News Coverage
December 04, 2008
The Inexorable March Toward Pervasive BI
Business intelligence will become pervasive. You can rest assured of that. The big question is: Who will get there first? Over the next few years, the answer will manifest itself in a list of the top-performing enterprises worldwide. So, what can your organization do to lead the way? Tune into this episode of DM Radio to find out! We'll speak with BI industry guru Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, Dr. Larry Harris of Progress EasyAsk, Sami Akbay of GoldenGate Software, and Robert Abate of RCG IT about the ways that organizations can greatly improve their use of information systems.
October 21, 2008
Make BI Pervasive by Making BI Easy
Internet search has dramatically changed how the world accesses information. As a result of popular Internet search engines such as Google, nontechnical users have become accustomed to getting instant access to information. In the workplace, nontechnical users haven’t faired as well. Many business users still struggle with how to get the answers they need when they need them. The challenge is that the information they need isn’t just an Internet search or mouse click away. Business answers gleaned from knowledge data sources by sophisticated business intelligence (BI) tools are often only accessible by a small group of power users, such as the corporate IT staff or analysts.
September 01, 2008
A Steady Uptake of BI Evident in Business
The Main goal of BI is to integrate, analyze and optimize organizational date and to create business insight and value. Like any other business sectors, SMEs are also demanding that technology solve their business problems and are also looking toward BI to help them make good business decisions and enhance customer loyalty.
August 20, 2008
In Search of… Enterprise Search
This episode of DM Radio features several industry experts explaining the ins and outs of this relatively new arm of business intelligence. Forrester Analyst Leslie Owens; Thunderstone CEO John Turnbull; and Dr. Larry Harris, General Manager of Progress EasyAsk discuss the tools and techniques for finding the discrete bits of information everyone needs to perform their job on a daily basis.
August 14, 2008
The Business Intelligence market has consolidated considerably over the past year but the customer issues are still the same: where I the useful information and how do I get it? BI has become and essential part of the IT armory of any organization that hopes to survive in the fast moving global economy. But the new landscape impacts end users and what used to be taken for granted about vendors in this space.
August 07, 2008
Towards a New Vision of Operational Business Intelligence
There is a clear need for BI to be made available to the broader base of business.
July 14, 2008
EasyAsk for Operational BI 11.0 capabilities enable business intelligence to become more pervasive across and beyond the enterprise because business users can use the product with little or no learning curve.
July 09, 2008
Uncorking the Data Bottleneck with Operational BI
At the strategic level, operational business intelligence (also known as pervasive BI) is about spreading the benefits of Business Intelligence to a wider community of users who are more involved with the day-to-day operations of an organization. On the surface, this would seem to be a simple process of employing existing Business Intelligence tools to users. Unfortunately, at a tactical level, it isn't that straightforward. The same BI tools that served a highly skilled analyst community are rarely appropriate tools for the broader base of operational users. Similarly, the kinds of operational data that these users want may be intrinsically different; frequently more detailed, and more transactional. It may demand more real-time insight.
July 09, 2008
Uncorking the Data Bottleneck with Operational BI
At the strategic level, operational business intelligence (also known as pervasive BI) is about spreading the benefits of Business Intelligence to a wider community of users who are more involved with the day-to-day operations of an organization. On the surface, this would seem to be a simple process of employing existing Business Intelligence tools to users. Unfortunately, at a tactical level, it isn't that straightforward. The same BI tools that served a highly skilled analyst community are rarely appropriate tools for the broader base of operational users. Similarly, the kinds of operational data that these users want may be intrinsically different; frequently more detailed, and more transactional. It may demand more real-time insight.
June 24, 2008
Data Search, Discovery Can Help With Skills Shortage
We live in an era of unprecedented skills shortages. At no point in SA's history has there been such a chronic dearth of quality skills, and with emigration on fast forward, don't expect the situation to improve any time soon.
May 22, 2008
Industry Insight: The Seven Deadly Sins of BI
Report cards are in from all over the world, and they are not complimentary towards the current state of business intelligence (BI).
May 07, 2008
EasyAsk: Business Intelligence for End Users
Progress Software purchased EasyAsk in May 2005. Prior to the change in ownership, EasyAsk offered natural language search to a range of government and commercial clients. After the buy out, Progress narrowed the focus of EasyAsk, as I understand the transition, from a broad search vendor to eCommerce.
April 01, 2008
Schlegel on Search, Analytics and Visualization
On the combination of BI and Search, for example, Schlegel admits there's much more potential than real adoption at this point. And on consolidation, he says visualization and predictive analytics technologies will be next on the acquisition hit list. Meanwhile, I was impressed that Progress Software has recently scored a handful of customers for its EasyAsk natural language query technology.
March 17, 2008
March 17, 2008
March 11, 2008
Progress Introduces EasyAsk Operational BI for Sales and Marketing Analytics
Progress Introduces EasyAsk Operational BI for Sales and Marketing Analytics
March 05, 2008
EasyAsk for Operational BI Simplifies Sales and Marketing Analytics
New EasyAsk software solution provides sales and marketing professionals with quick and easy access to critical information. Progress Software Corporation released Progress EasyAsk for Operational Business Intelligence (BI) software that provides a turnkey sales and marketing analytics solution, supplying quick and easy access to, and analysis of, customer and marketing data without requiring knowledge of the underlying data structure or heavy reporting tool skills.
February 28, 2008
South African Companies Select EasyAsk
South African Companies have selected Progress EasyAsk software for operational business intelligence to enhance their business users' ability to quickly and easily access critical business data. Progress Software Corporation a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, recently announced that four South African companies – Nedbank, Europ Assistance, Matrix Vehicle Tracking and Integrated Healthcare Distribution – selected Progress EasyAsk software for operational business intelligence to enhance their business users' ability to quickly and easily access critical business data that can help them in their day-to-day decision-making.
February 26, 2008
Four South African firms select Progress Software
Progress Software Corp. said today that four South African companies have selected Progress EasyAsk software for their operational business intelligence. Progress Software of Bedford is a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate, and manage business applications.
January 31, 2008
Familiar text-search engines, such as Google, sort and present results strictly by "relevancy." That makes sense in a document-search context, but not on an e-commerce site, says Larry Harris, vice president and general manager of Progress EasyAsk of Bedford, Mass.
