SAS establishes BI lab

Business intelligence (BI) vendor, SAS, has together with the Singapore Management University established a laboratory on the local university's campus, states ChinaTechNews.

Called the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Laboratory, the facility is equipped with $485 944 worth of BI software and backend hardware.

SAS has also contributed $132 536 toward bond-free scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduates in information systems management, with emphasis on BI.

WiseAnalytics is conducting a survey on BI within small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that will collect information to assess how vendors are meeting the unique needs and business challenges of the mid-market, reports B-EYE-Network.

Questions posed cover issues such as the current range of deployment options, from on-demand/software-as-a-service to on-premise, and the factors that are influencing a BI implementation.

Overall, the research survey will explore how SMEs are using BI, which vendors stand out and to what degree BI vendors appear to support the unique requirements of this growing market segment.

Strategy Companion's BI Analytics for Dynamics CRM solution is now available on the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform, providing advanced BI reporting and analytics integrated within the Dynamics CRM application, according to Business Wire.

"With BI Analytics for Dynamics CRM, decision-makers can use and create easily understood reports and dashboards with key information about their own part of the business," explains Bob Abernethy, strategy companion VP of customer and partner solutions.

"BI Analytics' business intelligence capabilities makes CRM users more self-sufficient in creating detailed reports, analysing data, and acting on new customer insights," states Robert Sterling, strategy companion VP of partner alliances.