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Gartner: SaaS-based BI gains traction

Traditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing some traction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey by Gartner. A third of the 1,364 IT managers polled reported

Pfizer expands BI strategy with 'Intelligence Storefront'

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has long used a variety of business intelligence and analytics tools to identify trends in drug use with the goal of projecting future needs more efficiently. Now it is

BI tools hot at New York City Fire Department

You may not think that business intelligence software would be necessary for a city's authorities to know whether a building has been inspected, but that is the case in New York City. Until the NYC

Starbucks gets taste of new BI tools

Business intelligence tools have been making their way into the hands of non-analysts for some time, a trend that Starbucks has been pioneering. The coffee behemoth is now trying out new BI

The special challenges in BI purchasing

Business intelligence software can present an especially complicated purchasing decision. There tend to be a wide variety of choices among products and roles, licensing and server-based options,

Attivio dashboards help surface company data

Attivio announced this week the release a series of dashboards that should help companies surface data locked inside various content repositories. In addition, the company announced a revamped

Open source use rises in enterprise but still presents challenges

Use of open source software in the enterprise is on the rise, according to a four-year survey by Zenoss Inc. Of 950 respondents at the annual USENIX Large Installation System Administration

Six hottest IT skills for 2010

We've been asking for more than a year about what IT jobs will be hot when the recession ends. Now that time is just about here, and we have a general idea of what will be hot. There is new demand