Business Intelligence


Coming Soon: Better Real-Time Information Delivery

Sybase Real-Time Services is based on the open Java Messaging Service standard, setting it apart from solutions that rely on proprietary adapters.

Ascential: The New Data Integration Pure Play

Company's most recent acquisition underscores the somewhat divergent path that the company has taken from its competitors

SAS Skips BI Acquisition Feeding Frenzy

IT will continue to struggle to manage a wide portfolio of vendors, executive says

Enterprise Information Integration Tools Worth Deploying Despite Immaturity

Business benefit of EII increases exponentially with successive integration of each related application and database, analyst says

Actuate’s Nimble Acquisition

Action adds credibility to company's position in the Enterprise Information Integration market

IBM Strengthens Its Content Management Strategy

Company will use Aptrix technologies in its content development component for Lotus Workplace

Crystal Users Cautious and Guarded

Key to satisfaction: product support



BI Consolidation Continues as Hyperion Acquires Brio

Analysts give move favorable reviews

Informatica Retreats from Analytic Applications Market

Company will no longer sell analytic applications directly to customers; move signals a return to company's roots

Marrying Data Visualization with BI

Information Builders VP says visualization is a technology that allows you to figure out what you want to ask.

Business Objects Nabs Crystal Decisions in Surprise Move

Company says it's seizing the opportunity to take a leadership position in the BI market

Scalable Data Warehouses: Architects Must Improvise

Real-time requirements and faster performance are driving data warehousing changes. Inmon and Kimball provided a solid foundation, but large data warehouses may lead data architects into uncharged territory.

Q&A: Event-Driven Analytics

Informatica's co-founder and ex-president calls business activity monitoring a global positioning system for business health

Most Pervasive BI Tool Isn't What You Think

Vendors enhance support for Microsoft Excel as a BI front-end tool in their latest products

Q&A: Scaling Reports Across the Enterprise

Cognos says ReportNet can support hundreds of thousands of users

CRM: Beg, Borrow, or Lease

Non-traditional acquisition methods will increasingly drive CRM adoption

Briefs: Business Objects, SAS, Pervasive

BusinessObjects delivers on enterprise performance management; SAS joins Liberty Alliance Project; full-text sub-second searches of Pervasive.SQL databases

Microsoft Revamps SQL Analytic Development Toolkit

Company updates popular tool for creating custom analytic applications for SQL Server

Making Real-Time Business Decisions with BAM

Business activity monitoring pure-play Celequest says that it goes where conventional BI vendors fear to tread—into the heart of real-time BAM.

Briefs: Hummingbird updates suite, ClarifyCRM more efficient

Hummingbird Enterprise adds full query, analysis, and reporting capabilities; ClarifyCRM update designed for high-volume call centers