Business Intelligence


Cognos Makes Peace with Excel

C8 BI Analysis for Excel isn’t some gussied-up version of your business-analyst-power-user mentor’s Excel import and export capability, officials promise.

As PM Evolves: Attack of the Big Spenders

Microsoft officials say PerformancePoint will help take performance management mainstream. So do many of the company’s competitors.

A Performance Management Primer: What Vendors Say

It seems every vendor has its own pet take on how BI and PM relate

A PM Primer: The Analyst View

Just how similar are BI and PM? How do they complement one another, and how do they differ? The issue might not be as complicated as it looks….

DataFlux Accelerates Customer Data Integration

In addition to its best-of-breed data quality platform, DataFlux has the makings of a formidable customer data integration platform, too.

RSI: BI’s Best Kept Secret?

With a new Flash-powered PM product in the offing and ETL connectivity in the can, Relational Solutions Inc. might be the best kept secret in BI.

Solid Gold: BI, PM Revenues Set to Surge

BI and PM together constitute an enormous revenue generating opportunity, worth nearly $24 billion in North America alone.



In Search of...DW Appliance Profitability

Netezza last week helped shine a light on the still-murky financials of the DW appliance segment when it announced its intention to go public.

TDWI Radio News: Big Blue Touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing

An appliance, by any other name, is probably an appliance -- even for IBM.

IBM Encourages Customers to Bring BI Back Home -- to the Mainframe

IBM is pursuing a number of pricing stratagems to help reverse the exodus of BI and DW workloads from its venerable System z mainframe platform.

Gartner Says: Organizations Flying Blind When It Comes to Implementing BI

You’ve often thought it, but it took consultancy Gartner Inc. to confirm it: not every organization has a coherent business intelligence strategy.

An Operational Spin on Performance Management

Whether it’s Oracle and Hyperion or the future of BI and PM, Information Builders chief Gerry Cohen doesn’t mince words.

Teradata Unleashed?

An independent Teradata will be a nimble competitor, Teradata officials argue -- nimble enough to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight.

Big Blue Drops the Appliance Anchor with Balanced Warehouse

Between the Balanced Warehouse and Dynamic Warehousing, IBM is executing a full-court press in business intelligence.

Competitors Comment on Oracle’s Hyperion Gambit

Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.

Appliances, Appliances Everywhere!

Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.

Third-Parties Augment Mid-Market CRM with Analytics

Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.

Oracle Comes Clean—Sort of

Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.

LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI

Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?

Microsoft Unveils Revamped Budgeting, Planning Tool

Microsoft expects to fold Forecaster into the same Office Business Applications group that develops Performance Point Server.