Industry's first portable BI platform

Information Builders, a company specialising in operational business intelligence (BI) solutions, has stated that leading organisations around the globe are rapidly adopting WebFocus Active Reports, writes MarketWire. This will allow for portable sorting, filtering, and analysis to better understand customer needs in real-time, improve decision-making, and operate more cost-effectively, says the company.

As the industry's first portable BI platform for delivering interactive analytic applications, WebFocus Active Reports has its own API, components, security, and analytic engine, enabling users to create active dashboards and receive Active Reports on mobile devices.

"Many vendors' dashboards are only available to select users instead of being distributed to all employees with operational responsibilities," says Gerald Cohen, CEO and founder of Information Builders.

At the London-based same-day delivery company, eCourier, it is not enough for managers to know the average number and value of recent orders placed by a particular client; that type of historical analysis can easily be obtained using traditional business intelligence tools, reports The Financial Times.

Technology now has to go further, identifying problems the moment they arise.

Given eCourier's growing customer numbers and high volume of daily transactions, that is not a problem weekly reports can solve, says Jay Bregman, chief technology officer of Crystal Reports.

Jive and Networked Insights have partnered on Jive Insights, a new feature of Jive SBS 3.0, states Enhanced Online News.

“As communities grow, the potential business value of the combined interactions increases, but the difficulty of understanding them collectively and in context increases as well.”

Powered by Networked Insights' SocialSense technology, Jive Insight will enable Jive clients to get a real-time view into the companies, products, and topics that their community is engaged in, as well as sentiment.