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Bluenog mixes secure enterprise wiki maker

Toolset targets non tech employees

MicroStrategy’s BI reports available on Amazon Kindle DX

To store, retrieve and review business intelligence reports

ClearPoint, Imperva partner to develop new data security services

To help organisations implement enterprise wide IT and information security metrics programmes

SAP enhances risk management products

To ensure that right controls are in place to manage business risks

PDF, TIBCO join to introduce new yield management product

To enhance yield analysis and visualisation capabilities

i2 introduces new visual investigative analysis software

To help organisations uncover connections, associations, trends and patterns hidden within data sets

SouthWare upgrades its Excellence series with Revision 15

Features interactive live portals for enhanced user interface

Teradata unveils new disaster recovery product

An off-site facility to tackle disaster recovery panic

Infobright, Pentaho team up with Sun to offer new BI infrastructure

To provide enterprises with a validated system for BI

Panorama unveils new web-enabled BI applications suite

To allow interactive analysis on relational data

i2 introduces new web-based intelligence application

To securely access, collaborate and share information

Comments & Opinion

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

Central Station: the rise of the CMDB

Interest in the configuration management database (CMDB) is helping to drive a wave of interest in business service management, or BSM. But is there real value behind the CMDB acronym?

Microsoft bids farewell to PerformancePoint Server 2007

Microsoft has announced its intention to move the scorecard, dashboard and analytic functionality from PerformancePoint Server 2007 into its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise, while dropping the planning module. While integrating business intelligence into the core stack fits Microsoft's wider strategy, PerformancePoint Server may have been a successful standalone product, given time.

Does SaaS fit into the complex world of pharmaceuticals?

Software-as-a-service is one of the latest trends in the IT industry, but the new delivery model still has a way to go before it becomes pervasive in the life sciences. The need for customized and niche solutions in the sector makes it difficult for the model to be fully leveraged, and vendors should concentrate on targeting customer relationship management-type processes, rather than R&D.

CBR Thought Leaders Series: Beyond IT performance -- measuring true IT effectiveness

Why do traditional IT performance measures fail to tell managers what their real IT capability is – or how IT is serving business goals? Richard Williams and Gordon Miller of Procertis, an independent consultancy and Intellectual Property development company focussed on IT and business inter-relationships, investigate.

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