Information Builders unveil BI tool

Information Builders has unveiled a new business intelligence tool that the company says will allow non-technical end users to generate their own customised reports, dashboards and gadgets, reports eCRM.

InfoMini, a tool in WebFocus InfoAssist, lets business analysts and end users choose the information they receive from their business intelligence system "with the push of a button," the company says.

"The issue with many business intelligence tools for non-technical users is feature overload," Rado Kotorov, Information Builders chief innovation officer, said in a statement. "Ideally, what most business users want is a way to cut to the chase with their data - getting only the information they need when they need it and filtering out the rest.

Oracle has revealed the availability of the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) for Utilities, reveals AME Info.

The package is delivered as a separate, pre-built solution, which includes extractors and schema that pull data from specific Oracle Utilities production applications. These include dashboards that display information on maps, graphical dashboards that analyse and summarise information in charts, stoplights, top 10 lists, alerts and more.

Oracle Utilities plans to release several new BI modules to support its other mission critical applications over the next year.

Sales and marketing automation solutions specialist VivoForcerevealed the introduction of two products designed to meet the marketing and sales challenges of small to medium-size business clients and enterprise clients, says eWeek.

Both products are provided as a software-as-a-service application, meaning they can be provisioned and deployed without the need of an IT department. The company also offers a free trial via its Web site.

These applications allow the subscriber to measure the results of each campaign and expo, while a BI studio gathers and compares the data of multiple campaigns in one database. The platform's architecture is designed to allow subscribers to see that each dollar spent for campaigns and expos is being used efficiently and effectively.