:26 PM

We've seen the big enterprise software giants buy small analytics firms, such as IBM's acquisition of Alphablox in 2004. Nothing new there. But now some people on Wall Street are asking: Is one of the pure-play BI firms ripe for the picking? At least one equity analyst thinks so.

Posted by ted kemp
Friday, December 16, 2005
12:20 PM

Let's forget business intelligence for a second so I can show you something. If you love gadgetry and hate holiday shopping as much as I do, you've got to see this.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, December 15, 2005
4:31 PM

Where reports and analytical information are usually found, the people who need them often are not. Those workers are out in the field, roaming on the road. That, in a nutshell, is the reason business intelligence for mobile devices has a big future. But the IT side has a long way to go before it can give the roaming user masses what they want.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
6:09 PM

We ran the story two months ago now. It's been out there on the site, stubbornly lingering. And if you haven't read it yet, you might want to.

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, December 12, 2005
5:08 PM

Last year, in our Business Intelligence Pipeline Voting Booth, we asked the readers to rate the overall quality of their data for analytical purposes: excellent, good, fair or poor. Respondents leaned toward the bad news end of the spectrum. This year asked the same question again, and it looks like things have, in fact, gotten worse.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, December 8, 2005
1:38 PM

Q: How are data schema like word processing programs?

A: Nobody will use 95 percent of the features built into them.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
4:14 PM

I've said it before. I'll say it again. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is going to slam the practice of business intelligence in the supply chain.

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, December 5, 2005
3:22 PM

As most of us know by now, Google has decided to crash yet another party. This time it's not search, Web-based e-mail or classifieds that the Great Disrupter has decided to take on. It's Web analytics. And a lot of firms thinking of buying a new online analytics package should look into Google before making their decision.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, December 1, 2005
1:54 PM

Lots of companies use business intelligence to track their customers, help with compliance or tackle other operational trends inside the enterprise walls. But what about BI and supply chains? Turns out, supply chains don't lend themselves to analytics as much as many a BI pro might like.