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www.topix.net | 2/2/12 1:18 AMBusiness Intelligence News
| Josh James' Domo Tech. Inc. raises $20 million from IVP
Domo Technologies Inc., the newest venture from Omniture Inc. co-founder Josh James, raised $20 million from Institutional Venture Partners to help it expand its business intelligence company. www.topix.net | 2/1/12 12:53 PM Omniture Co-Founder’s Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Lands $20M From IVP
 Domo , the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James , has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to $63 million. Previous investors include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, and Hummer Winblad.
As you may remember, Omniture is a web analytics SaaS company that went public and was subsequently bought by Adobe in 2009 for $1.8 billion. Last year, James debuted his next project, Domo, with $33 million in funding from Benchmark, and aimed to tackle the business intelligence space. Domo purchased a company called Corda , and started accepting customers on a selective basis to test out the platform.
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2/1/12 6:58 AM
2012 Conference Planning: Key Events for Your Radar (31-Jan)
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 1/31/12 5:05 PM Pentaho Updates Kettle to Handle Big Data, Moves Platform to Apache
Oracle Closes RightNow Purchase; Expands Service Cloud
Oracle has completed its $1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow Technologies. The deal brings a respected customer service offering into Oracle's Public Cloud.
The company is betting that RightNow's tech will help them meet the needs of enterprises that want to deliver a unified, personalized customer experience from start to finish, from the marketing and sales phase all the way through customer service and support. The value proposition of RightNow, as it becomes Oracle's new CRM component, is to maximize loyalty, advocacy and repeat business. Expanding the Public Cloud Offerings of the Oracle Public Cloud include cloud applications for managing sales, marketing, human capital, social networking, database, Java, data and security. With RightNow, Oracle is pacing to compete more fiercely against CRM vendors with a Customer Service Cloud, namely Salesforce.com. "Like IBM and some of its other primary competitors, Oracle is very much an enterprise-focused vendor," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "If it's had any weak spots, it's been mostly in the mid-market. The RightNow product and service set fits very well with that group. "Not only does the RightNow acquisition notably broaden Oracle's solution set and the number of customers or the types of customers it can go after, but it also gives it a very viable competitive alternative to more successful vendors in that space, including Salesforce.com." Targeting SMBs From a merger standpoint, the Oracle Customer Service Cloud aims to blend Oracle's marketing, sales, e-commerce, search and business intelligence software with RightNow's service capabilities to deliver customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints: on the Web, in a store, over the phone or via mobile devices. Beyond the toe-to-toe competition with Salesforce.com, King sees Oracle's move to integrate RightNow Technologies into its Public Cloud -- a move toward the middle market -- as an important one. King noted that much of the action in... www.cio-today.com | 1/30/12 8:14 PM This Week: Google's New Privacy Policy - CXM Win or Fiasco?
Google is simplifying its privacy policies — going from 70 documents to 10 — and integrating its customer data across services. Along the way, the company will officially merge intelligence about you from many of its services. Is this beautiful simplicity and a big customer experience win? Not everyone is buying the spin. Yes, the customer experience becomes more unified, but at what cost to your privacy? On the other hand given what competitor Facebook knows about you and the targeting that this data makes possible, does Google have a choice? Here’s our round-up on the announcement. In other news, February is nearly here. This coming month our editorial focus will be the nuts and bolts of Social Business. Stay tuned. Most Popular
IBM, Oracle Make Competing Smart Grid Announcements
Moving into IBM's Smarter Energy territory, Oracle on Tuesday rolled a new product onto its smart grid. Dubbed Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics, the new analytic capabilities targets utilities that need to improve meter data system performance in a world where all things green are demanding attention.
Utilities Meter Data Analytics aims to help utilities turn the influx of huge data volumes into intelligent business processes so they can operate more efficiently and improve customer satisfaction. The solution has eight pre-built dashboards that analyze consumption trends, gauge the performance of head-end systems and service providers, track unreported usage, alert staff to revenue protection events, and track meter installation efforts. "Far too many so-called business intelligence products today provide little more than an additional analytic engine or reporting framework requiring months of consulting time to implement and extensive staff time and training to use and maintain," said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities. Big Blue Belts Back Smith said Oracle's new solution is a major step forward. As an example, Oracle said utilities can use the solution to improve business processes like targeting customer segments for specific energy efficiency and demand management programs or decreasing losses from unbilled energy. Moreover, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics permits staff to drill down into details behind the graphics. The solution also helps staff examine specific instances and events contributing to trends by drilling back into the underlying applications, such as Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing. IBM combated Oracle's announcement with an announcement of its own: Big Blue and the Vermont Electric Power Company, or VELCO, are working to build an intelligent fiber optic and Carrier Ethernet communications and control network across Vermont. Spanning more than 1,000 miles, the advanced fiber communications network will connect transmission substations to Vermont's... www.cio-today.com | 1/24/12 9:10 PM 2012 Conference Planning: Key Events for Your Radar (24-Jan)
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 1/24/12 5:05 PM This Week: Do You Have the Right Customer Experience Attitude?
In our Customer Experience Management (CXM) Tweet Jam this past week participants pointed to analytics as the biggest CXM opportunity for 2012. In other words, we all have much work to do — intelligence is still siloed. But it isn’t just about analytics. The customer oriented culture is still young. Check your attitude in 2012, we all have much to learn from our clients. Other hotspots include improving multi-channel marketing, and refining social media engagement. Read a summary of the CXM Tweet Jam or review the full archive to learn more. Most Popular
SharePoint Upgrade Supports iPad Mobile Business Intelligence ...Sort of
The latest SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update from Microsoft came with a surprise for iPad users: Select mobile business Intelligence reports and scorecards can now be viewed via the Safari Browser running Apple iOS 5. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 1/19/12 7:20 PM CIO Spending Survey Spotlights Business Intelligence, Mobile Tech
IT will be charged with doing more with less in 2012. That's because budgets are largely flat, increasing a mere half percent overall -- and actually declining in North America and Europe. So says a global survey of CIOs by Gartner. The bright spot, though, is Business Intelligence, or BI.
Mark McDonald, group vice president for Gartner Executive Programs and a Gartner Fellow, says that just because technology's role in the enterprise is increasing does not mean that the role of the IT organization is increasing. "CIOs concentrating on IT as a force of operational automation, integration and control are losing ground to executives who see technology as a business amplifier and source of innovation," McDonald said. "Effective leaders use technology, which includes IT, to strengthen the customer experience and eliminate costly internal distortions. They are using technology to 'amplify' the enterprise." Business Intelligence Wins Budget As McDonald sees it, business strategies call for a combination of growth and operational efficiency -- and effective leaders see customers as the key factor in both of these strategic components, with the customer experience their focal point in reconciling potentially conflicting goals. "Present economic conditions may tempt CIOs to force IT back into cost-cutting mode, but senior executives expect technology -- and this includes IT -- to address the tough challenges by amplifying enterprise strategies and operations," McDonald said. One areas CIOs may not cut costs is in the areas of analytics/business intelligence, mobility, cloud and social technologies. In fact, BI and analytics was the top-ranked technology for 2012, Gartner reports, as CIOs are combining analytics with other technologies to create new capabilities. For example, analytics plus supply chain for process management and improvement, analytics plus mobility for field sales and operations, and analytics plus social networking for customer engagement and acquisition. "BI has importance to line management and... www.cio-today.com | 1/19/12 12:11 AM Gartner: CIO 2012 IT Budgets Down Slightly In North America
CIOs chose analytics and business intelligence as their top technology priority for 2012, according to the survey. That was followed by mobile technologies, cloud computing, collaboration technologies and virtualization. Survey: Business Intelligence Back on Top of CIOs Minds
Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing, according to a survey of 2,335 CIOs conducted by Gartner. www.topix.net | 1/18/12 10:17 PM 25+ Cloud, Social, E2.0 and CXM Events for Your 2012 Calendar
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 1/18/12 5:04 PM Microsoft Project Server 2010 Integration with SAP
Use Project Server to provide timely and cost-effective resource forecast business intelligence through integration with SAP and other ERP systems. www.topix.net | 1/17/12 10:24 PM Forrester: 10 Ways Business Intelligence is Evolving
All of the changes taking place in the business intelligence space make it difficult to pinpoint exactly where it is going. Forrester recently looked into the question and found that the relationship between users of business intelligence applications and the IT departments that are providing business intelligence tools is being turned upside down. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 1/16/12 9:22 PM Red Hat, Jaspersoft Bring Business Intelligence To Cloud Platforms
The integration of Jaspersoft with Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service system will speed the development of cloud applications with business intelligence capabilities. Can BI Help Barnes & Noble Beat Amazon in the E-Reader Race?
Book retailer Barnes & Nobles adds a massive database and improved business intelligence in hopes a smarter sales team will drive Nook past the Kindle
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1/13/12 4:03 PM
Aberdeen Publishes BI, Service Management, GSM, Wireless & Mobility, IT Infrastructure Research
The " Predictive Analytics for Sales and Marketing: Seeing Around Corners ," research brief co-authored by Trip Kucera and David White , Senior Research Analysts for the Aberdeen Group Marketing Effectiveness & Strategy and Business Intelligence research practices respectively, confirms that companies investing in predictive analytics outperform ... (more) www.topix.net | 1/12/12 11:39 PM Jaspersoft Unveils First Business Intelligence for Platform-as-a-Service
Debian Linux named most popular distro for Web servers
IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances combined with IBM InfoSphere Information Server provides a platform for business intelligence, performance management, and analytics capable of transforming business operations and results. www.topix.net | 1/11/12 9:40 PM New Anti-Piracy Solutions and Business Intelligence Services Launched ...
CEG's new line of fully-customizable services gives way to multiple anti-piracy solutions including a fully-customizable Monetization service solution that is available at no cost to content owners. www.topix.net | 1/11/12 9:40 PM 25+ CXM, EIM, E2.0 Events for Your 2012 Calendar
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 1/10/12 5:05 PM Changing Name and Improving Focus
You might have noticed that this blog changed name and URL. Instead of having one single blog for everything, I decided to split my blogging activities in two separate blogs.
If you're interested in MySQL, Oracle, Databases, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Cloud, etc. this is the place to be. Blog's new name is Data & Co.
A big "Thank you!" to David Stokes who moved all the planet.mysql.com references to the old blog to this new one.
On the other hand, if you'd like to read about communication, marketing, advertising, PR, soft skills, etc. feel free look at Publicime. Please see the introduction of my new blog here. I've moved non-technical articles to this one to make sure my posts on Data & Co are exclusively technology-centric.
This will result in better focus for both blogs and I won't annoy you with topics you're not interested in. The old url is redirecting to Data & Co. by default.
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Just Released: "Brain Force Holding AG (BFC) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review"
It is provides business solutions such as Enterprise Resource Planning , Customer Relationship Management , and Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management . www.topix.net | 1/8/12 2:50 PM New Market Report Now Available: EDB Gruppen A/S - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review
The company offers a wide range of solutions for eBusiness, customer relationship management, supply chain management, business intelligence, portals, electronic document management and infrastructure solutions and products. www.topix.net | 1/6/12 8:42 PM IBM's Workload Simulator Begins IT Discussion
If you're trying to show how your data center solution can work more efficiently, why not use a simulator? IBM is doing just that, with an online Smarter Computing Workload Simulator that shows how the company can save money for its IT customers.
The user answers some questions in the Simulator app about the current IT setup, and, as IBM noted in a statement, the results show "potential cost savings from consolidating your current distributed infrastructure to a smarter computing solution based on IBM Power Systems or IBM zEnterprise." Three Strategies The user is first asked to select either IBM Power Systems or IBM System z, in order to perform a comparison to the user's existing IT infrastructure. The app then asks for the type of industry, the type of workload, and the number and types of systems to compare, including Intel Itanium, Intel x86, or Sun SPARC. As each system is designated, they are visualized in a graphical representation in a virtual data center. When completed, a comparative data center is populated with IBM technology and a comparison of costs. The user can drill down into charts and analyses for greater detail about operating and strategic costs, and about potential savings, available through the use of IBM's solutions. A more comprehensive comparison is then offered through an IBM System Consolidation and Evaluation Tool. The Simulator is part of IBM's Smarter Computing initiative for information technology, launched earlier this year and centered on three strategies. The three key strategies are Big Data, which leverages analytics, optimized systems "tuned to the task," and management through cloud-based technologies. Smarter Computing aims for the intersection of all three. Not Just About 'Boxes' Leveraging data in this approach includes obtaining business intelligence through the analysis of data that includes sources beyond the traditional ones. Matching systems to workload characteristics, the company said, can... www.cio-today.com | 1/5/12 7:04 PM SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services - Partition Processing Data Flow Destination
The primary purpose of Integration Services technology is to deliver ETL functionality that supports core features of SQL Server database management systems. However, many times its role involves interaction with components that provide Business Intelligence-related features. This article discusses one such scenario, which leverages built-in SSIS Partition Processing Data Flow Destination in order to facilitate Analysis Services processing. www.databasejournal.com | 1/4/12 10:01 AM Information Management 2011: Analytics, Business Intelligence, BPM
Information management in the enterprise has clearly been a matter of considerable concern over the past year. Even leaving aside SharePoint 2010 (which we will look at in another post), interest in it has been intense. Here is a list of subjects that appear to have hit the spot. There are dozens more that could be included, but these are the ones that caught our attention. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 12/29/11 6:59 PM Great solution
Business Card Company: itelligence Posted on Jan. 07, 2010 09:01 AM in Business Intelligence , SAP Crystal Reports , Knowledge Management , SAP Business One In last few months I have found several questions on the SAP Business One forums - SQL Queries about Bill of Materails. www.topix.net | 12/22/11 5:45 PM Web Content Management in 2012: Many Evolutions, but No Revolutions
How will collaboration, information and experience management change in 2012? Digital business in 2012 will see an evolution, rather than a revolution, meaning the biggest trends of the coming year have already entered the market and are just now gaining steam. 2012 will be a year in which adaptive device and content delivery, as well as business intelligence around big data, will be fine-tuned to finally provide users with the experience that they have been promised over the past decade. Also expect to see continued acquisitions of independent Web CMS companies by technology giants. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 12/21/11 7:30 PM Event Planning: Top 20+ CXM, EIM, E2.0 Events for Your Calendar
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 12/20/11 5:07 PM Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence
Open source software and Business Intelligence are two related market segments where Forrester sees continually increasing interest and adoption levels. BI specifically continues to be one of the top priorities on everyone’s mind.
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open source versions that carry license and/or support cost, 2) some tools offer full BI suites, while others offer just reporting and analytics. Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT led the pack due to its richness of reporting functionality. opensource.sys-con.com |
12/16/11 7:22 PM
Selecting a Business Intelligence Solution
A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price.
Stay up-to-date on the ever-changing BI market by reviewing the findings of the 2011 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study. Howard Dresner, report author and worldwide authority on BI, shares the latest market trends and provides true insight into what is happening in the BI arena today. In addition, read why Actuate/BIRT is in the top position and how it exceeded its peer group and the overall sample average for all Technical Support and Product metrics by a wide margin.
Read to find out:
The best approach to selecting a BI solution that is easy to buy, fast to deploy and simple to use
How to take a more active role in planning, managing and evolving your BI portfolio
Why Actuate is named the Leader in the Open Source Business Intelligence Vendor category java.sys-con.com |
12/16/11 5:20 PM
Event Planning: 25+ Top Conferences, Forums for CXM, EIM, E2.0 People
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 12/15/11 5:05 PM Carrier IQ and the US' Escalating Privacy Risk Level
Not many news stories are as astonishing as the recent revelation by a 25-year-old researcher about the Carrier IQ software that is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. Carrier IQ software collects massive data from these devices, then "correlates and aggregates the data for near real-time system monitoring and business intelligence."
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12/15/11 12:52 AM
Angola: New Oil and Banking Legislation - Togobo, Songhai Advisory
Songhai Advisory LLP is a bespoke business intelligence consultancy providing critical insight on market opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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12/13/11 6:35 PM
Location Intelligence Software Provider Opens Office in United States
By combining geographical dimensions with existing data from business intelligence applications, Galigeo's location intelligence software has helped companies gain critical insights from existing company data. www.topix.net | 12/8/11 5:46 AM Jaspersoft Brings Big Data Analytics to Non-Technical Users
Event Planning: 35+ Top Fall, Winter Conferences, Forums for CXM, EIM, E2.0 People
Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can see all events here.) www.cmswire.com | 12/6/11 5:12 PM SAP Serious about EPM
Business Card Company: SAP Posted on Jun. 27, 2011 04:29 AM in Analytics , Business Intelligence , Enterprise Performance Management , ERP , Financial Excellence While EPM10 is the most significant release that SAP has made from the day SAP become serious about EPM in 2007 , I often get asked what are those key use cases that has been addressed in ... (more) www.topix.net | 12/6/11 11:45 AM Top Stories: November 28-December 2, 2011
This week on O'Reilly: Author Clay Johnson explained why information consumption, not overload, is what needs to be managed. Also, Alistair Croll looked at the relationship between business intelligence and big data, and Todd Sattersten made a case for the paperless book.
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12/2/11 8:00 PM
'Five firms collapse every day'
Five firms collapsed in the Republic of Ireland every day this year, according to figures from business intelligence analyst, Vision-net.
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12/1/11 9:05 AM
Big data goes to work
Alistair Croll looks at how data is shaping consumer expectations and how those expectations, in turn, are shaping businesses. He also examines where business intelligence stops and big data starts.
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11/30/11 5:00 PM
Timbuk2 Wins Industry Achievement Award for Retail Analytics Powered by PivotLink
PivotLink , the leading provider of business intelligence solutions delivered via Software as a Service , salutes SF-based customer Timbuk2 for winning the "Industry Achievement Award for Business Analytics Excellence" from Aberdeen Group , a leading information technology analyst firm. www.topix.net | 11/28/11 9:47 PM How RFID Can Sharpen Your Business Intelligence
The former worldwide program director of RFID for Hewlett-Packard and Asia Pacific regional director for EPCglobal explains how the technology can be used to improve the quality of your business decisions. www.topix.net | 11/28/11 6:27 PM Mobile Business Intelligence to Play Bigger Role in Future
Mobile business intelligence (BI) will remain a key trend within the BI industry going into 2012 and as a result, businesses wanting to further leverage the benefits of BI within their organisation should keep an eye on this important technology, but should also take the time to understand it.
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