Business Intelligence


The Impact of a Recession on the BI Market

When it comes to BI deployments, organizations should not be "penny wise and pound foolish."

TDWI Audio Report: Starting a BI Program from the Ground Up

In this interview, Mike Masciandaro, Business Intelligence Director for global specialty chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, offers pointers on starting a brand new BI program within a company. Masciandaro headed the highly lauded rollout at Rohm and Haas of SAP’s BI software, an investment of over $300 million.

GreenPlum Sees a Sunny Market for its DW Appliance

GreenPlum has a plum perch in the sizzling DW appliance market

Saint Joseph's University Takes BI Education Online

If you're looking for flexibility and convenience, Saint Joseph's online MSBI program might be for you. Better get those GMAT scores ready, however.

The Greening of Enterprise BI

BI and DW players are touting the benefits of Green IT with products designed to help customers reduce their power and cooling costs

MDM: Background, Benefits, and Best Practices

Highlights from a keynote address at TDWI’s MDM Insight conference

TDWI Audio Report: BI/Open Source Synergies

Actuate’s Rich Guth discusses an annual survey of enterprise users that shows a high acceptance of open source BI in the enterprise. Guth also shares tips on when and where to consider open source BI for your enterprise, if you haven’t already.



Perspective: Use Sticky Urban Myths to Sell BI

How did one Las Vegas keynote speaker make listeners pick up a handout to read along? Simple techniques can make all the difference.

Teradata and Oracle Partner for Enterprise Analytics

Partnership will result in improved integration between Teradata Warehouse and Oracle's BI assets

With Reporting Services, Microsoft Slowly but Surely Pushes into the Enterprise

An updated Reporting Services may finally be worth considering

Analysis: System z10 Drastically Alters the Mainframe Market

Like the z9 EC and z9 BC systems that preceded it, IBM's System z10 drastically alters the rules of the mainframe game.

TDWI Audio Report: Improving Operational Effectiveness

Symphony Metreo CEO Tal Ball discusses the challenges today’s companies face in improving the operational effectiveness. Business analysts face huge challenges in making sense of disaggregated bits of information from across the enterprise, but new tools and approaches can help.

Cognos/SPSS Coupling Aims to Fast-Track Predictive Analytics

Partners say new integration between Cognos 8 and Clementine can help accelerate predictive analytic deployments

Sypherlink Tackles the Messiest of Data Integration Dilemmas

Sypherlink can help automate the identification and mapping of data -- and it has the patents to prove it.

What Makes a "Performance" Dashboard?

What separates a "performance" dashboard from its vanilla dashboard brethren?

SQL Server 2008: A Case of Too Much Too Soon?

Are customers -- many of whom are still satisfied with SQL Server 2000 -- interested in an upgrade to Microsoft's SQL Server 2008?

Have Data, Will Migrate: Informatica Announces Integrated Suite

Informatica says it can help accelerate data migrations while reducing risk.

BI Product Release Dates: Better Late Than Buggy!

What's the impact to your BI projects if your vendor misses an update schedule?

BI Industry Outlook: Busy and Bright

After a tumultuous year of consolidation, the BI industry outlook seems as busy -- and as interesting -- as ever

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

Users say PerformancePoint lets them preserve existing business processes and roll out BPM capabilities to hitherto untouched constituencies