Business Intelligence


Separation of Powers: Drawing the Data Viz Divide

What qualities help separate best-of-breed data visualization offerings from their general purpose competitors?

Business Objects’ Data Integration Coup

Business Objects—the industry’s Accidental Data Integration vendor—continues to flex its muscles.

Tips and Tales of the IT-Business Gulf

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.

As Right-Time Approaches Real-Time, Data Integration Is Key

At bottom, real-time is a data integration problem: it involves getting fresh data to business users as rapidly as possible.

When Right-Time Isn’t Real-Time Enough

The bottom line: companies need to figure out a "right time" window that’s right for them.

The Power of Focus: Building Information

Information Builders touted new WebFOCUS enhancements at its annual user confab – and hinted of next-gen goodies in WebFOCUS 8.

Cognos Acquisitions Bear Fruit

Cognos debuts branded dashboard appliance, revamped Controller software



TDWI Radio News: Oco’s Suite Built From Scratch

Oco offers yet another alternative for business intelligence technology.

TDWI Radio News: Who Masters the Master?

A quest for the Golden Source.

Microsoft Touts PerformancePoint, Next-Gen SQLServer at Inaugural BI Fete

It’s official: Microsoft has arrived as a BI and PM power.

The Mainframe: Reports of Its Demise Are Premature

Mainframes are back; well, they never really went away.

Consolidation Continues: TIBCO Nabs Spotfire

Does TIBCO’s acquisition of visualization specialist Spotfire Inc. portend a coming round of consolidations in the data viz space?

Analysis: HP Unveils NeoView

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.

Beyond Reporting: InetSoft Thinks Bigger

iSuite boasts canned connectivity into heterogeneous data sources, which lets it support right-time reporting and analysis requirements.

TDWI Radio News: The Mid-Sized Market for BI and PM

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.

Why BI and PM Projects Fail

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’ Late April Binge

Business Objects picked up a best-of-breed PM provider and launched new versions of its ETL and EII tools last week.

A Personal Data Warehouse?

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.

The Dashboard Reloaded: Tableau Touts Version 3.0 Release

Tableau 3.0 delivers a host of niceties, including support for rich formatting, free-form annotations, and—chiefly—a new Dynamic Dashboards component.