Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that the readers of WatersTechnology voted the company “Best Complex Event Processing Solution Provider” and “Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Systems Provider.” Sybase received the highest percentage of readers’ votes winning the EDM category for the third year in a row.

A 1996 Gartner Group report accurately predicted the importance of good BI to successful business operation in the digital age: “The key to thriving in a competitive marketplace is staying ahead of the competition. Making sound business decisions based on accurate and current information takes more than intuition. Data analysis, reporting, and query tools can help business users wade through a sea of data to synthesize valuable information from it - today these tools collectively fall into a category called Business Intelligence.”

In order to effectively achieve complex and large-scale changes to your business, the implementation of new approaches and strategies must be tracked, to ensure they are being implemented correctly and are achieving the desired results.

Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced a new HP-Sybase BI (business intelligence) reference architecture that leverages the HP Converged Infrastructure. The joint solution optimises query response and data loads with reduced overhead, storage costs and maintenance requirements.

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We recently came across this list of top 10 biggest issues with BI vendors and we could not agree more. This list is a set of grievances from independent software vendors, who wish to embed a BI solution into their application, that have had a poor experience with some of the other vendors in the industry.

Glen Rabie is CEO of Yellowfin Business Intelligence, recognised among 25 rising companies that CIO’s must know about, Yellowfin is an innovative and flexible solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities.

Despite all of the technology advancements, excel spreadsheets are still widely used by business users to create stand alone databases that allow them to merge external and internal data for reporting and analysis purposes. There are many reasons why this occurs, however; fundamentally it is because the business user does not have a viable alternative. They use spreadsheets because they do not have a choice. Finally with Yellowfin Business Intelligence they do!

In this whitepaper we explore why spreadsheet reporting is pervasive. Why is it that business users continue to rely on spreadsheets for so much of their reporting needs. In addition we will explore what the ramifications of spreadsheet reporting are, including the risks and issues that it poses to organizations and what steps can be taken to mitigate these.

“Business Intelligence and Location Intelligence users often have a very basic requirement,” says Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin. “They want to see, where they can sell more stuff. It is up to us, as solution providers, to ensure that they have the tools to help them do just that.