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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

MicroStrategy announced the general availability of MicroStrategy Mobileâ„¢, a new product that delivers BI information directly to BlackBerry® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM). MicroStrategy Mobile was included in MicroStrategy’s September 2007 software release. MicroStrategy Mobile offers powerful features that enable business users to receive the same reports on their BlackBerry smartphone that they receive [...]

Microsoft achieved key milestones within the business intelligence (BI) marketplace, including IDC’s recognizing Microsoft as one of the fastest-growing BI vendors in 2006. In IDC’s report, “Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares,” analysts found that Microsoft had a growth rate of 28 percent, the highest among the top 10 industry vendors. In addition, Microsoft® [...]

Cognos announced that Nestlé has selected Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to complement its SAP Business Warehouse reporting solution. Nestlé has already deployed SAP Business Warehouse as its global standard for data warehousing and analytical reporting. The company will use Cognos 8 BI to complement the SAP Business Warehouse front end to give power users the [...]