By Denis Pombriant on October 24, 2012
You might be tempted to consider social marketing just another idea in an endless stream of things dreamed up by the software industry (and pundits like me!) to generate more business. Well, you’d be right about some of that but I’d like to argue that the idea is more than hype and is, in fact, [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged affinity, CRM, emotion analysis, influence, marketing cloud, Natural language processing, NLP, predictive analytics, salesforce, segmentation, social marketing, Social Media, trending analytics |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 17, 2011
Convergence Of Smart Phone Affordability And Broad Network Access Drives Growth In Location Based Services I’ve been a big fan of location based services (LBS). In fact, many of you have followed my whereabouts on Yelp, Tripit, and other integrated Twitter services. As many of you know, location based services take your geographical position from [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ACMA, analytics, AT&T Navigation Services, Australian Communications and Media Authority, BI, BrightKite, business intelligence, Cellcom, Cloud, Constellation Research, CTIA, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, EchoEcho, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Facebook, Foursquare, Foursqure, Global Navigator and Maps, google, Google Maps, Google Navigation, Google. Latitude, Gowalla, LBS, linkedin, LOC-AID, Location Based Services, Loopt, Mark Zuckerberg, mobile, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, OnStar, Phantom Alert, Plazes, PleaseRobMe, predictive analytics, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Rummble, rwang0, SaaS, Sam Altman, Smartphones, socbiz, Social, social analytics, social business, Social CRM, Sprint Family Locator, Trapster, Tripit, Web analytics, WHERE, Yahoo, Yahoo! Maps, YELP, Yowza!!, Zhiing |
By Merv Adrian on July 14, 2010
Oracle’s newest BI release is massive, spans multiple product categories, and raises the bar for competitors in dramatic fashion. In my prior post I focused on its rollout and competitive posture. The market has waited a long time as the reconciliation of many moving parts was accomplished – most notably the convergence of the Hyperion [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BAO, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, Capgemini, cognos, csc, data integration, Essbase, Forrester, gartner, Goldengate, hyperion, HyperRoll, ibm, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, MOLAP, OBIEE, OLAP, oracle, predictive analytics, ROLAP, sap, SAS, Sybase, TimesTen, TM1, ULA |
By Merv Adrian on July 14, 2010
Tibco, fresh from a Q2 with license revenue up 23% over last year’s, continuing a two year run of beating consensus earnings estimates, has stepped up and out ahead to pursue the long-coveted mid-market customers who don’t use BI but find that spreadsheets don’t do enough. Tibco believes, like Microsoft, that many are social technology [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Access, business intelligence, Cloud, data visualization, Event Processing, gartner, guided analytics, Informatica, microsoft, middleware, predictive analytics, S, Spreadsheet, statistical analysis, Tibco, visualization, XML |
By Merv Adrian on July 13, 2010
Oracle is not first in BI, and wants to change that – that was the clear message of a well executed, multi-site “real plus virtual” event with top executives showing off the result of a multi-year effort to rationalize and integrate a set of leading but overlapping components into a seamless suite. Oracle Business Intelligence [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, BAO, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, data integration, Data Warehousing, Essbase, Forrester, gartner, Goldengate, HyperRoll, ibm, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, MOLAP, OBIEE, OLAP, oracle, predictive analytics, Research Industry, ROLAP, sap, SAS, Software infrastructure, software licensing, Sybase, TimesTen, TM1, ULA, Vendor image and communications |
By Merv Adrian on June 10, 2010
In April, I was critical of the BI messaging I heard from Microsoft – as told, it was long on benefit adjectives and short on architectural clarity. But things have changed since then, and the Combined Tech Ed/Business Intelligence Conference made that very clear. Do I see more clarity because I now know more of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, BI, BIDS, BizTalk, business intelligence, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Data mining, DMX, drm, excel, Forefront, ibm, Industry Trends, IT, master data management, master data services, MDS, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, Office, OLAP, oracle, Performance Point, PMML, predictive analytics, Reporting Services, SAP BW, SAS, sharepoint, silverlight, spss, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Teradata, TSQL, Windows Server |