Sybase intros deep mobile analytics

Sybase has unveiled Sybase Operator Analytics 365 analytics software for mobile operators, to provide them with deep analytics on billions of records in seconds, states Enterprise Network Planet.

The analytics can potentially save operator costs and head off problems quicker by giving earlier insight as to where there might be bottlenecks.

"If you've got tens of millions or hundreds of millions of messages every day, a tiny fraction of those not being delivered is a big hit on your customer service reps," says Dan Auker, senior manager for worldwide marketing and business solutions at Sybase.

IBM has unveiled a predictive analytics software laboratory in Xi'an, capital city of western China's Shaanxi Province, as part of the company's expansion plan in China, reports Global Times.

The lab, part of IBM's China Development Laboratory, is expected to become a global hub for analytics development, providing clients worldwide with industry tailored predictive analytics capabilities, while meeting rising demand for analytics technology in China.

The country's business analytics market is expected to grow around 10% per annum in the period that started last year till 2013 compared with 8% average growth in the IT market, according to global IT research firm IDC.

PivotLink is expanding its line of on-demand business intelligence (BI) software with pre-built sales, marketing and human resource management analytical applications targeted towards business users, writes Channel Web.

With its ReadiMetrix applications, PivotLink is trying to broaden use of its products beyond developers and data analysts to line-of-business managers and information workers. That's a goal nearly every BI software vendor has tried to achieve with mixed success.

"We call it 'insight-as-a-service'," says PivotLink CEO Quentin Gallivan. He argues the new self-service applications could be implemented and generating reports in days instead of weeks or months.