New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence

November 16, 2009 by ADMIN · 3 Comments

BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone

In its recently released Global CIO Study, IBM found that 83% of respondents identified business intelligence and analytics as the best way to help enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. At the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM outlined a series of new products and services. It includes tools to analyze the increasing volumes of unstructured data found on Web sites, on social networking sites and in digital files.

Top Six Vendors for Business Intelligence

October 19, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone

It’s a highly competitive market that’s largely dominated by major software companies that have acquired BI vendors and added their capabilities to existing product suites. Here are the top six vendors by revenue and market share. Together they represent more than 80 percent of the current BI market.