business-intelligence

The company is looking to address longstanding gripes that so-called business-intelligence software—programs used by companies that take snapshots of business information, such as regional sales data, to help users identify key trends—is too difficult to use.

Database-Software Firm Tries 'Action Apps' Don Clark 2011

But the company saw an opportunity to grow by exploiting customer dissatisfaction with business-intelligence software, he said.

Database-Software Firm Tries 'Action Apps' Don Clark 2011

More small- to medium-size businesses are insolvent now than at the height of the global financial crisis, according to Veda, an Australian provider of business-intelligence services.

ANZ Caps Executive Pay to Control Costs Cynthia Koons 2011

The moment comes at 3 p.m., when a FedEx deliveryman rings the office doorbell and hands over an express envelope filled with compact disks, starting a process that turns arcane shipping records into a massive trove of business-intelligence data.

Global Trade And 'Twilight' Jonathan Bruner 2010

The jobless executive landed the top human-resources spot for WhitePages Inc. in March, thanks to an introduction by a business-intelligence analyst there.

Greasing the Inside Track to a Job 2010

The former operative of the British Special Forces and MI5 intelligence service now heads Diligence Inc., a business-intelligence agency he co-founded with ex-C. I.A. officer

With MI5 stint under his belt, he does special ops for CEOs 2010

The last tech deal of the week, Qlik, focuses on an emerging specialty: business-intelligence software, which companies use to analyze myriad data, including sales and expenses, to help drive more profits.

IPO Market Returns From Holiday 2010

Unlike other business-intelligence tools, text analytics can scour documents that use "natural" language, such as customer surveys, calls to the help desk or blog postings and emails, unlocking knowledge that would be too costly to search out manually.

Business Solutions 2008

The company will sell Kroll's Factual Data Corp., which provides services to mortgage lenders, as well as its government services business, but will keep the employment-screening, business-intelligence and investigations operations and its corporate restructuring group.

Marsh & McLennan Looks 2008

Productivity tends to wane when workers are suffering from financial or other pressures, says Laura Wallace, manager of work/life programs at SAS Institute Inc., a business-intelligence software company.

Employers Offer Aid 2008