Birst targets the important (but small) projects that are ill-served by existing BI tools, its developers argue
A study by Aberdeen Group shows what distinguishes best-in-class companies in their governance, risk management, and compliance activities and shows how BI plays a role.
Barry Briggs is Microsoft's key IT Architect and CTO. He has particular insight into MDM on an enterprise scale, and will share his thoughts during his keynote, "Master Data Management at Microsoft" at TDWI's World Conference in New Orleans in November. Barry gives us a preview of his presentation.
The Oracle/HP Database Machine is notable for being as ambiguous as it is ambitious. No one seems to know just how much it costs; which options it includes (or requires); or how much storage it encompasses.
Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.
The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.
Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.
Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems
On the Internet, a “mashup” combines applications or data from different sources --sources not originally intended to be used together -- into a single site or page. A data mashup, explains InetSoft’s Byron Igoe in this interview, is much the same -- it allows a user with no BI experience to easily combine and then manipulate disparate data from different sources.
Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS
The data integration suites of today are fast, flexible, and -- in spite of their venerable ETL roots -- far from legacy holdovers, proponents argue
TM1 isn't going anywhere, IBM Cognos maintains -- even if Big Blue hasn't yet ruled out changing its brand.
Data about data is a company's bread crumb trail to its information, but many enterprises have no management strategy.
One big challenge with predictive analytics, particularly in an industry such as insurance, is working with the large amount of very unstructured data.
Greenplum cozied up to Hadoop earlier this year -- but the MapReduce capability it announced last week is its own. What happened?
Escaping BI's Groundhog Day may take new vision and new interpersonal strategy.
In-database MapReduce helps workers tackle terabytes of information. What's ahead for BI professionals?
MicroStrategy's new widgets can improve how users interact with -- and understand -- data.
The iReport dashboard for JasperReports is the belle of the ball when it comes to NetBeans downloads.