Features & News


Users Give PerformancePoint a Big Thumbs-Up (Part 1 of 2)

Many BI pros are already working with PerformancePoint -- some in production -- while still others are anxious to put it through its paces in their environments

Analysis: What Might a Recession Do for BI?

BI was made for economic slowdowns, and over the coming year it may get a chance to show its stuff.

Alfresco Survey Polls Enterprise Stack Practices

Respondents said they are using a mixture of open source and proprietary solutions

IBM Plus Cognos: Enhancing Information on Demand

IBM’s acquisition of Cognos was explained in greater detail last week; we explore the impact for BI practitioners

Return to Direct Attached Storage for DreamWorks

Is IBRIX truly a vendor-agnostic technology that can dramatically improve data access speeds?

Big Blue's Cognos Acquisition Comes More Clearly Into Focus

IBM is aiming its Information-on-Demand pitch to both IT professionals and business decision-makers

Study Highlights Use, Challenges, and Future of Virtualization

Independent survey reveals gap between virtualization’s importance and IT’s confidence in managing it effectively



Reported Drop in Security Threats Masks Their Severity

The number of new vulnerabilities disclosed by researchers actually declined in 2007 -- the first time that’s happened since 2003 -- but it’s not all good news.

Podcast: Self-Learning Performance Management

How is your IT environment performing? A new class of performance management software helps you look for patterns and spot abnormalities.

Visual Studio 2008: Collaboration is Key

With Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft's developer-friendly focus continues apace -- with some new wrinkles

Virtual Servers, Real Snapshots

Creating state-consistent point-in-time snapshots is now possible in server virtualization environments

Gates Says Yahoo "Needs Scale"

Scale was behind Microsoft's interest in Yahoo

Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to "Technical Customers"

Company reverses earlier decision to release in mid-March

Apache Synapse Bumped to Top Project Status

A new version of the enterprise service bus released

IT Pays a Price for Poor Requirements Practices

New survey quantifies premium IT pays for poor requirements gathering; focus on process, not documentation is key

Choosing a BI Architecture for Mobile Devices

As enterprise and mobile applications converge, users will demand consistency on mobile devices.

SPSS Refreshes Data, Text Mining Toolset

With text analytics poised for growth -- especially as a means to parse and index unstructured data -- it's a propitious time for SPSS

Future Shock: On the Pros and Cons of Data Modeling

Data modeling, proponents say, can help insulate an organization against change. Sounds good -- but is it true?