Read here ... How Could Cricket and BI Possibly be Connected?

Read Jason Gates, Sydney, Australia blog

the need to extract information from businesses for decision making has existed before the first widget came off the assembly line, and it is now a global requirement...BI is a global sport. Cricket on the other hand has been around just as long. It is believed it evolved from the game “Rounders” in the 16th century – the seed from which baseball was born as well - and became the national pastime in England by the 18th century. Cricket is played in many countries, but only a handful of countries really excel at the sport. Alright then it’s fair to say both BI and cricket are widespread, but it is very difficult to really excel at either given all the variables in the environment.

Web based productivity suite provider Zoho announced data intelligence tool Zoho Reports.

Similar to Microsoft Office, but available online.

Zoho Reports works with Oracle, SQL Server, MySWL, MS Access Databases on the hosted and behind-the-firewall.

Functionality include Share reports, Dashboarding, create reports, or embed in iGoogle home page.

Build powerful reports and charts in minutes with our easy drag-and-drop interface.

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Increasing Business Intelligence Options for '10

Highlights
- Washington D.C. Center will focus on Federal Government, academia and other institutions in the Washington Metro Area on analytics projects
- 400 to 500 professionals through retraining or new hiring
- IBM has opened five other analytics solution centers—in New York, Dallas, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and India

[Via Eweek.com]

IBM continues to invest more into cloud platform technologies including DataStage & QualityStage lineup.

IBM Smart Business Services
Standardized services on the IBM cloud or private cloud services, built behind your firewall.

Important Cloud products

IBM Smart Business Services
- IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
- IBM LotusLive iNotes
- IBM Smart Analytics Cloud
- IBM Computing on Demand

IBM Smart Business Systems
- IBM Smart Analytics System

Cloud Consulting Services
- IBM Infrastructure Strategy Planning for Cloud Computing
- IBM Testing Services for Cloud

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