Google Enters BI Market With Buyout of Looker

Google Enters BI Market With Buyout of Looker

Google completed a $2.6 billion buyout of the big-data analytics firm Looker Data Sciences on Thursday, February 13. With this purchase, Google is planning to compete in the BI market with Microsoft and Tableau. Although the deal was initially announced last summer,...
Survey: 90% of Central Banks Use BI

Survey: 90% of Central Banks Use BI

The use of business intelligence (BI) software among central banks across the world is increasing and bankers loving the new technology. A new survey conducted by the Bank of International Settlement (BIS)’s Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) on Central Bank Statistics...