Jive, SAP partner for 'social BI'

SAP and enterprise social networking vendor Jive have formed an agreement that will see SAP's BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software integrated with Jive's community and collaboration platform, states PC World.

The companies made the announcement at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.

Jive's roughly 3 000 customers, many of which are large enterprises, "are looking to visualise and understand how social software is driving the bottom line," said Christopher Morace, senior vice-president of products.

Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for BI, have joined forces with Sun Microsystems to deliver a hardware and software solution that lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure, reports Earth Times.

The combination of these products provides enterprises with a validated, end-to-end solution for BI that is fast, easy to implement and manage at low cost.

It is ideally suited for integrating online and offline data such as Web analytics and customer information, to provide critical information needed to drive better business decisions.

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Real-Time Decisions 3.0, designed to help organisations make better use of their data in customer service, and Agile product life cycle management 9.3, designed to aid risk management in the supply chain, says Internet News.

"Oracle Real-Time Decisions presents relevant information across any interaction channel, including Web sites," Paul Rodwick, vice-president of product management for Oracle Business Intelligence.

Oracle's Rodwick told InternetNews.com that the software is designed to work with both Oracle and non-Oracle products.