
Jaspersoft Adds Big Data Support
Jaspersoft (see previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based BI vendor, today announced support for big data sources for Business Intelligence reporting. They recently released a ramped up version 4 targeting embedded BI market. With today’s release, Jaspersoft support native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing Analytics Databases. In this era of big […]

Jaspersoft Ramps Up Their Offering To Meet Embeded BI Market Needs
Jaspersoft, the San Francisco based Business Intelligence vendor, yesterday announced the newer version of their product, Jaspersoft 4, with embedded BI market in mind. Jaspersoft 4 leverages a new modular UI architecture which makes it easy to customize and embed, thereby making the BI tool more attractive to users. This version has a new GUI […]

Top 10 Cloud Predictions by…
Time for a lunch time blog entry… Information Management recently put together some cloud predictions for the cloud industry. Here’s my 2 cents for the key points I picked out. You will build a private cloud, and it will fail. Thank goodness. Get rid of the whole premise, it’s kind of stupid. The basis of […]

Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Earlier this week, I had a quick chance to use the new Samsung Galaxy Tab — the first serious tablet rival to the iPad — and check out its analytic / business intelligence capabilities. The device runs Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, so the first thing I tried was a couple of dashboards suitable […]

BI OnDemand Wins Best of SaaS Award
Founder of the SaaS Showplace web site, THINKstrategies has an award program to recognize SaaS companies who are delivering solutions which produce measurable business benefits for their customers, including increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability. SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has just been named the latest winner of the award: […]

Why Are Business Analytics Important? Because You Think You’re a Better Than Average Driver
Why are analytics important? Because 93% of us think we’re better than average drivers. This cognitive bias means that we’re overconfident in our decisions — and hence under-invest in the business analytics systems, processes, and culture that can lead to fact-based decision making.

Great Analytic Dashboards on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Corporate tablet alternatives to the iPad are now on the horizon.
At the recent Adobe Max 2010 conference, Mike Lazardis demonstrated SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards running on the brand-new Adobe-Flash compatible BlackBerry PlayBook.

Where Idiots Get Their Data: Other Idiots (Don’t Let it Happen in Your Company)
Bad data and bad conclusions are the scourge of “the internets” — don’t let it happen in your company, too.

Challenging Stonebraker’s Assertions On Data Warehouses – Part 1
I have tremendous respect for Michael Stonebraker. He is an apt visionary. What I like the most about him is his drive and passion to commercialize the academic concepts. ACM recently published his article “My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses….

The Future Of BI In The Cloud
Actual numbers vary based on whom you ask, but the general consensus is that the Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics in the cloud is a fast growing market. IDC expects a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.4% through 2013. This growth is pr…

What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
A World-Class BI program is one that changes the information culture of the organization. Here are five steps to help get you there.

IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow in Prague
Recap of the IDC BI Roadshow session in Prague, the Czech Republic, including some interesting BI data nuggets

Business Intelligence in Lisbon: IT Operations Dashboards
Business Intelligence Conference day in Lisbon, Portugal, with a great example of dashboards for IT operations.

Cloud based Business Intelligence as a Service
While Business Intelligence is not a new issue, cloud based business intelligence as a service (BIaaS) is a topic worth noting – because it is starting to catch on equaling the playing ground between big players in ERP and CRM with smaller players wh…

Business Intelligence Iceland: Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik
Download my Business Intelligence Presentations from the Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland