Oracle unveils BI 11g
Oracle says its new Business Intelligence 11g offering provides rich visualisation, advanced reporting and performance optimisation tools, according to IT Pro Portal.
The software suite, released by the company at an event in London this week, will allow users to access a unified environment to analyse all data available from XML, relational, and OLAP data sources.
Paul Rodwick, vice-president of product management at Oracle BI, said: “Oracle Business Intelligence 11g delivers the complete spectrum of BI capabilities, spanning enterprise reporting, scorecards, dashboards, ad hoc queries, OLAP analysis, search, and actionable collaboration on an integrated technology foundation.”
MicroStrategy intros iPad BI apps
MicroStrategy's plans to offer its BI apps for the iPad and iPhone could bring the Apple devices into prominent roles in IT shops, says InformationWeek.
The company unveiled MicroStrategy Mobile for the Apple devices at the BI firm's user conference at Cannes, France. Significantly, MicroStrategy Mobile has been available since 2007 for the BlackBerry, long the dominant handset in mobile enterprise circles.
"Microstrategy Mobile can transform the way our customers conduct their business," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO, in a statement. "It will allow insight to be injected into every conversation and decision.”
Oz ICT job market recovers
Recruitment firm Hays says new financial year budgets, combined with 18 months of economic recovery, are expected create an uptick in the ICT jobs market, reports Computerworld.
Hays IT regional director, Peter Noblet, said employers now have a renewed enthusiasm to recruit after a period of downturn, during which staff numbers were downsized, which has now lifted leaving an insufficient sized team to deal with the recovered market conditions.
According to a quarterly report for July, the IT skills most sought after by employers will be in the business intelligence reporting space (including Microsoft technologies in SQL Reporting Studio and .Net) due to a desire for a better understanding of the company's critical data.
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