Fast And Furious
by Ted Kemp
February 10, 2005
Source: www.bizintelligencepipeline.com/trends/

Sales at Business Objects hit $925.6 million last year — a whopping 65 percent higher than sales in 2003. The company hopes to reach or top the $1 billion mark in 2005, helped by demand for a new flagship BI platform that fully integrates technology from Crystal Decisions.

Sales at SAS, the privately held business intelligence and analytics giant, reached $1.53 billion in 2004, up 15 percent. SAS pointed to healthy demand for its SAS 9 intelligence product, which has shipped to 20,000 new and existing customers, according to the company.

The story's similar at MicroStrategy, Hyperion and Informatica, among others. MicroStrategy chalked up 39 percent sales growth in the fourth quarter, crushing Wall Street's expectations. Hyperion's sales grew 13 percent year-over-year in its most recent quarter. Informatica reported a 7 percent revenue boost in the final period of 2004.

The Most Effective Direct Mail Campaigns Well-targeted mail campaigns are increasing in-store traffic
by Colin Beasty
February 07, 2005
Source: www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=4836

Vertis announced the results of its "Customer Focus 2005: Retail Direct Marketing" study, which revealed that direct mail campaigns increase the number of in-store and first-time visits from customers

Business Objects Targets Midmarket
by Rochelle Garner
January 31, 2005
Source: www.bizintelligencepipeline.com/news/59300120

"In 2005, we'll be focusing more on the mid-market with unique product offerings, more focused marketing efforts aimed at smaller organizations, and more work to enable partners--whether VARs or OEMs--to sell to these areas", Chris Caren, vice president of corporate marketing for the San Jose, Calif.-based company.

Wal-Mart tagging fuels RFID market
by Alorie Gilbert
December 22, 2004

Wal-Mart Stores' top merchandise suppliers are lifting sales of radio frequency identification devices as they race to comply with a January deadline from the world's largest retailer? Major consumer goods companies--including Gillette, Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble--have collectively spent about $250 million on RFID tags?/p>

Text Mining Software Goes to War
by Ryan Naraine
December 16, 2002
Source: boston.internet.com/news/article.php/1557441

Text mining technology from New York-based ClearForest is at the heart of a second multinational war games experiment being run by the U.S Joint Forces Command and defense officials from Australian, Britain, Canada and Germany.

The Joint Forces plan to use the ClearResearch software analysis tool to displays relationships between key facts buried in separate files. The text mining technology would help the military strategists to quickly tag and analyze information from multiple sources, allowing partners to plan military response to a mock international crisis.

The test — dubbed Multinational Limited Objective Experiment 2 — will run from February 10-28 and ClearForest said the coalition Joint Forces would enact a 2010 Pacific Rim scenario to establish whether they can share information test the enemy's technological potential.

The ClearResearch technology will be used to read, extract and process any type of unstructured content from multiple sources. The software includes tagging techniques that pulls data from documents, tags them and discover buried pertinent entities, events, facts and relationships, producing XML, the company said.

Business Intelligence Helps Fireman's Fund Extinguish Fraud
by Steve Dwyer, Senior Editor
Source: www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=2051&pb=ros

Over the years, Fireman's Fund has invested in technology supported by IBM Global Services along with SAS, so as it conducted due diligence on selecting a business intelligence platform, the decision to license Enterprise Miner seemed to be a natural fit. "We did research in 2001 and early 2002 and validated Enterprise Miner in pilot phase. We went live with the program in September 2002," says Ellingsworth

Across all of its many applications, Ellingsworth estimates that Enterprise Miner has added $20 million to $30 million a year to the company's bottom line in cost savings and increased revenue via financial and operational reporting competencies

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