Podcast: How BI and BPM Work Together
June 1, 2009
Business process management and business intelligence are deeply linked but discreet disciplines. Laura Mooney, the Vice President of Corporate Communications for Metastorm, tells The IT-Finance Connection that BPM, which is both a discipline and a technology, aims to analyze and change an organization’s core procedures. BI, she says, can be a key tool in providing the real time information to effectively do that. (Podcast time: 21:44)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five Minutes of News: Star Analytics’ Finance Command Center
April 8, 2009
Tom Tortolani, the Vice President of Products for Star Analytics, tells the IT-Finance Connection that its new platform provides Finance and IT with a way to centralize and automate data processes and work flows across multivendor financial and BI platforms.
Views on the News: BICCs, BI Pervasiveness, Gartner — and Alexander the Great
April 6, 2009
The IT-Finance Connection periodically looks around the Internet for stories and commentaries that will interest BI professionals. This time, we’ve found interesting articles at The BeyeNETWORK, KMWorld, Express Computer and Seeking Alpha. The only threat between the commentaries is that the BI industry is vibrant, continually changing — and that competitive advantages are available for the organizations with the initiative to look for them.
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
