Oracle’s announced intention to acquire Hyperion Solutions leaves many users, analysts, competitors and partners wondering: what’s next?
There’s a lot of overlap between Oracle and Hyperion, but there’s at least one segment where there isn’t much overlap -- BPM.
From every direction, predictive analytics will prevail and pervade.
TDWI Keynote speakers Jonathan Wu and Jon Koomey focused on the ways in which human behaviors can drive, or impede, BI decision-making.
SAP AG week moved to close the loop on business performance management with its acquisition of strategy management specialist Pilot Software.
The human side of BI poked its head over the data last week at TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas.
DATAllegro last week unveiled an off-the-shelf data warehouse appliance based on hardware from partners Cisco, Dell, and EMC.
Does IBI really intend to position WebFOCUS Magnify, its newest search offering, as a BI first? You betcha.
Is Adobe preparing to make a big BI splash?
What’s on tap for 2007? Many rank and file BI pros say to forget MDM, BSO, or other such novel acronyms; they’re focusing on more mundane stuff.
Business Objects has the makings of a formidable mid-market stack.
What do Teradata users think about the data warehousing specialist’s upcoming split from parent company NCR?
Oracle this week announced its first rev of ODI, along with an updated version of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tool it announced a year ago.
With PerformancePoint, Microsoft has a plausible reason to crow.
For SME firms with limited IT know-how, BI is an especially tough nut to crack. It’s a nut BI players of every stripe desperately want to crack, however.
Call it a fashionably late, but nevertheless feature-complete arrival.
The revamped BI Suite incorporates analytic technology from the former Siebel Systems Inc., which Oracle acquired 16 months ago.
If you haven’t yet heard of SaaS BI startup Xactly, consider yourself duly informed.
Who will get what when Teradata splits from parent company NCR? Oddly enough, that doesn’t seem to be an issue.
Not all industry watchers see genius in the deal, but those who do say Celequest gives Cognos some serious dashboard muscle.