It’s early yet and the whole story has not been told. But the flurry of Lucidera “news” – mostly retweets and wild speculation – needs at least a brief response. It appears, in several stories from apparently reputable news outlets quoting thus-far unnamed sources, that LucidEra, a SaaS BI startup, is shutting its operations down.Continue reading “Lucidera Hysteria Misses The Point”
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Lucidera Targets Applied BI as a Service – And Wins
[Editorial update Feb 2010 – Lucidera is no longer in business as an independent company, but its assets, including LucidDB, are still in other products. To follow up, type Lucidera into the search box on my home page, and you’ll get a list of subsequent posts that discussed the failure of the firm and subsequentContinue reading “Lucidera Targets Applied BI as a Service – And Wins”
Birst Hopes to Ride On-Demand BI Wave
Birst CEO Brad Peters checked in with IT Market Strategy to update us on the most recent developments in the on-demand BI market. They’ve been busy; when we last talked in January, Birst had just hired Randi DiPrima to head up a global partners program, and a significant new round of financing was freshly deposited.