Podcast: Risk Management, Business Intelligence Help Execs Walk the Tightrope
March 31, 2009
Risk management platforms provide accurate and actionable views into the exposure 
to various threats — and missed opportunities — that an organization is experiencing. John Kelly, OpenPages’ Director Product Marketing, tells The IT-Finance Connection that BI is a necessary element of a risk management platform. He says that demand for these tools was growing even before the financial meltdown began — and has increased significantly recently.
The View From Here: New Category or Same Old Marketing?
March 30, 2009
At the SAS Global Forum last week, vice president Jim Davis said that the emphasis is shifting from “business intelligence” to “business analytics.” He described that transition–which focuses on real time reaction and increased colloration–and it certainly is a good prescription for the BI industry. But is the category SAS’s alone?
Five Minutes of News: MicroStrategy 9 Widely Released
March 26, 2009
Version 9 of the MicroStrategy platform, initially announced in January, now is generally available, Director of Product Marketing Brian Brinkmann tells The IT-Finance Connection in a podcast. The new release, he says, offers high performance and scalability, is accessible to business users with little or no IT input and supports departmental-level applications.
Read more »The View From Here: Has Consolidation Hurt the BI Industry?
March 25, 2009
Two podcasts–one with Tableau’s Christian Chabot and the other with analyst Nigel Pendse–revealed remarkably similar points of view. Both men think that the big vendors have acquired so many companies and are going in so many directions at once that customer service and responsiveness are no longer at the top of their lists. The big questions: Are Pendse and Chabot right? If so, will the big vendors listen?
Podcast: Big BI Vendors Facing Big Challenges
March 23, 2009
Vendors in the business intelligence industry face significant challenges, says Nigel Pendse, the 
author of The BI Survey. Pendse, who just released the eighth version of the survey, tells The IT-Finance Connection in a podcast that the big companies–which often are pieced together composites of several acquisitions–are not adequately supporting customers and offer products that are inferior to niche vendors.
A Message From The IT-Finance Connection
March 23, 2009
A very brief survey will help us immensely—and will result in one respondent getting a $50 gift certificate to either Starbucks or Barnes & Noble. It’s all explained in a short podcast.
Read more »Five Minutes of News: LogiXML, Virginia and the Stimulus
March 18, 2009
Yes, Virginia, there is a business intelligence industry. In this podcast, David Abramson, LogiXML’s Director of Product Management, tells The IT-Finance Connection how its products are helping the commonwealth collect and process ideas from citizens on how its portion of the federal stimulus money should be spent.
The View From Here: The Machines Speak Up
March 16, 2009
Machine-to-machine communications–M2M–is a category of network connections in which 
humans largely are uninvolved. The number of M2M messages is proliferating, and they are longer and more complex. Business intelligence is destined to play a big role as M2M–pushed by organizations’ desire to cut costs and act in a more environmentally sensitive manner–becomes a major way in which business gets done.
Five Minutes of News: MindTree Introduces CPM, BICC Programs
March 11, 2009
MindTree says that its Corporate Performance Management program provides an integrated 
view of the business through reports, analytics, dashboards and scoreboards and that the BI Competency Center increases efficiency and agility through a shared services model. Vinay Rao, the head of MindTree’s U.S. Business Intelligence practice, explains it all.
Podcast: Using Business Intelligence to Better Manage Telecom
March 9, 2009
Mobility has 
exploded in the past decade. This is, of course, a good thing since mobility drives employee effectiveness. The problem–there always is a problem–is that mobile device management hasn’t kept pace. Tangoe President and CEO Al Subbloie tells The IT-Finance Connection that business intelligence can play a big role in better managing an organization’s mobile infrastructure.
Around the Net: October 5 to 9
Big IPOs Due this Week from Verisk and Santander: Read More at Market Watch…
Banks Building Business Intelligence: Read More at eFinancial Careers…
Heavy Lifting: Read More at Information Management…
Finding Your Niche in On-Demand BI: Read More at IT World Canada…
British Telecom Picks Jaspersoft for Analytics: Read More at CNET…
E-Medical Data valuable to Healthcare Industry: Read More at InformationWeek…
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Read More at PC Quest…
--Carl Weinschenk
