Amanda Dascalakis, Author at Intelligent Business Strategies

Younger Generation Vendors Rock The BI Boat

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In 2008, some 18 years since I moved into the BI sector of the industry, you would think that this space would be exhausted. Yet here we are seeing more announcements from relatively ‘new generation’ vendors aggressively going after this market. I refer of course to the announcement yesterday between LogiXML and Vertica on integration […]

Dashboards and Excel Data – Business Value or Lipstick on Untrusted Data?

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Over the last year or so I have noticed a real surge in companies using or evaluating products to rapidly develop dashboards. In my consulting activities in this area, I have been amazed at the reliance on one particular primary source of data that users have latched onto in dashboard development. This is of course […]

IBM Moves on Complex Event Processing

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Following on from my blog at the beginning of the year entitled “Predictions for 2008″ which predicted that Complex Event Processing (CEP) would be a hot topic this year, IBM has moved already in to play in this market by their acquisition today of AptSoft. With the growth in SOA and business process management as […]

Giants Start To Turn Up The Heat on BI & Search

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Microsoft’s announcement that it is intending on acquiring FAST last week is certainly the first major shot fired in the enterprise search battle that could ensue among the software giants. However it is not so much enterprise search that interests me in this context but the investment that a vendor like FAST had made in […]

Predictions for 2008

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Happy New Year to all of you! It’s that time of year again when predictions are made so I thought I would throw my thoughts into the ring for debate. So here goes: Consolidation in the BI market will continue now that we have seen the software giants make their moves in 2007. Oracle bought […]

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