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Business Intelligence: BI Market is Ripe for Small Hyper-Growth Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI), analytic applications and performance management software sales grew robustly in 2011 by 16.4 percent from the previous year, totallying $12.2 billion, according to Gartner.  BI software now ranks as the second fastest growing business software sector.  An

Big Data: The 2012 Hadoop Vendor Race

By Dick Weisinger

And they’re off.  2012 is well underway and vendors are jockeying their Hadoop-based products for competition in the much-hyped space of Big Data. While Big Data does not equate to Hadoop, Hadoop is has increasingly become the tool of choice around which

Business Analytics: Deloitte Sees Business Intelligence and Analytics as Transformative for Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Expectations and excitement are high for Business Intelligence and Business Analytics in 2012.  James Richardson, Research Director at Gartner, said that “BI is about putting the I in CIO. Information will electrify your organisation.” Deloitte identified four trends in Business

Technology is 'Amplifying' the Enterprise, but Diminishing IT

By Dick Weisinger

What’s on the top of the minds of CIO’s going into 2012?  One thing is the budget.  Outside of bright spots in South America and a few areas in Asia, the continued poor economy is causing many global IT budgets

Data Analytics: Investment in Better Data == 'Low-Hanging Fruit'

By Dick Weisinger

“The cost of increasing effective data is relatively minor compared to the substantial returns doing so can bring.”  That’s the result of a study sponsored by Sybase and conducted by the University of Texas at Austin and the Indian School