Oz companies prioritise BI

Business intelligence (BI) software is the top technology priority for Australian companies, according to a new survey, reports Australia's Experian QAS.

Winning the accolade for the fourth consecutive year, the analytical application was ranked by 1 500 chief information officers as their most desirable program in Gartner Research's annual poll.

The revenue market for BI programs is expected to grow by 16% this year to $174.8 million (R1.77 billion), which is up from $149.6 million (R1.5 billion) in 2008.

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community have unveiled new third-party support for the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), states JDJ.

These new modelling, business intelligence and mobile application development partner offerings continue to enhance the productivity and choice that developers have with the NetBeans platform.

With the continued growth of the NetBeans partner ecosystem and to ensure more support for the NetBeans partner community, Sun also announced that the NetBeans Partner Program will merge with the Sun Partner Advantage Program.

iWay Software, an Information Builders division and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, has released an iWay Enterprise Information Management Suite, says MarketWire.

The suite includes iWay's new Data Quality Centre and Master Data Centre products.

Designed to provide complete business visibility with speed and accuracy, the suite lowers the total cost of information management by addressing enterprise information needs in a single platform with reusable services.

Information management has evolved over the years from strictly batch-oriented Extract, Transform, and Load processes building data warehouses and data marts, into complete end-to-end business-process-supporting solutions. These solutions incorporate batch and real-time, internal systems and external systems, structured and unstructured data, typical reporting and dashboards plus real-time event-driven reporting, dashboards, and alerts.