Siebel releases flood of BI applications
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Capitalizing on the current trend within the enterprise to reduce the number of applications to support, Siebel Systems on Monday unveiled a package of business analytics solutions that can be deployed by IT as both extensions to current CRM applications or as stand-alone programs.
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Systinet, Amazon, and Altova this week are announcing tools geared toward development of Web services, e-commerce, and XML applications, respectively.
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InfoWorld - With a new release of its business process management software available Wednesday, Tibco Software said it is enabling a tighter link with SOA and delivering a more integrated user experience.
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A threat to traditional markets? JasperSoft has just released version 2.0 of its software, which makes this a good time not just to consider JasperSoft's latest capabilities, but also open-source business intelligence (BI) more generally.â¦
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IBM announced today the availability of its Retail Integration Framework (RIF).RIF is a SOA-based delivery mechanism that will support Big Blue's four retail process solutions or assets: multichannel retail; merchandising and supply chain; total store integration around point of sale and inventory; and retail business intelligence.Working with its ISV partners, RIF will give companies easier access to these four solutions through an SOA engagement, according to Patrick Gibney, director of industry solutions at IBM."Basically when you need to integrate an Oracle application to the total solution you buy from IBM, the Framework exists to allow the solutions to install quicker with higher quality and benefit from best practices," said Gibney.RIF allows a company to integrate in a heterogeneous environment at a customer location and gives a company a BPM (business process management) approach for the retail market."Model, assemble, run, monitor, and govern is what our BPM approach gives customers," said Gibney. However, he added that there is nothing turnkey about the IBM solution because the company understands that any out-of-the-box item requires some customization.Gibney also remarked pointedly that RIF "is not a product. You cannot go to IBM and buy it."Rather than a product, the Retail Integration Framework represents a long-term strategic platform that incorporates a number of key IBM assets, said Rob Garf, a vice president of retail at AMR Research."It incorporates Websphere but also takes advantage of Tivoli and Rationale," said Garf.The trend in retailing appears to be the adoption of packaged applications rather than the creation of homegrown solutions. The Framework will allow retailers to take advantage of the more innovative packaged applications now available while still giving them the ability to integrate them with their own legacy applications, according to Garf.Rather than just implementing another technology, RIF will also give retailers a governance structure that will allow all future implementations to work together."It also gives IBM stickiness [in retailing]," said Garf.Retail Integration Framework is available now and is an extension of IBM's existing Store Integration Framework.
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InfoWorld - Business Objects released new software Wednesday&#160;that combines EPM (enterprise performance management), BI, and data integration into a comprehensive suite aimed at CFOs and business finance managers.
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Business Objects is stepping up its efforts in the area of corporate performance management software with an acquisition and the integration of some existing applications with its business intelligence suite.
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OCTOBER 04, 2004  - LOS ANGELES -- Customer relationship management software maker Siebel Systems Inc. is moving to reinvent itself in a bid to revive its flagging fortunes and drive new growth.
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Since 1993, Siebel dominated the market for customer service software. In recent years, however, it has stumbled. Can it regain its former glory?
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Siebel is aiming to take a larger role in enterprises, by branching out from customer relationship management (CRM) and by making its tools easier to use.
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Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL) has been on a mission to lower the TCO of its applications since last year's release of 7.5.3, a version that concentrated mainly on cost-savings modifications and other user-friendly improvements.
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This paper explains how the newest offering from Cognos - Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - can help organizations avoid the "Fatal Flaws" of Business Intelligence and Performance Management.  The Cognos Views are not intended to be exhaustive; rather, they are intended to act as an introduction to Cognos 8 BI and a catalyst for further reading.
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InfoWorld - Business Objects has started to roll out a full suite of business intelligence (BI) software in the form of an online service, initially for customers using Salesforce.com applications.
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Microsoft has added new business intelligence (BI) capabilities to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005; according to an announcement today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server community summit in Orlando, USA.
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InfoWorld - Enterprise software takes an evolutionary step forward as Edge Dynamics and Tibco Software develop software that combines elements of both ERP and BI applications.
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Microsoft has extended the reach of its business data platform, demonstrating new business intelligence capabilities for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
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Right-time business intelligence is all about delivering the right information in the right format to the right people at the right time for decision-making purposes .In this report, we present an in-depth case study describing the right-time BI solution implemented by Sybase customer Shopzilla to improve the effectiveness of business decisions.  The company uses Sybase IQ to capture and access merchant consumer survey data in a data warehouse.