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Business Intelligence: Businesses Use Visualization and Drill-Downs to Discover Data Insights

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s recent research (download the report complementary from Microstrategy or from Tableau) on the Business Intelligence (BI) market shows that both Business Intelligence and the complementary technology Big Data markets grew significantly in 2012.  The BI market is on track

Big Data versus Business Intelligence: Two Technologies on a Collision Course

By Dick Weisinger

Today, products like  SAP’s Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion make up the leaders in the category of Business Intelligence software.  IDC reports that the Business Intelligence and Analytics market will grow to nearly $50 billion by 2016.  That market

Business Intelligence: Self Service BI is Still A Long Ways Off

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence is high on the radar at most companies.  Gartner says that businesses rank BI as their highest priority in 2012, and IDC is forecasting that the BI market will reach $39.9 billion in 2012. The current trend in

Business Analytics: Businesses Use Data to Understand Their Markets

By Dick Weisinger

The Global Business Analytics market grew at a rate of 14.1 percent last year and is expected to grow 10.1 percent annually through 2016, at which point it will reach $50.7 billion.  That’s according to a new report by market

Text Analytics: Leapfrogging the Tag Cloud for Greater Insight to Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Text analytics, also referred to as Text mining, is used in business intelligence and data analysis to identify structure and context in text data.  Text analytics uses a variety of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques.  Seth Grimes, independent analyst for