Podcast: Continuous Intelligence Builds on BI
August 10, 2009
Continuous intelligence and business intelligence are complimentary approaches to helping organizations make more informed decisions. John Morrell, the Vice President of Product Marketing for Aleri, tells The IT-Finance Connection that the two disciplines are, in essence, bookends: CI keeps the company informed of what is happening at a given moment, while BI offers vital historical context. (Podcast time: 21:03)
Five Minutes of News: Sybase IQ 15.1
August 3, 2009
Last month, Sybase introduced version 15.1 of its IQ family. Lisa Hopkins, the Director of Product Marketing for Sybase IQ, tells the IT-Finance Connection that the new product operates in software and takes a column-based, in-line approach. She says that Sybase IQ 15.1 saves 75 percent of the time used by previous versions of the family. Those older versions, she says, speed applications by 10 to 100 times. (Podcast time: 12:08)
Podcast: Aligning IT Cost Optimization with Business Strategy
July 29, 2009
The communications gap between IT and business units persists. Frank Schiewer, alfabet’s CSO and a member of its board, tells The IT-Finance Connection that the challenge is creating a unified view of an organization that can be used both by strategic planners and those executing current programs. Business intelligence, he says, is a key tool in creating this agile and fluid common language. (Podcast time: 21:40)
It’s a Win-Win: Best in Class Companies Benefit More, Dedicate Fewer People to BI
July 21, 2009
David Hatch, the Vice President of Technical Research for the Aberdeen Group, says that best in class companies dedicate eight people to BI deployments, while other organizations use 11.1 people for this purpose. In a podcast, Hatch describes six steps that can propel average and laggard companies into this upper echelon. (Podcast time: 24:06)
Podcast: In Business Intelligence, Data Quality is Job One — Or Should Be
July 13, 2009
Daniel Teachey, the Senior Director of Market for DataFlux, tells The IT-Finance Connection that the definition of data integration is fluid — and not governed by any universal set of standards. He says that careful data cleansing and integration is ever more important as companies need real-time access to the growing mountains of data they collect. (Podcast time: 27:19)
Podcast: BI on the TEM Team
July 6, 2009
Telecom Expense Management focuses on six areas–from sourcing to usage control–that can lead to significant savings on an organizations contracts and phone bills. Veramark CEO Tony Mazzullo tells The IT-Finance Connection that the savings are impossible without BI’s ability to sort through all the telecom haystacks to find and extract vital facts and figures. (Podcast time: 20:20).
Views on the News: More Reaction to LucidEra’s Demise
June 24, 2009
Many things can bring a company down. Perhaps it’s a fatal flaw in the business plan, segment consolidation, a bad economic climate or changes in what customers want. It could be a combination of these and other reasons–or just plain bad luck. Here are five takes on last week’s shuttering of LucidEra.
Five Minutes of News: QlikView Version 9
June 17, 2009
Anthony Deighton, QlikTech’s Senior Vice President of Marketing, fills The IT-Finance Connection in on advances in QlikView Version 9. He says that new version of the company’s flagship offering scales to serve large organizations and is accessible via Amazon’s EC2 Cloud. QlikView 9, which is free for personal use, can be used on the iPhone. (Podcast time: 9:10)
It’s Time to Tackle the Silo Challenge
June 10, 2009
Microgen Chief Operating Officer David Sherriff tells The IT-Finance Connection that transparent access to data–which now may be spread randomly across geographic, product and other boundaries–is a competitive, regulatory and legal necessity. BI, he says, plays an important role in efforts to end the era of siloed data. (Podcast time: 22.24)
Five Minutes of News: myDIALS 3.0
June 8, 2009
The newest release of the software-as-a-service operational performance 
management platform provides deep insight into the health the host system. CEO Wayne Morris tells The IT-Finance Connection that myDIALS 3.0 augments existing capabilities with monitoring, what-if scenario analysis and a couple of alerting functions. (Podcast time: 8:35)
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
