Google last week took aim at one of Microsoft’s bread-and-butter market segments: its Excel spreadsheet cash cow.
Analysts say PerformancePoint is a direct strike against the BI Powers-That-Be. The Powers-That-Be, on the other hand, aren’t sweating it. Or so they say.
Software giant announces a new performance management complement to its 2007 Office System that draws on assets it acquired from ProClarity.
Orgs are increasingly hip to the importance of data visualization, especially as an enabling technology for analysis, Tableau sez.
Buying BI technologies before taking stock of the business lay-of-the-land is a lot like putting the cart before the proverbial horse.
That which cannot be automated might make us stronger, but cutting data integration time in half can hardly kill us.
Some experts worry that EII—which helps enable painless connectivity to disparate data sources—has the potential to be easily abused.
Remember virtual warehouses? Is that what enterprise information integration is about?
Microsoft grew its share of the relational database market in 2005—even though its BI-laden SQL Server 2005 release didn’t ship until late last year.
We take a look at Microsoft’s business intelligence aspirations and try to separate fact from FUD. First in a series.
Business Objects and IBI hop on Google’s OneBox Enterprise Bandwagon
Hail Mary or Hail Abbasi: Is Informatica’s come-to-SaaS moment a case of a vendor leading the market by its nose?
SAS’ PM platform release gathers together—under one big proverbial tent—several PM products it has marketed for years.
If your company lacks a data strategy, can you really reap the benefits of business intelligence?
Is EII a lead-pipe cinch or a lead-pipe dream?
How can companies automate the heavy lifting of metadata integration and entrust the rest to domain experts who really know the data?
Unicorn’s technology will help beef up the SOA and MDM capabilities of Big Blue’s WebSphere and Rational product families.
EIM strategy takes BO somewhat far afield from its bread-and-butter BI stomping grounds. Analysts say that might be a good thing.
For a product like WebFocus, support for that most coruscating of new Web app dev paradigms—AJaX—was a foregone conclusion.
Just because Microsoft is now a business intelligence player doesn’t mean it can’t "coopetate", so to speak, with the best of them.