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DrivenBI Helps Companies Drive Analytics to the Next Level

Privately held company DrivenBI was formed in 2006 by a group of seasoned experts and investors in the business intelligence (BI) market in Taiwan and the United States. Currently based in Pasadena, California, the company has been steadily growing in the ten years since, gaining more than 400 customers in both the English and Chinese markets. Led by founder and CEO Ben Tai (previously VP of global services with the former BusinessObjects, now part of SAP), DrivenBI would be considered part of what I call a new generation of BI and analytics solutions that is changing the analytics market panorama, especially in the realm of cloud computing. A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with DrivenBI’s team and to have a briefing and demonstration, most of it in regards to their current analytics offerings and the company’s business strategy and industry perspective, all of which I will share with you here. (post-ads) How DrivenBI Drives BI DrivenBI’s portfol

Yep, I’m Writing a Book on Modern Data Management Platforms

Why? Over the past couple of years, I have spent lots of time talking with vendors, users, consultants, and other analysts, as well as plenty of people from the data management community about the wave of new technologies and continued efforts aimed at finding the best software solutions to address the increasing number of issues associated with managing enterprise data. In this way, I have gathered much insight on ways to exploit the potential value of enterprise data through efficient analysis for the purpose of “gathering important knowledge that informs better decisions. Many enterprises have had much success in deriving value from data analysis, but a more significant number of these efforts have failed to achieve much, if any, useful results. And yet other users are still struggling with finding the right software solution for their business data analysis needs, perhaps confused by the myriad solutions emerging nearly every single day. It is precisely in this context