Intelligent Enterprise

BI & SaaS: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
06.12.2008

Mark Smith

We are seeing organizations that were previously handcuffed by IT inaction and lack of focus on BI now turning to software as a service (SaaS)... The combination of BI and SaaS introduces the concept of "BI as a Service" that can complement or be an alternative way of accelerating business intelligence in an organization.

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Neil Raden

The Most Important Thing I Learned About Consulting Is to Watch Ghostbusters
05.22.2008
Ghostbusters is perhaps the single best training film for consultants I've come across. In simple words, they embody all the right stuff for a successful consultant which is, lets face it, a real craft, not just something to do between jobs. With motivational thoughts about teamwork, confidence, authenticity, client management and the projection of competence, these guys have it knocked...

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Cognos Gets 'Flashier'
05.19.2008

Cindi Howson

Close to 4,000 customers and partners convened in Las Vegas last week for the annual Cognos Forum, making it Cognos' largest conference ever. While some time was given to synergies with IBM's product line, more air time was devoted to what's new in Cognos 8.3... A future interactive viewer capability was the flashiest — literally, as it leverages Adobe Flash to provide an appealing interface.

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Neil Raden

In Search of 'The Scotty Effect'
05.12.2008
Do you remember the movie "Star Trek IV," when the crew needs to go back to the 20th century to find two hump back whales? When that movie was released, twenty-five years ago, we already had SAS to build models and do statistical work and we could write reports in FOCUS or any number of other tools. Compared to the things we can do today, this may seem primitive, but how different is it really?

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How to Get to Better Planning and Budgeting
June 1, 2008
by Ventana Research
A new Ventana Research report finds that most companies are falling short on the basics of performance management. Here are five sets of diagnostic questions as well as best practices for broader, more responsive and more effective planning and budgeting.

Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
May 19, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

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Panorama Launches Online BI Service
PowerApps is a Web-based hosted online analytical processing (OLAP) platform that offers application programming interfaces to create scorecards, dashboards, and reports from within Google Apps.

Adaptive Focuses On Collaboration In Upgrade Of Financial Planning Service
Adaptive Planning 5.0 offers what the company calls "connected intelligence," which is the ability to tap into the pool of knowledge among employees within an organization or among outside financial professionals.

Microsoft Unveils Innovation Management Initiative
The software maker's initiative is built on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and is a key component of Office Enterprise Project Management software.

It's Official: SEC to Propose XBRL-Based Financial Reporting
Voluntary program destined to be mandatory for all public companies within two years, speeding competitive analysis and easing regulatory oversight.

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