BI This Week


Selling Business Intelligence by the Slice

Mid-market shoppers at the recent Sage Summit Customer Conference wanted to try BI by the slice, and many didn't even call it BI. Vendors' pitches kept that in mind.

The Value of Business Intelligence in a Weak Economy

When times are tight, BI can actually save you money.

Business Process Management and Beyond: The Human Factor of Process Management

How Best-in-Class companies make the most of BPM

IDC Report: Dominant Data Warehouse Vendors Face Challengers

A new study from IDC shows that which companies continue to dominate the data warehousing market and which are enjoying surging growth

With Project Unity, SAS and DataFlux Walk a Fine Line

Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.

Analysis: Flexible Text Mining for Science and Industry

Keeping up on trends, warnings, threats, and insights within unstructured text is a daunting task. Scientific researchers have the toughest job of all, and some have turned to flexible text analytics.

Question and Answer: Business Intelligence and Your Shopping Cart

As the complexity of e-commerce grows and security demands escalate, more companies are turning to ready-made “shopping cart” applications instead of building their own. Such products can use business intelligence and security, among other things, to process e-commerce transactions online.

SAP Unveils Data Migration Service

SAP and Business Objects tout an all-in-one migration service that's purpose-built for SAP environments.

Search and Text Analysis Lead BI Push

Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.