BI goes on demand
UK-based sales intelligence vendor Vecta has introduced an "on demand" service, which the company claims is an industry-first.
Vecta says the on demand model has largely been associated with CRM, but this service is breaking new ground by introducing truly operational business intelligence (BI) software as a service.
The company says Vecta OnDemand is aimed at providing operational BI to the sales force without the need for additional IT infrastructure or resources. The system delivers key customer information to sales and marketing teams in the form of alerts from a hosted Web-based application.
Cognos expands BI help
The Cognos Innovation Centre has expanded its focus to advance BI competency for the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale.
AME Info says the Innovation Centre is aimed at giving customers access to resources for improving the value derived from BI across organisations.
The first initiative of this focus area is helping companies launch BI Competency Centres. These centres enable IT and business to align business objectives, technology, departmental priorities, and stakeholder needs to drive increased usage of strategic BI.
UK info workers most wary of data
Research commissioned by Business Objects shows UK information workers are more disbelieving of data stored on their company`s IT systems than their global counterparts, despite using that data to make critical business decisions.
The research shows French, German and US workers suffer even more from the illusion that their data is trustworthy, Contractor UK says, with US information workers the most trusting.
The research also shows that despite their own experience of incomplete or conflicting data, information leaders refuse to believe faulty data is common across the corporation.
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