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

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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...

Delivers Industry’s Most Complete and Unified Business Process Management Solution

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To help customers lower costs, adapt to change and simplify business process management, Oracle today announced Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g.

A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g is the industry’s most complete, open and integrated Business Process Management (BPM) solution.

Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g supports all types of processes with a new unified process foundation, user-centric design and social BPM capabilities.

Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g includes a native implementation of BPMN 2.0...

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Plus Relocation Services, Inc. and International Car Operators Realize ROI Upwards of 424 Percent With BI and Integration

Information Builders, the independent leader in operational business intelligence (BI) and integration solutions, today unveiled financial returns and future savings metrics on two recent customer implementations, Plus Relocation Services, Inc. (PLUS) and International Car Operators (ICO). As a result of each project, both PLUS and ICO have improved productivity, reduced costs, gained new customers, and more easily retained existing customers.

"One of the consistent success factors in each implementation is how the companies made data available to a wide number of users, not simply back-office analysts with BI capabilities," said Gerald Cohen, CEO and president of Information Builders. "When companies make BI part of their DNA, and in the case of PLUS, spread to external users, the implementation payback time is extremely quick. And as we've seen with ICO, the use of iWay helping workers become more productive and accurate in responding to customers creates up-selling and cross-selling opportunities...

Online and Mobile App Delivers Answers to Specific Soccer Questions and Comparisons in Just a Few Clicks

For those looking to prove their team is the ultimate soccer powerhouse, QlikTech, a software company known for visual, interactive data dashboards, has created a free application that allows fans unparalleled access to statistics about the upcoming international soccer tournament. With this new app, available online or through any mobile device, soccer enthusiasts can click through nearly 80 years of international tournament history to analyze historical facts and answer little-known trivia questions...