LucidEra’s Rudin: Analytics Brings Science to the Art of the Sale

May 20, 2009

Closely examining trends, patterns and historical performance is a valuable adjunct to the “gut” level feelings that many sales staffs use to assess their progress. LucidEra co-founder and CMO Ken Rudin tells The IT-Finance Connection that it’s more a matter of science helping art than one replacing the other. The keys for sales analytics, Rudin says, are the three “Ps:” Pipeline, people and process.

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Five Minutes of News: RoamBI from MeLLmo

May 19, 2009

As the amount of data that broadband networks deliver explodes and smartphones become more powerful, the user interface becomes the weak link. Today, MeLLmo introduced RoamBI, an application family that aims to make it possible for folks on the road to access the same sophisticated BI tools they use in the office.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for May 19

May 19, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: IBM, SRC, Thunderhead, Winn-Dixie, Teradata, ROI Analyticsm, CAST, David Consulting Group, CSC, QlikView, BeyeNETWORK, Dell, SAP Business Objects, Catylist, The Swiss Colony, Pentaho, Price Chopper, ParAccel, EMC, the World Organization of Webmasters and PetrisWINDS.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for May 14

May 14, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: Verint, Deltek, friedEgg, Analytix on Demand, Information Builders, SPSS, RJMetrics, Across Systems, SAP, Sybase, MicroStrategy, viasys, Milestone Systems, Teradata, Greenplum, Tagged.com, Visual i/o, Symtrax, JD Edwards, Profound.com and Digital Vector.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for May 12

May 12, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: Teradata, SAP, Sybase, Infohrm, Oracle, Vertica, EMC, Xelleration, Microsoft, Composite Software, Motio, IBM Cognos, Oracle, JD Edwards, AsiaInfo Holdings, AmberPoint, InetSoft, SafeAuto, Audatex North America, Idhasoft, ITCourseware, Aster Group, Decision First, SAP BusinessObjects, Attaain, Hoover’s and SAS.

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Five Minutes of News: Palo BI Suite 3.0 from Jedox

May 11, 2009

Palo BI Suite 3 from Jedox adds Web-based functionality to enable online spread sheets and an ETL data acquisition tool, according to Jedox Founder and CEO Kristian Raue. Raue tells The IT-Finance Connection that the platform is a way for organizations to advance beyond Excel — without leaving it behind.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for May 7

May 8, 2009

Organizations mentioned in this edition: Rogue Wave Software, Visual Numerics, ClickFox, Oracle, Indiana School District, Pearson, MicroStrategy, SAS, Workday, Kalido, Syncfusion, AmberLeaf, Brist, Eneco, IBM Cognos, Conduit, Noetix, Attensity, Empolis GmbH, Living-e AG, Minnesota Department of Education and Information Builders.

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Podcast: Cloud Computing and SaaS are Changing BI in a Number of Ways

May 5, 2009

The movement of BI to the cloud has big ramifications for four groups, says Good Data Founder and CEO Roman Stanek. In addition to the tremendous pressure that legacy vendors are under to join the migration, Stanek tells The IT-Finance Connection that IT departments will lose some control, end users will gain flexibility and finance departments will need to think about projects in a new way.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newsletter for May 5

May 5, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: Greenplum, EMC, StrategicOne, Tableau, Microsoft, Umniah, Jedox, Yahoo!, Magnum, HMB, Computer Technology Solutions, IBM, Johnston McLamb, Ingram Micro, Quantivo, Omniture, Haskell, iWay Software, Information Builders, MobileFusion, SAS and Exeros

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