Deloitte enters the fast growing Service-as-a-Software Business Intelligence (SaaS BI) market
Blog extracts by Jorge García, Business Intelligence (BI) research analyst at TEC. “In what seems to be a smart move by Deloitte, this Monday (9 May 2011) the consultancy company announced the acquisition of the promising software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) company Oco, which will form Deloitte Analytics Tactical Advantage (DATA). With this acquisition, Deloitte will address efforts to deliver both products and consulting... [Read More...]
Deloitte Announces Alliance Agreement with MicroStrategy to Deliver Business Intelligence and Analytic Solutions
NEW YORK, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Deloitte today announced it has signed an alliance agreement with MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq:MSTR – News) to develop and deliver solutions to help clients improve their information, business intelligence and analytic capabilities. Under the agreement, Deloitte will combine MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence (BI) technology with its broad array of consulting, advisory and... [Read More...]
2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
(Source: Extract from Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00210036, Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, John Hagerty, Bill Hostmann, 27 January 2011, V5RA6 3302011. For more information or to purchase this article, please visit www.gartner.com.) In 2010, business users had greater influence over BI buying, often choosing data discovery vendors as an alternative to traditional BI tools. But megavendors continued to hold the majority of BI market share, despite... [Read More...]
Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
(This is an extract from Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00207435, Ted Friedman, Mark A. Beyer, Eric Thoo, 19 November 2010. For more information or to purchase this article, please visit www.gartner.com.) Market conditions favor offerings with low costs and rapid time to value, but buyers that see data integration as strategic also seek rich capabilities to fuel their information infrastructure. More vendors in the data integration tools market understand... [Read More...]
Mobile BI Apps Target the iPad
Business intelligence vendors are getting better at delivering charts, graphs, and other data visualisations that are actually legible on smart phones. But there’s nothing like screen real estate when you need to drill down on reports, slice and dice data, and display rich dashboards. Thus, it should be no surprise that BI vendors are quickly adopting Apple’s hot new iPad tablet device. New mobile BI apps with native iPad support were... [Read More...]
SAS, Accenture form predictive analytics products
CARY, N.C. – SAS, the world’s largest privately held software companies and a global leader in mining of data for a wide variety of solutions, is teaming with Accenture to jointly develop a new suite of products based on predictive analytics. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is one of the world’s best-known and largest consulting and technical services firms. The new effort will be called the Accenture SAS Analytics Group, Financial details were not disclosed... [Read More...]
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites
(This is an extract from Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00172934, Neil Chandler, Nigel Rayner, John E. Van Decker, 25 January 2010, RA2 05092010. For more information or to purchase this article, please visit www.gartner.com.) The market for corporate performance management suites continues to grow. Users should evaluate vendors carefully, according to business needs and their broader business intelligence and performance management strategies. ... [Read More...]
Oracle extends its financial services analytical applications for enterprise performance management
Oracle today announced new and upgraded applications for its unified suite of financial services analytical applications for enterprise performance management (EPM). The new solutions, based on the merged capabilities of Oracle Financial Services Applications (OFSA), Oracle’s Hyperion, Oracle’s Reveleus and PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, are designed to help institutions: - Focus on planning future performance and lowering... [Read More...]
2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
(Source: Extracts from Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00173700, Joseph Feiman, Neil MacDonald, 29 January 2010, RA1 04012010. For more information or to purchase this article, please visit www.gartner.com.) In 2009, megavendors held almost two-thirds of business intelligence platform market share. But impatient business users increasingly turned to pure-play BI platforms, particularly those of small innovative vendors, to fill usability and time-to-value... [Read More...]
New Business Analytics Software From IBM Helps CFOs Drive Smarter Business Decisions
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced yesterday major enhancements to its performance management software designed to help CFOs and finance managers accelerate the adoption of business analytics and drive smarter decisions for better business outcomes. The new analytic finance solutions can reduce customer planning cycles in half and reduce reporting cycles from days to minutes. C-level executives today are looking to Finance to provide more accurate data more... [Read More...]