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.
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: 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.
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?
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.
IT and Finance: Implementing an Efficient Data Security Model
August 18, 2008
True security extends through an organization’s databases. Tom Van Horn, the director of product marketing for Application Security Inc., provides a rationale for IT and finance to work together and five steps toward more effective and comprehensive database security.
The View from Here: Improving the Business Shouldn’t Put Anyone to Sleep
July 30, 2008
IT and other departments must communicate in order to successfully deploy VoIP, unified communications and other sexy applications. But improving communications can pay even greater dividends when the light shines on more subtle–some might say dull–areas.
GRC: Too Many Ways to Skin a Cat?
July 29, 2008
Governance, risk and compliance systems have developed in silos across most companies, says Gordon Burnes, OpenPages’ vice president of sales and marketing. The reason is simple: IT, which doesn’t understand the details of what each department does, is reluctant to impose a standardized approach. That fragmentation, Burnes says, must end.
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
