The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for April 30, 2009

April 30, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: IBM, SAS, Sybase, SearchDataManagement, Buddy Media, Aster Data Systems, Good Data, O’Reilly, Research and Markets, PeopleCube, Diageo, Informance, Blink Logic, Accellos, Wolters Kluwer Health, QlikTech, Netezza, The Rainmaker Group, Salesforce.com, Ingres Corp., GrapeCity-Data, Carrefour, Teradata Corp. and Jaspersoft.

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Five Minutes of News: Bango Analytics v4

April 29, 2009

There are many challenges to collecting deep, accurate and timely analytics from mobile users. Andy Bovingdon, the Vice President of Product Marketing for Bango, explores these issues for The IT-Finance Connection and describes the recently released version 4 of the company’s analytics platform.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for April 28, 2009

April 28, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: SAP, Teradata, RPI, Sybase, Host Analytics, Morningstar, C.P.M.S., IBM, Omniture, Mariner, Microsoft, Lawson Software, Banque, BeyeNETWORK, Alert Management, Orlando Health, Woolworths, HP, BVI, PerkinElmer and Accelrys.

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As it Grows, CPM–a Process, Not a Technology–Increasingly Relies on BI Tools

April 27, 2009

Sarah Burnett, a Senior Research Analyst with the Butler Group, sees an increasing connection between BI and the management of corporate performance and risk. Burnett – who just wrote a expansive report examining BI/CPM issues – tells The IT-Finance Connection that the drivers of CPM will continue to increase and that savvy companies perceive it as a businesses initiative, not as a technology.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for April 23

April 23, 2009

Companies mentioned in this issue: Xtivia, Sybase, Aster Data Systems, Phase Forward, Waban Software, The Cleveland Museum of Art, SPSS, Innography, iDashboards, Cernium, Bango, Google, Taneja, Jaspersoft, Profound.com, Mind Commerce, Lawson Software, Sybase and InformationWeek.

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Five Minutes of News: QlikTech’s QlikView for iPhone

April 22, 2009

The iPhone is thought of primarily as a consumer device but, according to QlickTech Senior Vice President for Products Anthony Deighton, the Apple device provides flexibility and functions previously unavailable to traveling employees. The QlikView for iPhone, Deighton tells The IT-Finance Connection in a podcast, is available at the App Store now.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for April 21

April 21, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: Synaptris, QlikTech, Attensity, Tango Management, FoxMetrics, Infohrm, ISI Telemanagement, Accelrys, Frost & Sullivan, Jaspersoft, Infobright, Standard & Poor’s, The Butler Group, Empolis GmbH, Living-e AG, Omniture, SAS and Microsoft.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for April 17

April 17, 2009

Companies and products mentioned: APS Healthcare, Thomson Reuters, Publix, Teradata, BeyeNETWORK, IBM, QlikView, iPhone, Fraport, Google, interRel, Star Analytics, Autonomy, Exalead, SearchDataManagement.com, 1010data, Soft Surroundings, QueBIT, TEC, friedEgg, Pilgrim and Compete.

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Podcast: BI’s Role in Bridging the IT/Business Gap

April 16, 2009

The discontinuity between IT and the business side of an organization is a constant challenge – and a problem that costs companies money and time. Cliff Berg, the author of Value-Driven IT, discusses the issue from both an organizational and personal, employee-level perspective. Berg concludes that BI can be a useful tool in closing this communications gap.

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The View From Here: Don’t Overlook the Complexities of Business Intelligence

April 13, 2009

The key to good BI is a clear understanding of the company’s business model, argues Karthikeyan Sankaran. Developing actionable insight into the business model is a confusing task. The trick is to think of the organization as a story, with each stakeholder seeking to fulfill their own goals.