Business Intelligence Journal

Current version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). GPLv2 is a software license published by the Free Software Foundation. Pentaho will also provide a “FLOSS Exception”, which simplifies distribution of Pentaho BI Platform with certain other open source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org). The Pentaho BI Platform is the underlying infrastructure which supports Pentaho’s reporting, analysis, dashboard, data integration, and data mining capabilities. Read the rest

SAS announced the acquisition of privately held Teragram, the leader in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced linguistic technology. The acquisition will enhance SAS’ own robust text mining and analytical BI offerings, and extend them to enterprise and mobile search. More than a decade ago, SAS was among the first companies to recognize the importance of text mining, the analysis of text and other unstructured data such as Web pages, documents, email, images and other information not stored in a structured database. Today, SAS leads this important and growing space. Read the rest

Companies looking to compete more efficiently by enabling more employees to conduct ad hoc business analyses can now turn to one integrated solution that combines the world’s most popular open source business intelligence suite with breakthrough analytic database price/performance thanks to a partnership between Pentaho Corporation and Vertica Systems. Together, Vertica’s column-oriented relational database management system (RDBMS) and Pentaho’s complete BI suite give companies a complete, affordable set of applications to store, analyze and report on the information they need to better compete in their markets. Read the rest

ElegantJ BI Suite is one comprehensive product with a complete portfolio of advanced business intelligence capabilities on a state-of-the-art enterprise architecture, to help organizations consolidate and drain streamlined quality information to manage core strategies and improve performance management.

The release is an important milestone for fulfilling the company’s aspirations for providing practical and affordable Corporate Performance Management and Operational BI solutions. By merely expanding on the usability of data and existing IT infrastructure and technologies coupled with less training requirements that will result in better user take up and participation; ElegantJ BI ensures in giving companies the opportunity to make the most of their IT investments. Read the rest

Webalo’s Mobile Dashboard is now available to corporations that want the flexibility of providing executives and other mobile employees with real time business intelligence on handheld devices, but that for policy or compliance reasons wish to host the service internally, in their own data centers.

The Mobile Dashboard allows administrators, working from a Web browser, to configure mobile users of devices such as RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm Treo, and Java-enabled smartphones to receive pre-existing, internal reports from spreadsheets or business applications right on those devices. The reports are dynamically generated and preserve the look and feel of each handheld device, tailoring themselves to the native screen sizes. Read the rest

SeaTab Software, provider of on-demand business intelligence solutions, has changed its name to PivotLink Corp. to reflect the company’s commitment to its business intelligence solutions. PivotLink is the name of the company’s flagship product and is long familiar to all of the company’s direct and embedded (Powered by PivotLink) customers.

“We have chosen to name the company after our core technology and product, PivotLink,” said David L. Weld, president and chief executive officer of SeaTab Software. “The PivotLink name is known to the tens of thousands of people who use PivotLink every day to run their businesses. The brand will scale well as we continue to grow the company and to extend our platform and solution set.” Read the rest

MicroStrategy announced its license replacement program for customers and OEM partners of Cognos and Business Objects.

As a result of the recently announced acquisitions of Cognos by IBM and Business Objects by SAP, customers of these two BI vendors may have concerns about ongoing product support, product direction, and migration efforts. The MicroStrategy License Replacement program enables customers of Cognos and Business Objects to trade in their existing BI licenses for MicroStrategy licenses at little or no replacement cost. Read the rest

Manthan Systems announced the latest release of ARC 5.6 – its integrated business intelligence (BI) suite built exclusively for the retail industry. The new version comes with a complete set of analytics for the ‘Human Resources’ function in a retail enterprise. With this major extension of the existing data model, ARC customers will now be able to actively analyze the performance of their workforce and drive improvements in its human capital.

The HR analytics module in ARC 5.6 facilitates a host of analysis areas like recruitment analysis, head count trend analysis by demography, succession planning based on attrition, compensation analysis based on appraisal and payroll, absenteeism and training analysis to name a few. Retailers can now easily drive employee best practices and process benchmarks from top stores to the rest of the organization. Read the rest

Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) does not have to be slower than commercial solutions. On the contrary, the processing time of Palo Server 2.0 has picked up 10 times the speed compared to its previous version and in-memory OLAP database applications used for planning, reporting, consolidation and analysis run that much faster. In fact, BI applications based on Palo 2.0 may run faster than popular commercial BI solutions.

Palo Server facilitates high speed by keeping processed data in memory (In-Memory OLAP). Queries for base and also aggregated data cells take place in real-time and provide results quickly. With that, Palo Server provides a great contrast to popular multidimensional databases, which are based on relational technologies (ROLAP). Further, in-memory planning - both top/down as well as bottom/up - is supported by the functionality to write-back data into the cubes. Read the rest