SAS makes its formal debut as an end-to-end BI player
Company seeks to expand the definition of CRM to include non-traditional customers
Product may compete with company's long-time partners, but those partners aren't worried
The Business Performance Management Standards Group hopes to accelerate adoption of BPM practices in the enterprise
Companies adopting dedicated planning and budgeting applications (instead of spreadsheets) typically achieve greater accuracy while budgets and plans are more consistent, though time spent on these tasks wasn’t reduced.
i/Lytics Data Profiler will be released as a standalone solution; integration with its data profiling technology and the rest of the i/Lytics data quality solution will follow
Update includes revamped portal and enterprise application integration components; it also signals the company’s biggest effort to date to field a complete BI stack
If IBM already has a partnership with Ascential Software Corp, why has it just inked an agreement with Informatica?
Though the Basel II Capital Accord won't become law until early 2007, some vendors already pushing Basel II-centric solutions for a very important reason: customer history.
New charting capabilities and improved performance are among the changes in version 1.1.
Companies are spending more to support line-of-business workers with data than on projects for strategic decision makers (read, executives). Such actions are intended to help organizations streamline costs and save money.
Enterprises look to Linux to cut costs, with financial services leading the charge, but will SCO's latest Linux lawsuits stymie demand?
A repackaged CRM Midmarket Edition, the product's lower price should appear to small and mid-sized companies. Siebel is working with third parties to provide fixed-price integration and implementation services.
Web-necessary CRM applications can enable new business processes that aren’t possible with on-premises CRM solutions.
Look for continuing consolidation (including a possible acquisition by SAS). The President and CEO of SAS also sheds light on packaged analytic applications, the convergence of production and analytic reporting tools, and the company's next version of its BI suite.
With sforce Toolkit for WebSphere, companies can tap WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build CRM solutions that integrate customer and sales information with their own applications.
Data federating technologies—ETL, EII, and EAI—are the Next Big Thing, reports META Group, especially where unstructured content is concerned, but the virtual data warehouse’s biggest selling point—direct access to "fresher" source data—could be overblown.
Data Warehouse Maturity Assessment service helps enterprises maximize DW and BI investments.
Company revamps Essbase OLAP server and updates Hyperion Performance Suite
From a no-cost conversion program to new versions, the companies explain the user benefits.