Business Intelligence


DataFlux and NEON Partner for Mainframe Data Quality

NEON’s Shadow technology gives DataFlux customers native access to information residing in mainframe VSAM, DB2 and IMS data stores

Q&A: The Key to Doing BPM Right

The CEO of a business performance management consultancy says projects need a broker between IT and the business sponsor.

Cognos Revamps Enterprise Planning Tool

Product improves insight into corporate performance management by incorporating financial and operational planning processes into BI and scorecarding.

Microsoft Reaffirms Commitment to Crystal Reports

Release of the company's Reporting Services add-on for SQL Server won't stop distribution of the limited-use version of Crystal Reports with Visual Studio. Meanwhile, Business Objects introduces a lower-priced version of Crystal Enterprise for small-to-midsize companies.

Oracle Touts a Hub for Enterprise Information Integration

Customer Data Hub serves as a single repository for data consolidation and cleansing.

Teradata Cozies Up to SAP

Partnership highlights Teradata’s unique analytic strengths

Users Cheer Microsoft’s New Reporting Services

Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.



BI Marketplace: What’s in Store for ‘04

Niche specialists will find themselves competing against stronger companies that have acquired their struggling competitors. Organizations need to make contingency plans.

Microsoft Unveils Reporting Services Add-On

Product offers a "one-stop shop" for creating, managing, and publishing ad hoc or production reports.

Behind the Ascential/PeopleSoft Agreement

Ascential can now claim to be the data integration vendor of choice with both SAP and PeopleSoft.

Siebel: Improving CRM OnDemand, One Acquisition at a Time

Actions show Siebel is putting its money where its mouth is in the hosted CRM market; CEO positions CRM OnDemand for small to mid-size enterprises.

Salesforce.com Plugs into Microsoft Office

Company announces a new plug-in for importing Salesforce.com data into Excel, Word, and Outlook.

Seven Strategies to Maximize Your Supply Chain Solution

Research firm Aberdeen Group says 2004 will be the year enterprises extend their supply chain solution, integrating it with other systems to reduce costs and improve performance.

Q&A: Getting Back to OLAP Basics

Almost one year ago to the day, Applix jettisoned its CRM assets to refocus on its TM1 OLAP engine, the original source of the company's growth. We look back on that move, and ahead to the company's interest in business performance management.

The Power of Business Intelligence: A Mortgage Banking Industry Perspective

Faced with systems that didn't adequately track, alert, and analyze data effectively, a BI solution united data from disparate systems to provide analysis capabilities that allowed a mortgage banker to better understand its customers, markets, and risk.

Q&A: Super-Charging OLAP Performance

HyperRoll says it can squeeze out the most performance from your existing investments in Oracle and Hyperion Solutions OLAP platforms without investing in more processing power or storage.

BI Leaders Drive Java Standards

A group of BI powerhouses have joined forces in two competing organizations with the same goal: to reduce the pain of building BI solutions with Java and Java-related technologies.

Business Objects Announces Integration Strategy, Product Road Map

Analysts say the combined company looks like a winner.

Microsoft CRM Gets Refresh

Version 1.2 is the company's first international release of its flagship CRM product