Software


LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI

Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?

Microsoft Unveils Revamped Budgeting, Planning Tool

Microsoft expects to fold Forecaster into the same Office Business Applications group that develops Performance Point Server.

Analysis: Behind Oracle’s $3.3 Billion Bid for Hyperion

There’s a lot of overlap between Oracle and Hyperion, but there’s at least one segment where there isn’t much overlap -- BPM.

Big Blue Still Sitting Pretty Atop Server Market Heap

IBM Corp. is server market king—thanks to the strong performance of Big Blue’s System x, System p, and System z platforms

Hosting E-Mail in a Storage Cluster

The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.

Network Admission Control: Balancing Security and the User Experience

Two strategies and a dozen tips help you improve your user’s NAC

For Job Security, Go with Z

zNextGen professionals say they’re drawn to Big Iron for the same reason as many older mainframes: staying power



Microsoft Forefront: Strictly Business

Microsoft doesn’t put enough edge into its security products, yet.

BI Decision-Making: The Human Factor

TDWI Keynote speakers Jonathan Wu and Jon Koomey focused on the ways in which human behaviors can drive, or impede, BI decision-making.

SAP Acquires Pilot for Strategy Management

SAP AG week moved to close the loop on business performance management with its acquisition of strategy management specialist Pilot Software.

TDWI Conference Wrap: Focus on the Human Side

The human side of BI poked its head over the data last week at TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas.

The Appliance Tipping Point: Commoditization

DATAllegro last week unveiled an off-the-shelf data warehouse appliance based on hardware from partners Cisco, Dell, and EMC.

A Tipping Point Prediction: More Predictive Analytics

From every direction, predictive analytics will prevail and pervade.

Careers: "Total Rewards" Packages Key to Employee Happiness, Motivation

IT organizations are hip to the fact that they’ve got to have the right people with the right skills at the right time to keep things humming along