Business Intelligence

How to improve business intelligence on a tight budget

Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

You don't need new analytic tools to gain insight into your business. Here's how to make the most of what you've got.

Is Antivirus Software Dead?

Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday

Always-on Internet connectivity is keeping malware concerns alive and well. We examine whether antivirus software is up to the task, or whether it's a security solution of the past.

Virtual Desktops Are For Real

Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday

We tested nine products that will transform how IT provides end user PCs.

Enterprise 2.0: Show me the money (a spreadsheet might help)

ChiefTech (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Looking at some of the early reflections on the Enterprise 2.0 conference , the point about return on investment (ROI) and benefits has come up time and time again. Proponents of Enterprise 2.0 have heralded the shift in the discussion to this issue with offered few answers, but meanwhile the nay sayers continue to point and laugh saying ‘show me the money!’ These critics have pointed...

Better RSS feed for IBM WebSphere Application Server forum

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

The websphere forum (see below) feeds are truncated http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=266&start=0 You need to add “&Full=true” to get all the content as shown below: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/rss/rssmessages.jspa?forumID=266&Full=true

Inside Oracle’s Analytic Applications for Financial Services

Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

If you’ve been to any of the Oracle BI Applications roadmap presentations, you may well have seen a slide that sets out “Oracle’s Integrated Analytic Solution”, which looks like this: (from Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Roadmap, Oracle Open World 2009) Now we all know about the ERP Analytics (Oracle BI Applications running against Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft and [...]...

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Credit Writedowns (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

David Michael Green: Can You Hear Us Now? We still want change. Hat tip Lavrenti. Marc Faber has short term concerns about commodities, says gold may drop to US$800 – Business Intelligence Middle East Is this rally over the top yet? Insolvencies hit record high Up 28% in Britain RBS bank reports losses of £2.2bn Britain’s bottomless pit. Much worse than Lloyds Fannie [...]

Seven LWW Nursing Editors Recognized as Leaders by American Academy of Nursing

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Nursing today inducted seven editors and editorial board members of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) nursing publications as Academy Fellows. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy....

Book Review : “The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit”, John Paredes

Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

John Paredes recently sent over a review copy of a book he’s just had published, entited “The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit: Making Your Business Intelligence Applications Smart with Oracle OLAP” (ISBN: 978-0-9817753-0-2, OLAP World Press). Interestingly, it’s a book written about Oracle OLAP (which is itself rare) but unlike the recent Oracle Press book on OLAP [...]

Journal of Public Health Management & Practice Calls for Growth in Public Health Workforce

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent special supplement to the Journal of Public Health Management calls attention to the country's pressing need for a larger and fully capable public health workforce. The supplement, written by the leading academic voices in public health and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), also sheds light on the challenges the U.S. faces in adequately...

• Journal of Public Health Management & Practice Calls for Growth in Public Health Workforce - Newswise

IBM Opens Business Analytics Center

Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Bangalore facility will employ experts skilled in applying database and statistical tools to customers' information challenges.

Blogger Video Sharing Data

Marketingsherpa Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Knowing which bloggers are most likely to embed or link to a viral video can help focus your pitching strategy. Take a look at a new video engagement report from social media business intelligence provider Sysomos to find out who is sharing videos via blogs. Sysomos analyzed over 100 million blog posts from July to September 2009 to measure bloggers’ video sharing. The report breaks down which...

TCS bags contract from Cardiff City Council

<title> - MarketColorz, Indian Stock Market... (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

UK’s Cardiff Council signed a 15 year deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), reportedly worth £150mn (Rs11.64bn). Under the deal, TCS will work alongside Cardiff’s own IT department. Cardiff Council said none of its staff will be transferred to TCS. The deal will support Cardiff’s transformational agenda in which it is attempting to improve shared services across public...

CDC Software Completes Acquisition of Activplant Corporation

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

SHANGHAI & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a global provider of enterprise software applications and services, today announced the acquisition of Activplant Corporation, a Canadian-based provider of manufacturing business intelligence solutions, that is expected to position CDC Factory as a market-leading solution in the packaged Manufacturing Operations Management...

TioLive Unveils SaaS ERP/CRM Solution

CRM Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Dover (USA), Paris (France) -- November, 4th 2009 - Nexedi, the company behind ERP5, the Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution in use for over seven years by large organisations such as a multi-national Central Bank spanning eight countries as well as Infoterra (EADS�Astrium group), Beteire Flow (Abertis group) and The Artois-Picardie Water Agency, is proud to present TioLive,...

DMC Software announce the imminent release of standardised integration enabling links providing added efficiency to CRM and accounts software

webcertain | 03/07/2009

The release of new standardised integration enabling links for Sage 50 Accounts and SalesLogix CRM and Sage 200 Accounts and Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been announced by DMC Software Solutions, the leading Sage and Microsoft Business Partner. These unique links enable the integration of Microsoft and Sage CRM and accounts software, in turn allowing businesses to operate to maximum efficiency by streamlining...