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Jaspersoft provides a broad range of BI capabilities, including reporting, in-memory or OLAP-based multi-dimensional analysis, dashboards, and data integration. It comprises the JasperAnalysis OLAP server, the JasperETL extract-transform-load (ETL) tool, the JasperServer interactive and managed reporting server, the JasperReports reporting library, and the iReport graphical report designer. All of these are underpinned by a BI platform that provides support for security and administration, and supports o…
Technology Audits - published 05/03/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Helena Schwenk
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Vertica is one of a growing band of vendors offering column-based analytic databases for data warehousing. Its Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with massively parallel processing (MPP) and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability. Column-based databases can be slow when it comes to deleting and updating data, and Vertica addresses this by …
Technology Audits - published 24/02/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise data-integration application that extends the capabilities of the vendor’s open-source product Talend Open Studio. Talend Integration Suite is sold on a subscription licence basis but shares a number of components with Open Studio such as its design studio and the code-generation engine that generates Java and Perl code and native SQL for the source/target platform. Included in the subscription for Talend Integration Suite are additional features such as administ…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
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Pentaho BI suite Enterprise Edition offers end-to-end business intelligence functionality including reporting, dashboards, data integration, data analysis, and data mining, encapsulated into loosely coupled modules linked together by the Pentaho BI platform. The Enterprise Edition BI server provides administration, user authentication, security, application diagnostics, and performance monitoring in addition to the core capabilities of the open-source platform. Pentaho’s Analysis module is based on Mondr…
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
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Omniscope, by Visokio, is an end-user tool for data visualisation, analysis, reporting, and information publishing. It enables business users to analyse enterprise data without the need for heavy involvement from SQL-savvy business analysts or the IT department. Omniscope picks up where tools like spreadsheets leave off, by offering 16 different data views, auto-refresh of data sets, and automated multi-tab report/presentation distribution. The product provides comprehensive analysis and visualisation ca…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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Crime Profiler is used for mapping, visualisation, creation, editing, and analysis of data with respect to location, and provides a location-centric view of operations. Built on top of MapInfo Professional, it makes use of the Engage 3D visualisation engine. It has the technical features that would be expected such as layer control, surfaces (hotspot maps) and grids, analytics and graphing, temporal analysis, and demographic profiling. Each of these function areas is underpinned by an extensive set of en…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Angela Eager
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As we approach the end of the decade, the data warehousing market stands out as one that has become much more competitive and dynamic than before thanks to developments such as the low-cost data warehouse appliance. The trend for analytical databases has further increased choice and performance options. These and other more recent innovations are set to keep the data warehousing market dynamic for the foreseeable future.
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Recent financial figures published by a number of leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise application vendors show strong double-digit growth despite the global economic slowdown. The Business Intelligence (BI) market has always been closely linked to the enterprise applications market because BI traditionally taps into the vast amounts of data that enterprise applications generate. The increasing volumes of enterprise data on the cloud opens up opportunities for BI to follow suit.
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/11/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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More and more public sector bodies are realising that they need to turn their data into intelligence in order to meet the challenges of budget squeezes and growing demand on their services.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend, and Vertica recently announced a partnership for end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) on the cloud provided on a subscription basis. The proposed solutions stack offers automated deployment of BI components that will be pre-configured to work with each other on the cloud: data integration, data warehousing, and BI. The market for BI on the cloud is lagging behind that of enterprise applications. If proven, the RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend, and Vertica proposition could …
OpinionWire Articles - published 29/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics are core requirements for metrics-driven management, and successful analytics are highly dependent on the ability of a company to integrate data from its various locations. Hence data integration tools complement business analytics software, enabling companies to focus on critical information in the knowledge that the data underneath is accurate and reliable.
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s Sagent Data Flow is an ETL (Extract, Load, and Transform) solution for the creation of enterprise data warehouses. Sagent Data Flow extracts structured and unstructured enterprise data from various sources, then applies a set of rules-based transformation policies, and loads the manipulated data into the target database. It offers connectors to third-party Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that use the information in the enterprise data warehouse to aid strategic busine…
Technology Audits - published 08/10/2009 - Balachandar Ganesh, Sarah Burnett
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SAS, the Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, which is arguably best known for its structured data solutions (data quality and integration, query, analysis and reporting, and advanced analytics), has been developing its tools for garnering intelligence from unstructured data. These include SAS Text Miner, and software from Teragram, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) and advanced linguistic software company that SAS acquired in 2008. With the market for text mining set to grow, SAS is well positioned to t…
OpinionWire Articles - published 02/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Data warehousing is the key data integration technology for Business Intelligence (BI). Over the years only one competing technology, data federation, has established itself as any kind of alternative to data warehousing but even that has failed to make noticeable inroads into the data warehousing stronghold.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Last week, IBM further demonstrated its commitment to analytics by releasing a new set of applications for customer, sales, financial, supply-chain, and workforce performance insight. Built on existing IBM tools, these products support IBM’s Smarter Planet and Information-Led Transformation initiatives and help the company with its strategy to broaden its market through the different applications of its technology.
OpinionWire Articles - published 25/09/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Last week Kalido announced its new product Kalido KONA Information Appliance, which will be available from early 2010. The product is the result of Kalido’s partnership with Netezza, the data warehouse appliance maker, and QlikTech, the Business Intelligence (BI) vendor. Kalido KONA is an interesting proposition as it aims to deliver end-to-end BI: data warehousing with built-in workflow for data governance with data matching for Master Data Management (MDM), and analytics and reporting – all in one pre-…
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/09/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Exie 2.0 is a broad-based Performance Management (PM) software package for developing performance management applications for a wide range of corporate functions, ranging from (but not limited to) sales performance management, planning, budgeting and forecasting, employee performance management, and logistics performance scorecards. An application builder capability enables bespoke applications to be built using standard components; Exie 2.0 uses the Eclipse Modelling Framework. An Integrated Development…
Technology Audits - published 07/09/2009 - Angela Eager, Jayasree Jayaprakash, Somak Roy, Tim Koomen
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Panopticon provides software for visual monitoring and analysis including an information-visualisation solution set aimed at enabling quick, intuitive interpretation of interesting patterns from datasets that involve hundreds and even thousands of records (often in an hierarchical order) – each involving multiple dimensions – and datasets that often involve time series, through the use of interactivity and the use of colours and size to represent dimensions. Panopticon offers treemaps, heatmaps, stack gr…
Technology Audits - published 18/08/2009 - Jayasree Jayaprakash, Mike Thompson, Somak Roy
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That cloud computing is disrupting traditional areas of IT can be taken as a given; the question for the Business Intelligence (BI) market is ‘what opportunities and benefits does it offer?’ The BI services that can be cloud based can essentially be grouped into three categories: raw infrastructure (server in the sky); data warehousing (and database) services; and various shades of BI system offerings from basic tools to advanced analytics services.
OpinionWire Articles - published 14/08/2009 - Michael Azoff
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There is an emerging trend for closer convergence of risk management software with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) that should help businesses get a better measure of the risks that are associated with their strategies and plans. The big appeal of CPM is in its ability to help organisations close the gap between strategy and execution; monitoring performance against goals and targets, and making corrective decisions/changes in order to maximise opportunities and minimise threats. Risk is closely a…
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/08/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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On Tuesday 28 July 2009, IBM announced its intention to acquire the analytics company SPSS for US$1.2 billion. This is the most significant acquisition in the Business Intelligence (BI) market since 2007 and gives IBM the lead in the race for analytics – an area of BI that is set for growth thanks to increasing volumes of data.
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/08/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Trillium Software System is an integrated data quality suite which helps companies profile, cleanse, standardise, enrich, and monitor their corporate data. It can be used for end-to-end data quality requirements to improve customer-oriented and other business processes or for downstream initiatives such as Business Intelligence (BI), Master Data Management (MDM), and application integration. It offers extensive capabilities for data discovery and quality improvement, including analysis of data patterns b…
Technology Audits - published 03/07/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Sarah Burnett, Somak Roy
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LucidEra, a rising star of Business Intelligence (BI) Software as a Service (SaaS), announced its closure last week having failed to secure a much needed round of funding. Opened for business back in 2007, the company already had around 30 customers named on its Web site and was viewed by many as a SaaS success story. LucidEra’s demise is sending ripples through the industry by re-igniting the debate about the viability and longevity of the SaaS model. Given the pressures that exist today on capital expe…
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/07/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Over the last few months, Butler Group’s Computergram has reported a steady stream of analytics software deployments. These deployments have been undertaken by companies operating in different sectors such as Telecom, Banking, and Logistics and Transport. The reasons cited for the deployments invariably include better decision making, timely actions, and the need to reduce costs. Developing competencies and capabilities that help companies address these requirements are critical for organisations that wi…
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/06/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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SPSS, Inc.’s Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) helps organisations drive the widespread use of data in decision making. SPSS PASW allows organisations to better understand and predict future customer behaviour by analysing, modelling, and scoring demographic data (attributes) and transactional data (actions) from operational systems, as well as attitudinal data (attitudes) gathered through customer feedback and surveys. Organisations that incorporate Predictive Analytics across their enterprises and i…
Technology Audits - published 11/06/2009 - Mike Thompson
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