Gartner Taps Predictive Analytics as Next Big Business Intelligence Trend

Business intelligence is certainly a good area to be in right now, expanding faster than any other area of the enterprise application landscape. According to Gartner, the business intelligence market (including data warehouses and CRM analytics) is growing nine percent per year. While it was worth $57 billion at the end of 2010, it will…

Once Again Business, Not IT Top Concern for CIOs

Helping their businesses run more productively, efficiently and improving agility are the main concerns of CIOs today. Most also believe we are seeing the light at the end of the recession tunnel but few will commit to spending, except on safe bets. CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives cite business productivity and cost reduction as…

Budgets Remain Flat, IT Demand to Increase

A new report due out next week will indicate that, while IT budgets will remain relatively flat over the next two years, the demand for IT services will still continue to increase. Demand for services will also shift towards business intelligence and data management activities as companies try to manage and mine ever increasing amounts…

Taking Control with Real-Time Process Monitoring

In these dark economic times, an emerging product category is one bright ray of hope, particularly if you are looking for ways to quickly improve customer service or beef up your compliance or security. The category is a relatively new field: real-time business process monitoring. Think of it as a “sniffer for business events” as…