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High speed TGV trains get online
News And the unique answer to that - although it's quite expensive - is bi-directional satellite to carry up and down all this data with no interruption. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… [26 Mar 2008]
Slowdown on the cards for business intelligence
News The market for business intelligence (BI) tech is predicted to slow down following the strong growth seen over the past few years. The BI market is forecast to have grown by 12.5 per cent during 2007 by analyst house Gartner. [14 Jan 2008]
Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change
News Manchester Airport is using business intelligence (BI) software to help manage passenger flows through security after becoming one of the first UK airports to once again allow people to take more than one item of hand baggage on flights. [07 Jan 2008]
Teradata and SAS going steady
News Teradata, the datawarehouse software specialist with its own NYSE listing as of a week ago, has announced a strategic partnership with business intelligence (BI) vendor SAS. The SAS BI software will run inside Teradata enterprise datawarehousing... [09 Oct 2007]
Fighting against the data deluge
News While many might find the concept of business intelligence (BI) something of a contradiction in terms, interest in the subject reflects a growing concern for many organisations - too much data and too many problems navigating through it. [24 May 2007]
Swindon still top dog for fat pipes
News Connectivity in the Buckinghamshire town has been held back by its aluminium phone lines - instead of copper - and by an unusual geography that means previously its broadband was available at lower speeds compared with other parts of the UK... [23 May 2007]
CIO Essentials: Web 2.0 hype, Google and wi-fi risks
News Secondly, Peter makes such a valuable point about bi-directional working. Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter. [01 May 2007]
Comic Relief clowns around on YouTube
News Comic Relief has been running for more than 20 years and culminates in a bi-annual fundraising day which sees supporters wearing red noses and generally doing daft things to raise money for the charity and a fundraising show on BBC One. [28 Feb 2007]
Business intelligence heading for the mid-market?
News Hoping to find a market among mid-range companies for sophisticated business intelligence (BI) tools, Business Objects has launched specially priced applications for SMEs. This will appeal to many companies who would have thought that BI software... [06 Feb 2007]
Business intelligence beefs up
News The business intelligence (BI) market is predicted to be worth €1.5bn by the end of the year with competition between vendors hotting up. Andreas Bitterer, research vice president at Gartner, said while BI is recognised as a strategic priority... [31 Jan 2007]
HP taps up Russian boffins for research lab
News HP is tapping up scientists in Russia for a new research lab that will focus on developing cutting edge technologies to help businesses manage and exploit the explosion in digital data and information. [22 Jan 2007]
Goodbye quarterly reports?
News Take a look at silicon.com's BI Cheat Sheet for information on how businesses gather data and make decisions. Six financial heavyweights have called for companies to overhaul financial reports to make them more suited to the internet age. [09 Nov 2006]
Mobiles working on their sensor-tive side
News According to Jyri Huopaniemi, head of strategic research at Nokia's Research Centre, the company wants to see all mobiles becoming "full bi-directional members of the internet". Nokia wants to make your mobile phone as much a part of the internet... [06 Oct 2006]
Business Objects spends £30m on ALG Software
News Business intelligence (BI) is rising up the corporate agenda. According to a survey of 1,400 CIOs, published by analyst Gartner earlier this year, BI is the top technology priority in 2006, with CIOs planning to increase their budgets by 4.8 per cent. [13 Sep 2006]
Microsoft bolts business intelligence to Office
News Business intelligence (BI) tools, which generate regular reports or allow people to analyse data sources, are typically standalone products supplied by specialised providers. Microsoft plans to amend its Office and database product lines with... [06 Jun 2006]
