Inconsistent data within an enterprise data warehousing (EDW) environment reduces the effectiveness of a business intelligence (BI) capability. The EDW return on investment is eroded through a general lack of trust in its data, leading to delayed decisions, increased reconciliations, and costly errors. An emerging approach to addressing data reliability challenges called master data management (MDM) leverages a unified view of business-critical data...
 

Join salesforce.com and Westbrook International at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall to learn how the Insurance Industry is achieving success with Cloud computing...

Modernizing the data warehouse is the most important theme driving BI development today. Rather than starting with a blank slate, organizations are re-architecting their systems for operational efficiency, and responding to explosive new demands for integration, new delivery media, and new archiving requirements. In this webinar, Dr. Kimball takes a fresh look at the full data warehouse lifecycle with special emphasis on these new modernizing demands...

Why are businesses of all sizes upgrading to Oracle Database 11g? Because the results are in: Oracle Database 11g helps organizations drive down computing costs while improving performance, scalability, availability, and security... 

Special virtual event, June 23
Cloud computing for developers

Join us on Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 for live, on-line demonstrations of techniques and products, from IBM Business Partners WaveMaker, iTKO, Corent Technologies and Aviarc, that can help solve your technical challenges in the cloud. Register today!

This virtual event is ideal for anyone who is looking to build a cloud infrastructure or develop and deploy cloud-based applications. The no-charge technical sessions demonstrate real-world scenarios and provide skills essential for leveraging the cloud.

Cloud computing for developers - Partner solutions for rapid application deployment
Date: Wednesday, 23 June
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 04:45 p.m. (New York)

Session topics include:

WaveMaker - Chris Keene, CEO and Derek Henninger, VP of Engineering
Best practices for introducing cloud computing into the enterprise
Demonstration using WaveMaker's WYSIWYG tools to create a WebSphere application running in the IBM cloud with no coding or systems administration knowledge required
iTKO - John Michelsen, Founder & Chief Scientist
Application virtualization offerings relevant to the complete software delivery lifecycle
Manage test data for cloud application environments
Demonstration of how companies and service partners are deploying virtual development and testing platforms in cloud computing environments

Join Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, for the global launch of the latest release of Oracle’s business intelligence software.

Be the first to hear about Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, the new, industry-leading technology platform for business intelligence, which offers:

• A powerful end-user experience with rich visualisation, search, and actionable collaboration
• Advancements in analytics, OLAP, and enterprise reporting, with unmatched performance and scalability
• Simplified system configuration, lifecycle management, and performance optimisation....

In July, Oracle is expected to launch Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, which represents the most important and wide-ranging BI launch in more than three years.

Oracle President Charles Philip and Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian will host thelaunch event, which is scheduled to take place in London on July 7.

Already the provider of best in class BI technology and applications, Oracle is expected to extend that lead with innovations that make business intelligence execution

• Relevant. Increase the relevance of business insights by user role, function, industry, and more.
• Actionable. Make information more actionable by integrating business intelligence with business processes.
• Manageable. Simplify BI system deployment, management, and monitoring, while maximizing performance and scalability.
• Integrated. Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate time to value.
   

Addition of web analytics enhances IBM business analytics strategy

IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Coremetrics, a leader in web analytics software. Coremetrics, a privately held company based in San Mateo, CA, will expand IBM's business analytics capabilities by enabling organizations to use a cloud-based delivery model to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions internally and through social media networks to develop faster, more targeted marketing campaigns. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to optimize their marketing processes and gain deeper insights into client demands in order to drive brand loyalty by executing more personalized customer interactions. Companies are faced with an increasingly complex set of digital outlets to interact with customers, ranging from websites and mobile applications to e-mail and social media sites. Businesses must continuously focus on enhancing the customer brand experience and respond quickly to marketplace changes to differentiate themselves...

Data Models and Scoring Applications Available for Government, Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Law Enforcement, Insurance, and CRM Deployments

Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a partnership with Fractal Analytics, a leading provider of advanced analytics, to develop predictive analytics solutions on Information Builders' WebFOCUS RStat BI and data-mining platform. Fractal's predictive analytics solutions will be deployed through the WebFOCUS RStat application to help clients have an end-to-end solution from development to deployment.

The Information Builders-Fractal partnership is currently working with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) to develop crime-forecasting applications. Using historical data of crime patterns, Fractal is developing predictive models that will tell the CMPD when and where they should deploy resources to fight crime. Information Builders will implement these models through WebFOCUS so the police department can drill down through data and reallocate officers to targeted areas to reduce criminal activity. While CMPD has always used data to understand trends, this is the first time the department will use a specific set of data from multiple sources to forecast future trends. When implemented, the WebFOCUS RStat application will enable CMPD supervisors to forecast crime and develop strategies to prevent it using statistical models based on historical crimes, calls for service, the nature of crime, population density, weather, special events, and more...

New Business Intelligence Application Provides Visibility and Transparency into Project and Portfolio Performance

News Facts

To help organizations obtain up-to-the-minute information about their project portfolios, and in turn make better project investment decisions, Oracle today announced availability of Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics.
Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a new business intelligence solution that enables organizations to identify issues and uncover trends to reveal valuable insights into project and program performance.

This new solution provides management-by-exception capabilities through interactive dashboard reports, enabling organizations to benefit from enterprise-level reporting across the portfolio and insight into project trends and history.

The solution enables users to conduct root cause analysis and take corrective actions by drilling directly from the Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics dashboard into Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution...