BI Industry News

A lot has been made of social business processes and applications this year. Companies are focusing on collaborative technologies to bring more employees together to complete projects more quickly and efficiently.

A high adoption rate within a company is the most important factor in promoting the use of collaboration tools, such as social business intelligence, attests a recent Smart Data Collective report.

Companies looking to improve their operations intelligence and other business intelligence capabilities are turning to social media for help, according to a study from Jive Software.

While many businesses use pervasive BI and other analytics to track their company's progress, very few take the next logical step and share the information with everyone that should see it, according to business news site Voxy.

Within all digital strategies, according to a recent Enterprise Irregulars report, should be an area dedicated to social business intelligence.

Collaboration has been a buzzword among businesses lately, as companies around the world are striving to pull more success from the resources they already have in place.

Throughout the past several years, more companies in various industries have recognized the value in analyzing stored business data and drawing insight from the information through business intelligence technology.

In their efforts to become "intelligent, adaptive and responsive," many companies will deploy business intelligence and collaboration solutions this year, according to the latest Application Connection Priorities report from cloud integration solution provider SnapLogic.

New capabilities for self-service and social business intelligence are driving the advent of a new era for the technology, according to a recent report from iTWire.

As more companies look to foster collaboration among employees and promote the rise of the social enterprise, such technology will become increasingly important during the next several years, according to a recent ZDNet report.

Though the technology is nothing new, business intelligence has earned quite a bit of attention during the past several years. Innovations have made it more accessible, effective and easier to use, which has driven up adoption rates.

A strong relationship between a company and its data has become a determining factor for success, according to a recent report from Tech Leader. In order to build such a connection, many organizations are turning to social business intelligence.

A gathering of leading software industry insiders from companies such as Microsoft and small-scale entrepreneurs alike, the Data Summit 2.0 signals a wide acceptance of social media as a data source for industry.

Patients may keep secrets from their doctors but open up to strangers on the internet. This troubling dichotomy is one of the problems facing the medical profession today. It is also one area where social business intelligence can come in handy.

Companies with poor communication between units or wildly disparate data needs can find that the same report, for the same period of time, can be very different across the organization.