business intelligence

Tidemark Comes Out of Stealth With Funding from Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 17, 2011 at 9:09 pm PT

First known as the stealth start-up Proferi, Tidemark aims to rethink what it means to be a Business Intelligence application in the cloud.

Big Data Start-Up Platfora Lands $5.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 8, 2011 at 10:42 am PT

Platfora aims to make the data that lives inside Hadoop clusters understandable and easier to use. Also investing: In-Q-Tel.

GoodData Lands $15 Million in Funding From Andreessen Horowitz

Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 18, 2011 at 7:59 am PT

The business intelligence start-up has raised a combined $26 million so far. Also: Andreessen Horowitz partner John O’Farrell and Google Enterprise president Dave Girouard are joining its board.

InsideView, an Intelligence Dashboard for Salespeople, Raises $12 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A personal CIA for salespeople, InsideView aims to turn data from social media, financial databases and other sources into useful business intelligence.

Microsoft and HP Show Off the Fruits of Their Partnership

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

One year later, it’s time to see what the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest IT company could do with $250 million and a year to collaborate on cloud products.

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Talks About Growth, Business Intelligence, IPO and More!

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

Last week, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on Jeff Weiner, the former Yahoo exec who took over the helm of LinkedIn from founder Reid Hoffman just over a year ago. Among the topics of discussion: The strong growth over the last year of the social networking site focused on business professionals; its latest goal to surface “business intelligence” for users; LinkedIn’s competitors; and, of course, the likely initial public offering in its future.

Almost Famous: Pat Hanrahan of Tableau

Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on February 26, 2010 at 6:16 pm PT

This week: We dropped by the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford University for an interview with Pat Hanrahan. He isn’t just a professor of computer science and electrical engineering–he’s also the chief technology officer at Tableau, a software start-up that specializes in data visualization for businesses. Why do we think he’s the epitome of geek-chic? Maybe because he’s also a two-time Oscar winner. Seriously.

Microsoft, HP All Over This Cloud Computing Thing

John Paczkowski in News on January 13, 2010 at 8:58 am PT

Big news from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft today: A three-year alliance that will see them investing $250 million in a new cloud-computing venture. In a buzzword-riddled press release, they said they “will collaborate on an engineering roadmap for data management machines; converged, prepackaged application solutions; comprehensive virtualization offerings; and integrated management tools. Translation: HP and Microsoft will collaborate on the Windows Azure platform.