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Announces Pentaho Data Integration 4.0, World’s First Unified Development Environment for Business Intelligence Applications

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced the preview of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) 4.0, the next major product milestone in the company’s Agile BI initiative, announced in November. PDI 4.0 is the world’s first fully … Continue reading

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The Promise of Free Business Intelligence

by Lyndsay Wise With recent economic uncertainties and promises of recovery, organizations are taking a more conservative approach to overall software adoption. Consequently, the business intelligence (BI) market has had to adapt itself to help organizations take advantage of what … Continue reading

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Gartner Predicts that Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012

Future of BI to Be Discussed at Gartner Business Intelligence Summits, in London, Sydney, and Las Vegas Once the preserve of cash-strapped organizations, open-source business intelligence (BI) tools are becoming a mainstream deployment option for all kinds of BI usage, … Continue reading

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The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management

By Nenshad Bardoliwalla In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have … Continue reading

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At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege

By STEVE LOHR A TOUR of its carefully tended, 300-acre corporate campus here leaves little doubt why surveys, year after year, rate the SAS Institute, the world’s largest private software company, among the best places to work. There is the … Continue reading

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Yellowfin Business Intelligence CEO give opinions on Open Source BI

The nature of the Business Intelligence industry is changing. Major acquisitions of the past few years have seen most of the traditional players rolled into the mega vendors, and now we are staring to see the emergence of alternative solutions. … Continue reading

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Nigel Pendse Sharply Criticises Traditional BI Providers at the 2009 Palo Open

OLAP Guru Nigel Pendse Recommends Smaller Software Providers In his speech, keynote speaker Nigel Pendse, software analyst and publisher of BI Survey, sharply criticised large producers of Business Intelligence software. The annual meeting of users and partners of the open … Continue reading

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Pentaho Buying SaaS From LucidEra

Pentaho, a commercial open-source business intelligence vendor, has acquired LucidEra’s Web-based interactive reporting tools for non-technical business users. Pentaho on Monday said LucidEra’s Clearview product would be packaged as Pentaho Analyzer Enterprise Edition. The software will be offered as the … Continue reading

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Kickfire Unveils New Data Warehouse Appliance for Demanding Mainstream Applications

The High Performance 3000 Series is the Industry’s Fastest-to-Deploy and Lowest Cost Appliance on the Market Today Kickfire, Inc. today announced its next-generation data warehouse appliance for powering mainstream data warehouse systems up to 5TB in size. With models starting … Continue reading

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Bi3 Solutions Named One of “America`s Most Promising Companies” by Forbes

Business Intelligence Software-as-a-Service Company among a Select Ranking of Promising New Companies Bi3 Solutions, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that is redefining business intelligence (BI), today announced it has been selected by Forbes for its listing of “America`s Most Promising Companies.” … Continue reading

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