June 24th, 2008 by admin
From IT Web Article -
Business intelligence firm SAS is set to release a solution that enables companies to measure how their operations impact the environment – a tough sell for now but a step in the right direction, according to one analyst, says Inquirer.net.
SAS says its Sustainability Management solution allows end-users to measure business based on what it refers to as the “triple bottom line” of environmental, social and economic indicators.
SAS says its solution uses predefined “green” metrics from the Global Reporting Initiative, used by more than thousands of businesses to measure the environmental impact of their operations.
Source: Guru Kirthigavasan
June 22nd, 2008 by admin
From Intelligent Enterprise -
In leveraging the new technologies, Jaspersoft has built a UI that runs in all the major browsers and uses a drag-and-drop approach to using business intelligence tools.
Users start with a list of domains, such as billing, inventory, sales, marketing or any other topic for analysis and reporting. Under each domain is a list of data items organized in a typical tree structure. After a user drags data items to the workspace on the right side of the UI and clicks “done,” the software automatically generates the SQL statements for querying data stores.
Once the queries have been generated, the retrieved data can be dragged onto a designer workspace for generating reports that can be saved in the Jaspersoft repository and then used in a variety of ways, such as in a PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheet, a PDF document or email.
Source: Guru Kirthigavasan
June 20th, 2008 by admin
From Silicon Republic, an interesting article on the exponential growth of data -
CURRENTLY the amount of data worldwide is doubling every 11 months – by 2010 it will double every 11 hours.
Ireland stands in the direct path of this tidal wave of data, warns a senior executive with business intelligence (BI) giant SAS.
Dr John Brocklebank, director of analytic solutions at privately held software giant SAS Institute, believes Irish firms are ill-equipped to deal with this rapid growth in the world’s data.
He says the challenge for Irish companies is to capture and exploit the 1-2pc of data that is relevant to their decision-making processes and strategic objectives.
“We know that, on average, managers spend two hours a day looking for data and that more than half of this is useless to their decision-making process,” Brocklebank explains.
“Most frightening is that 42pc of managers say they accidentally use the wrong information to make a decision at least once a week. So never mind trying to deal with the data in its entirety; it needs to be made meaningful and accurate to support business decisions.
Source: Guru Kirthigavasan
June 20th, 2008 by admin
From Informatica Press Release, this is an important win for Informatica.
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders’ quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools report.
Ted Friedman and Andreas Bitterer, authors of the report state, “leaders in the market demonstrate strength across a complete range of data quality functionality, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision of where the market is headed, including recognition of noncustomer data quality issues and the delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence.”
According to the report, “growth, innovation and volatility (via mergers and acquisitions) continue to shape the market for data quality tools. Investment on the part of buyers and vendors is increasing as organizations recognize the value of these tools in master data management and information governance initiatives.” The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, is available on the Informatica web site at http://www.informatica.com/dq_mq/.
Source: Guru Kirthigavasan