Acquisitions of pure-play BI vendors was the big story, but the meaning will play out in 2008. How will the smaller vendors find a place in the new ecosystem?
It’s been a tumultuous year in BI. To review the highlights, and look ahead to the important trends of 2008, we spoke with TDWI Research’s Wayne Eckerson and Philip Russom.
In 2007, the large, independent, publicly-traded, best-of-breed BI and PM player all but ceased to exist.
Consolidation wasn't the only trend to stir up BI this year. Michael Schiff takes a look at other key events this year, and explains what we should expect next year.
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard is gaining solid support, momentum
Data quality, which began in the clean up and maintenance of accurate names and addresses in a customer database, has become a business necessity. As it has grown, data quality has also changed by industry and how it’s used around the world. A host of new technologies are also having an impact on how an enterprise approaches data quality.
Oracle announces BI and performance enhancements and folds Essbase into its BI Foundation—but what about Hyperion’s other BI assets?
Are privately-held BI players safer bets than their publicly-traded counterparts?
BI veterans give tech workers advice on getting ahead in the industry without burning out first
Just because IBM went out and bought itself a best-of-breed BI player doesn’t mean it can’t and won’t partner with other BI competitors
Predictive analytics seemed to sit it out at the recent Oracle OpenWorld, except for one recent Oracle acquisition.
Teradata, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft dominate the data warehousing high-end, but a host of upstart and veteran players are keeping things interesting
Oracle, SAP, and IBM will soon find themselves up to their respective ears in acquisition-related integration issues, BI pure play stalwarts argue
Today’s performance dashboards are cheap toys compared to the tools coming down the information visualization pipeline
Business Objects also revealed details about a forthcoming SAP/Business Objects integration road map, slated for early Q1 of next year
ParAccel’s analytic database can be used on its own or dropped right into place alongside your existing SQL Server assets.
What does the IBM/Cognos agreement mean? Analyst Mike Schiff explores the news from four angles.
IBM’s bid marks the third acquisition this year of a prominent BI and PM pure-play vendor.