Spotfire has over 800 active customers including such global leaders as ABN AMRO, AMD, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chevron, Merck, Pfizer, Shell, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Unilever, along with a variety of government agencies involved in both civilian and intelligence services. Spotfire also has a strong global sales force and solution partner network.

AMR Research provided some alternatives on what could happen to Teradata after spinoff. SAP or IBM or Oracle (ORCL) acquires Teradata. Alternatively, private equity like Golden Gate Capital (portfolio companies include Infor Global Solutions and Ecometry), Francisco Partners (Attachmate, RedPrairie, and GXS), Thoma Cressey Partners (JDA and Made2Manage), or Bain Capital might consider Teradata.

Some of the key capabilities and benefits of NovaView® 5 Release 2 include, but are not limited to:

- Advanced caching and connection pooling for the best BW performance available;

- Provides end users with powerful yet intuitive capabilities such as 'self service reporting', full data interaction such as filtering, sorting, exception management and more;

- Enhances enterprise delivery of BI through variety of front end tools: mySAP Portal, SharePoint, Dashboards, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and more;

- Integrates with the SAP BEx and is designed to directly run on InfoCubes, BW Queries and ODS;

- Advanced user collaboration ; and

- Enhanced security options at each level (portal/web/access) to ensure data is accessed confidentially and at the discretion of the organization.

BlueVue Business Intelligence Software provides customizable reporting for any data source, with turnkey solutions for most Call Center Technologies such as Cisco ICM\IPCC and Aspect eWFM.

• new components and enhancements to enable pervasive, enterprise-wide intelligence;
• strategic integration with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database
• expanded "hot-pluggable" support for third-party data sources and systems.
  

Enabling pervasive intelligence demands a new class of BI capabilities -- information must be relevant to all users, delivered in time to affect business results, be accessible through a broad range of mediums such as dashboards, alerts, and reports, and be integrated seamlessly into business processes and workflow. The BI architecture must also provide a foundation that can scale economically over time to handle nearly limitless data growth and user demands. The next release of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition plans to extend Oracle's unique capabilities across all of these dimensions.

By adopting an integrative analytics approach, an organization can orchestrate all the tasks involved in increasingly complex decision-making processes using multiple data sources and tools, whilst enabling every user to easily derive the knowledge they need to make better decisions, faster, with increasingly scarce resources.

As part of a new partner agreement, Hyperion announced plans to bring its acclaimed Hyperion System 9 together with technology from HyperRoll, a provider of high-performance data aggregation software for business intelligence (BI) applications. The partner agreement is part of a mutual resolution of patent litigation between the two companies, which also includes a technology cross-licensing arrangement, and an equity investment by Hyperion in HyperRoll.

Visual i|o advanced visualization applications offer a more effective way to acquire, analyze, understand, and use information. The presentation-tier applications leverage existing IT systems and data sources to bring an entirely new level of visibility and clarity to support the decision-making efforts of executives, managers, knowledge workers, and consumers.

The study reveals that business intelligence vendors will be adding content technologies such as categorization, fuzzy matching, and text analytics to their applications through acquisitions and partnerships with content vendors. The study finds that while content vendors clearly have the edge in functionality, business intelligence vendors have the greater market share. IDC predicts that this will lead to a convergence of these two markets and technologies. Meanwhile, the study indicates that database vendors have been slower to recognize that they are missing pieces needed to achieve unified access to information.

IDC added, "Both content and business intelligence/database vendors need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their technologies and the synergy that combining them provides. Both sets of vendors also need to move from the hype to the hard facts in educating the marketplace. An educated marketplace that understands the different approaches to information access, discovery, and analysis will shorten the sales cycle and boost sales."

At the core of the PPM platform is a profiling and prediction engine that gathers performance data from the environment and continuously builds and calibrates individual service delivery profiles by user-defined lines-of-business. These comprehensive profiles measure current vs. planned service delivery and can be analyzed in real time to provide near term forward-looking views of possible service breaches that help IT management understand and manage change by anticipating performance problems before they become major performance crises. 

The company offers solutions for Web Automation, Unified Client View, real-time Control Panels, Virtual Data Repositories, Mobile Services or voice portals on real-time data, Comparative Buying or standardization of catalogs and Information Integration Solutions for different vertical industries. 

• Predictive analysis and forecasting that allows any user to apply predictive analysis to any metric set, designing a view that shows historical metrics and predicts future achievement using standard patterns
• Performance correlation capabilities that gives users the ability to view any two metrics or objectives in a manner that helps determine if there is a relationship between the two; this capability can be used to help determine if there is a real cause-and-effect relationship and, when planning, the results can be used to influence how targets are set
• Boardroom quality strategy map, based on industry standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology that allows direct access to the cascade of scorecards in the system via hyperlinks and pop-up menus
• Business-process management support that lets users align objectives or goals to core business processes and link those processes to supporting documentation, such as an operational WebFOCUS report
• Scorecarding cascading that lets users organize scorecards in a hierarchical linkage, allowing them to drill up and down through various scorecards in the organization
• The ability to publish unlimited public views to deliver performance dashboards to all stakeholders in an organization, including executives, managers, and employees, as well as board members, partners, and citizens outside of the organization
• Alert management, which implements WebFOCUS ReportCaster alerts via an intuitive user interface model; users can directly add, change, or delete existing alerts and view any fired alert history on demand, allowing users to track the history for management or compliance reporting
• Enhanced automatic data security that automatically filters data for users by values on any single dimension; this capability can be specified for individual users or groups to set the level of their data access