Business Intelligence Journal

Harry & David’s famous juicy pears will more easily find their way into the mouths of eager customers because of SAS Enterprise BI Server. SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is helping the Oregon-based gourmet food retailer to manage its marketing activities.
“The marketing department was forced to operate without a usable query tool,” said Tammy […]

More than 30,000 BI developers have registered for JasperForge.org since it was launched in July of 2006, creating a vibrant ecosystem of businesses and community developers that has already produced over 130 BI projects.
JasperForge.org is an online developer site that provides free access to software and tools to build, deploy, and extend open source BI […]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) today previewed Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®, a new enterprise BI capability that enables Microsoft Excel users to directly access centrally controlled and secured Cognos 8 BI performance information for improved decision-making.
The self-service nature of the new capability will make it easy for business analysts, financial analysts or […]

Information Builders announced that Ace Hardware Corporation, the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the industry, has chosen WebFOCUS as its enterprise reporting tool due to the solution’s ease of development, scalability, and data access […]

Mainframes are established critical components in an organization’s technology infrastructure, housing vast amounts of data that decision makers can use to gain historical hindsight and predict future outcomes. This is why SAS has tightly […]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) announced today that Achmea Insurance Group has standardized on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to support its financial and business planning and reporting.
Achmea, the largest insurance group in the Dutch market, employs 22,000 people working in six departments: Care, Pensions, Social Security, Direct Distribution, Monetary Distribution and Intermediary Distribution, and Group […]

Oco, Inc. announced a new customer deployment for Dunkin’ Donuts. This new application from Oco gives Dunkin’ Donuts management and reporting capabilities for franchise development, supporting the company’s […]

SeaTab Software was named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner in a report titled “Cool Vendors in Analytics, Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management, 2007″. The report features five vendors cited by Gartner analysts for their innovation and market impact.
“It is an honor for SeaTab and the nearly 12,000 companies that use our solutions to […]