Business Intelligence


Predictive Analytics: Slow Adoption Despite Big Benefits

Why is a high-value technology such as predictive analytics so under-represented in the enterprise?

Tableau Marries Data Visualization, Dashboards, Collaboration

With its Web 2.0-based Tableau Server 3.0, Tableau touts a data visualization and dashboarding product whose whole vastly exceeds the sum of its parts

Best Practices for Buying BI Software

Experts on selecting BI software offer seasoned advice on choosing the right solution.

Business Objects Updates Crystal Reports, Announces IBM Bundle

Notwithstanding its impending acquisition by ERP giant SAP, Business Objects has been extremely busy lately

Informatica’s PowerCenter 8.5 Stresses Real-Time, Collaboration Features

IBM isn’t the only best-of-breed data integration player on the block, as the latest PowerCenter 8.5 release proves

Have Acquisitions Changed the Data Quality Market?

There’s been tumult aplenty in the once-insulated data quality market segment. What do the new data quality power rankings look like?



Big Blue Flexes Its Data Integration Muscles

IBM now fields the industry’s strongest overall data integration stack, industry watchers say, but Big Blue isn’t resting on its laurels.

The Analytic Beat Goes On

The analytic tools of today are a lot different from the bread-and-butter OLAP offerings of yesterday. The analytic tools of tomorrow will differ still more.

Industry Reacts to SAP’s Business Objects Acquisition

Most BI and PM players see an upside to SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects—but no two vendors see the same one.

Bay Area Chapter Explores Outsourcing, Visualization

TDWI’s second San Francisco-area chapter meeting attendees heard expert advice on offshoring and dashboards.

Oracle Vaults into DW Appliance Fray

How Oracle’s new data warehouse appliance entry complicates things for just about everyone.

Blockbuster Acquisition: SAP Gobbles up Business Objects

What does the deal portend for customers? A mixed bag, analysts say.

Continuing Industry Consolidations Lead to BI Vendor Dichotomy

SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects underscores how BI vendors are splitting into two camps.

What BI Thought Leaders Are Reading

What books have provided inspiration and insight for BI thought leaders?

Q&A: The Ins and Outs of Enterprise Master Data Management

Will MDM will succeed where past standardization efforts have failed?

Business Objects Reaches into Unstructured Data

With new BI search and text analytic entries, Business Objects takes on unstructured data

TIBCO Updates Flagship MDM Suite

TIBCO says its newest MDM release is also its most compelling MDM release to date

SPSS 16 Pushes Deeper into the Enterprise

As last week’s SPSS 16 announcement makes clear, the company wants to push even deeper into the enterprise