Hot on the heels of Information Builders’ announcement of its adding predictive analytics to its portfolio, Business Objects has entered the space as well with the announcement of the availability of BusinessObjects Predictive Workbench.
BusinessObjects Predictive Workbench is integrated with BusinessObjects XI 3.0 and also offers data mining.
Capabilities include pattern-identifying among historical business data. Future scenarios can be thus extracted, allowing analysts and IT folk to get ahead of market changes, according to the company, who state that its goal is to make predictive analytics one of the key features of its flagship product.