Cloud-based BI stack unveiled

Four software vendors have teamed up to offer an integrated stack for companies that want to run their business intelligence (BI) in the cloud, reports ZDNet.

The Business Intelligence Solution in the Cloud stack brings together products from cloud-management platform vendor RightScale, BI software maker Jaspersoft, open-source integration software vendor Talend, and analytic database management vendor Vertica.

With the stack, businesses use RightScale's Amazon EC2-based cloud to upload and treat their data in Talend and Vertica instances, then analyse it using Jaspersoft tools. It can be configured automatically.

Google has updated its Insights for Search service used by advertisers and marketers to analyse search behaviour, states Computing.co.uk.

Insights for Search allows advertisers to see the volume and popularity of specific searches over time just by typing in a search term. Google has now added a forecasting feature that will let users see the search terms that it believes are likely to be used over the course of the next 12 months.

The new capability will be useful only for terms that have historical trends. For example, the term 'basketball' correlates with annual league events, and search behaviour relating to the term is consistent year on year.

IBM has unveiled software designed to analyse data collected by interconnected sensors, such as those that control lighting, water flow rates, road traffic or the flow of energy across power grids, says V3.

WebSphere Sensor Events captures the sensor data and then connects it to a company's business process management system, which can be automated to respond to the data by following a set of rules and events, according to IBM.

The company claimed customers can analyse the data to gain the better business visibility needed to respond to changing market conditions. IBM said that Volkswagen, for example, had tested the software to track shipping containers.