Vendors look for piece of stimulus cash with new BI apps - Business Center - PC World
June 5, 2009
The Obama administration's demand that government officials closely track and report how US$787 billion in economic stimulus money is being spent was not lost on major software vendors such as SAP and IBM, which have quickly rolled out BI tools that are supposed to help meet the mandate. Smaller vendors, such as Actuate, have released similar applications as well.
However, while one user of IBM's new Cognos stimulus-tracking toolset expressed satisfaction with how it works, he also noted that the matter is a moving target, since the federal government may still fine-tune its reporting guidelines leading up to the first quarterly report deadline of Oct. 10...
The Obama administration's demand that government officials closely track and report how US$787 billion in economic stimulus money is being spent was not lost on major software vendors such as SAP and IBM, which have quickly rolled out BI tools that are supposed to help meet the mandate. Smaller vendors, such as Actuate, have released similar applications as well.
However, while one user of IBM's new Cognos stimulus-tracking toolset expressed satisfaction with how it works, he also noted that the matter is a moving target, since the federal government may still fine-tune its reporting guidelines leading up to the first quarterly report deadline of Oct. 10...
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