David Menninger is vice president and research director at Ventana Research, and has more than two decades of experience in the information management field. You can reach him at on Twitter via @dmenningervr or email at david.menninger@ventanaresearch.com

Predictive Analytics: Special Skills Needed
March 28, 2012 Adoption and use are up, but there’s a dearth of training and model updates

SAS: SaaS and Big Data in Store
March 26, 2012 Privately-held provider gives a check-up on business and plans

A Big, Cloudy, Mobile and Social World
February 2, 2012 MicroStrategy sets future on hot BI trends of cloud, mobile, social and big data

Big Data is More Than Hadoop
January 25, 2012 Research shows an evolving practice with many requirements

What Enterprises Can Learn from 2011's Major Events and Surprises
December 30, 2011 Hadoop, Watson and the Arab Spring each hold teachable moments for IT

Yellowfin 6 Advances Collaboration and Mobility Capabilities
December 23, 2011 Collaborative and mobile technologies continue to influence BI software products. The recent release of Yellowfin 6 embraces...

Talend 5 Unifies Information Management Platform
December 15, 2011 Now that Talend has unified its information management products, one of its remaining challenges will be to compete with...

Kalido Directs Data Governance
November 30, 2011 Information Engine 9 includes data integration features that make Kalido more competitive, yet I would prefer to see more...

Spotfire 4.0 is Socially Collaborative and Interactive
November 18, 2011 Updated version's integration capabilities are necessary to broaden vendor’s appeal and applicability, but new...

The World of Big Data Gets Even Bigger at Hadoop World
November 15, 2011 The unstructured data framework Hadoop is a powerful but immature technology that has grown popular despite its shortcomings

IBM Gets Big and Personal with Business Analytics
November 4, 2011 IBM continues to provide a broad range of analytics capabilities that are reasonably well integrated. It has work to do to...

Informatica Parses the World of Hadoop
November 3, 2011 I expect we’ll continue to see more investment from Informatica and others as organizations work to make Hadoop a...

QlikView 11 Advances Collaboration and Changes Course on Mobility
October 28, 2011 QlikTech deserves credit for continuing to enhance its product’s ease of use and providing new collaborative...

Teradata: All in the Family of Appliances and Big Data
October 17, 2011 Teradata, along with recent updates from EMC, Oracle, NetApp and Aster Data, is at the center of a trend in the information...

Steve Jobs Leaves an Indelible Mark on Business Intelligence
October 7, 2011 The full impact of the changes put in place by Apple's head innovator is still being borne out in the market, but we are...

Oracle Unveils the BI Appliance Called Exalytics
October 3, 2011 Kicks off Open World 2011 with a new data warehouse appliance specifically for BI

MicroStrategy Takes Cloud Computing Personally
September 30, 2011 After ignoring early competition from cloud-based BI providers, the company has jumped on the cloud BI bandwagon with a...

PivotLink Advances Business Analytics in the Cloud
September 27, 2011 With overhauled BI product and management team, provider looks to build upon its retail analytics efforts

Karmasphere Makes Sense of Big Data
September 23, 2011 The independent software vendor has carved out a niche in the big-data market where there are unmet needs, though it faces...

Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics
September 9, 2011 Grooming itself for a possible IPO, software provider introduces offerings and goals for its a real-time approach to big data

The Consumerization of Collaborative BI Has Arrived
August 25, 2011 There’s a big difference between analyzing social media data and collaborative business intelligence

Opera Solutions Adds Science to Predictive Analytics
August 23, 2011 Predictive analytics as a service provider positioned at the intersection of trends in analytics, big data, cloud computing,...

Teradata Previews Version 14 to Expand Analytics and Appliances
August 19, 2011 Marketing analytics are common within the Teradata customer base, so expanding into marketing applications is not a big...

SnapLogic Makes Data Quality in the Cloud a Snap
July 7, 2011 Cloud-based integration vendor sits at the intersection of two recent trends in information management

Yahoo Spins Out Hadoop to Create Hortonworks
June 29, 2011 Regardless of how big this big data market turns out to be, these are its early days and there is plenty of time for...

Operational Performance Management
March 24, 2006 As the enterprise understands the success of CPM in finance, they begin to realize that the same tools and strategies can...

Business Performance Management in Insurance: Taking the Risk Out of the Risk Business
August 9, 2005 Business performance management tools are critical for any industry.

Analytics: The Gateway to Balanced Scorecarding
January 20, 2004 Business is poised to capitalize on the balanced scorecard management style as companies increasingly rely upon analytics...