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.
Microsoft officials say PerformancePoint will help take performance management mainstream. So do many of the company’s competitors.
It seems every vendor has its own pet take on how BI and PM relate
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….
In addition to its best-of-breed data quality platform, DataFlux has the makings of a formidable customer data integration platform, too.
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.
BI and PM together constitute an enormous revenue generating opportunity, worth nearly $24 billion in North America alone.
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.
An appliance, by any other name, is probably an appliance -- even for IBM.
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.
You’ve often thought it, but it took consultancy Gartner Inc. to confirm it: not every organization has a coherent business intelligence strategy.
Whether it’s Oracle and Hyperion or the future of BI and PM, Information Builders chief Gerry Cohen doesn’t mince words.
An independent Teradata will be a nimble competitor, Teradata officials argue -- nimble enough to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight.
Between the Balanced Warehouse and Dynamic Warehousing, IBM is executing a full-court press in business intelligence.
Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.
Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.
Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.
Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.
Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?
Microsoft expects to fold Forecaster into the same Office Business Applications group that develops Performance Point Server.