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Pfizer expands BI strategy with 'Intelligence Storefront'

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has long used a variety of business intelligence and analytics tools to identify trends in drug use with the goal of projecting future needs more efficiently. Now it is

Starbucks gets taste of new BI tools

Business intelligence tools have been making their way into the hands of non-analysts for some time, a trend that Starbucks has been pioneering. The coffee behemoth is now trying out new BI

Why business analytics can be misleading

Business analytics tools have become very popular in many industries, not the least of which is retail. While the technology is poised to offer valuable insights, it presents some challenges that can

IT, business units work together on BI at Toyota

The IT department and business units at Toyota Motor paint a picture of cooperation when it comes to collaborating on business intelligence. Following last year's huge product recall, the company

Analytics space poised to bloom

IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) is the king of the analytics software market, having invested more than $14 billion in analytics acquisitions over the past five years, but the space has room for some notable

Analytics paying off in diverse industries

Business analytics is on the verge of taking over the world, including your company, warns Yankee Group founder Howard Anderson. Every unit in your organization, from human resources, to marketing,

Shifting trends in analyzing big data

The big data phenomenon is spurring a shift in information analysis, leading companies to model complete data sets rather than subsets. Analyzing an entire data set may tend to bring forth outlier

Advice: Stop worrying about data quality

Here's a bit of advice you don't hear often: Stop worrying about the quality of your organization's data. Focusing too much on data quality and management can stymie efforts to put that data to work

Science explores new ways to analyze data

Efforts by scientists to deal with massive volumes of information, both newly gathered and archived, can offer some insight for enterprises looking for better ways to store, organize, analyze and

Coveo 6.5 concentrates on personalized business analytics

Coveo released a new version of its enterprise search platform this week with a focus on generating personalized content viewable in dashboards. The idea is to give you a dashboard view of the