What qualities help separate best-of-breed data visualization offerings from their general purpose competitors?
Business Objects—the industry’s Accidental Data Integration vendor—continues to flex its muscles.
You don’t need a roadmap to find the IT-Business Gulf. Just walk down the hall or pick up the phone; someone in an office near you can elaborate.
At bottom, real-time is a data integration problem: it involves getting fresh data to business users as rapidly as possible.
The bottom line: companies need to figure out a "right time" window that’s right for them.
Information Builders touted new WebFOCUS enhancements at its annual user confab – and hinted of next-gen goodies in WebFOCUS 8.
Cognos debuts branded dashboard appliance, revamped Controller software
Oco offers yet another alternative for business intelligence technology.
A quest for the Golden Source.
It’s official: Microsoft has arrived as a BI and PM power.
Mainframes are back; well, they never really went away.
Does TIBCO’s acquisition of visualization specialist Spotfire Inc. portend a coming round of consolidations in the data viz space?
What makes HP think it can succeed where so many other vendors haven’t? A unique mix of software, services, and fault-tolerant servers, for starters.
iSuite boasts canned connectivity into heterogeneous data sources, which lets it support right-time reporting and analysis requirements.
As pricepoints drop and knowledge about business intelligence and performance management spreads, has the information management industry reached a tipping point? Find out what Microsoft, Business Objects, Hyperion, LogiXML and InSolve have to say.
It’s a no-brainer: few of them actually have the strong top-down support that they need to be successful, Gartner claims
Business Objects picked up a best-of-breed PM provider and launched new versions of its ETL and EII tools last week.
Can you have a personal data warehouse? One man has built it, but you won’t find it in the store, at least not yet.
Tableau 3.0 delivers a host of niceties, including support for rich formatting, free-form annotations, and—chiefly—a new Dynamic Dashboards component.