business intelligence

• Article | 9/02/2012 Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

  Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increas...
• Article | 1/02/2012 Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

  Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer rela...
• Article | 28/01/2012 Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees

  Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software wil...
• Article | 25/01/2012 Microsoft reveals launch date for next-generation SQL Server 2012

  Microsoft has announced a March 7 <a href="http://www.sqlserverlaunch.com/ww/Home">online event</a> for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next genera...
• Article | 18/01/2012 Tableau revamps its BI visualization tools with user-centric focus

  BI (business intelligence) vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as we...

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