Data infrastructure can hamstring your marketing success
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    XQuery support, .NET support among BI-friendly features
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Changes on tap in SQL Server 2005 worry some BI and DM pros
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Companies push a combined BI and financial-reporting solution based on the Unisys hardware and the Hyperion software
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft says CRM 3.0 will help drive end user adoption and reduce TCO
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Riding high on a slew of prominent enterprise deployments, Salesforce.com hopes Summer ’05 will add to its momentum
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company announces a supercharged release of its eponymous OLAP and relational database acceleration technology
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New blueprints are designed to support quasi-turnkey BI and scorecarding
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cognos announces an ambitious partner program and gives customers a glimpse of its forthcoming Cognos 8 BI suite, now in beta
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Executives are increasingly hip to the importance of business intelligence as an aid to decision-making
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM tries to keep current Ascential customers happy while satisfying the needs of new adopters attracted by the promise of its all-in-one data integration move
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business Objects’ James Thomas dismisses Microsoft’s Reporting Services as just another in a line of Crystal “clones”
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If EII is indeed on the cusp of going mainstream, technology pure-play Ipedo is a name you might want to remember
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    CSI plans to leverage its professional services expertise to address data quality shortcomings
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business Objects bills XI Built for Operational BI as a version of its BI suite that’s optimized for operational decision-making
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Based on the experiences of several users, BIRT looks like a good start—which should only get better
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Technology is seen as a potential boon to Oracle’s Fusion Middleware initiative
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With Dynamic ODS, DataMirror hopes to break out from its association with AS/400 in the minds of customers
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BIRT is enabled in part by technology expertise from reporting stalwart Actuate, which released a branded version of the tool
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”