Bi24 covers all of Gartner’s predictions

July 13, 2012

Gartner’s 2012 predictions for business intelligence focus on the challenges around Cloud, alignment with business metrics and a balanced organisational model between centralised and scattered.  CIO Australia has highlight the top six BI trends for the year ahead are:

  1. BI in the Cloud
  2. Mobile BI
  3. Analytics
  4. In-memory analytics
  5. The Agile approach to BI
  6. Big Data

The above is really big news for Bi24, C24′s cutting edge business intelligence solutions, as we cover all these areas in one solution. Current uptake of the product has seen clients throughout the UK and Europe using the solution to drive business. For more information please visit www.c24.co.uk

 

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20 million iPads sold in June 2012 quarter : Why?

July 13, 2012

 

  • 12 NFL teams, including the Cincinnati Bengals, the Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens, have replaced their paper playbooks with iPads
  • A growing number of airlines, including United Airlines, have replaced their paper pilot manuals with iPads
  • Other airlines, such as British Airways, are using iPads to manage their passenger lists, while still others such as Singapore Airlines and Quantas are using iPads as passenger entertainment centers
  • Both the Polish Parliament and Dutch Senate have substituted iPads for paper printouts of the documents read by their members
  • The deployment of 26,000 iPads in the San Diego School District, which likely represents the tip of the iceberg
  • One school reported a 10% improvement in the exam scores of students using iPads compared with students using paper books
  • In other schools, iPads are not only replacing textbooks but also personal computers
  • In China, iPads are finding their way into top-tier high schools
  • One quarter of European doctors are reported to already use iPads, a percentage that’s forecast to reach two-thirds in a year
  • iPads helped restructure $270 billion of Greek debt in record time
  • The iPad has found its way into zoos to test the intelligence of primates
  • The iPad is undergoing tests in New York taxicabs as a combination entertainment/payment device
  • SAP has deployed over 12,000 iPads running applications written by the company
  • Level 3 has purchased 1,300 iPads for its sales force, using applications written by Salesforce.com.

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