Business Intelligence Journal

MicroStrategy announced MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 at its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The latest software release from MicroStrategy was made generally available on January 22, 2010. Work Faster with New Performance Enhancements MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 includes significant enhancements that make business intelligence faster for BI users, even at the highest scale of [...]

MarineMax, (NYSE: HZO), the largest recreational boat retailer in the United States, is using IBM business analytics to streamline operational planning, improve decision-making, and enforce more consistent, collaborative information access across the company. Since implementing the solutions, the retailer has been able to cut inventory costs, improve return on marketing spending, and reduce overall planning [...]

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 [...]

The BI Survey 7, a leading independent survey of the business intelligence (BI) software market, has found that MicroStrategy customers lead in Web deployment. For the seventh consecutive year, MicroStrategy customers are more successful in deploying BI via the Web than are customers using any other leading BI product.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]