Business Intelligence


Teradata – A Division From NCR

Spin-offs usually result in two discrete companies, but will that be the case with the division of Teradata and NCR?

David Vs. Goliath: Big Blue’s Composite Challenge

Is EII stalwart Composite Software IBM’s biggest competitive threat?

Behind Teradata’s Split with NCR

NCR and Teradata officials left a good deal unresolved last week, especially the question of who gets what.

Teradata Revamps Data Mining Toolset

Warehouse Miner 5 looks like Teradata’s most ambitious release to date.

Gartner Reports on HP’s BI Arrival

If Gartner says HP has finally arrived as a BI power player, then HP must finally have arrived as a BI power player, right?

Joy Division: NCR, Teradata Vow to Part Ways

After a marriage of more than 15 years, NCR and Teradata to part ways.

It’s Good to Be... Informatica

Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.



Business-Friendly Reporting via XBRL: It’s Not Just a Pipedream!

Wouldn’t it be great if there were an open, extensible business reporting language? The good news is that such a standard already exists. Sort of.

Ipedo’s Exotic Elixir: XML + EII = Decision-Making Nirvana?

What’s the big to-do about an XML-optimized EII platform? Plenty, says Ipedo

Enterprise Application Showdown: Feuding Paradigms of 2006

SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.

Software Heavies Set Sights on BI Superpowerdom

This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.

IDC Predictions for '007 -- 'Hyperdisruption'

IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.

HP’s Looming BI Push

With the acquisition last week of a prominent BI-focused services firm, HP finally seems ready to take its place in the business intelligence power pantheon.

It’s All About the Performance Management (Tools)

If new research from Gartner Inc. is any indication, 2006 was a heady year for most performance management (PM) players.

SAP: Once-and-Future Analytic Powerhouse?

SAP is no slouch in the analytics department—as its surging growth in IDC’s recent business analytic market surveys demonstrates.

IBM Bangs the XML Drum Slowly but Surely

pureXML extends DB2 9’s ability to store, update, delete, query, and index well-formed XML, officials say.

Business as Usual in the Fractious DW Appliance Segment

Netezza and DATAllegro announce appliance enhancements, even as IDC confirms that the DW appliance market has indeed arrived.

Acquisition Fever Spreads: Business Objects, Informatica Go Shopping

The BI acquisition-go-around continued apace last week, as both Informatica and Business Objects acquired smaller vendors

Data Warehousing Tools Market Surges

Oracle is tops in the overall data warehousing market, but Microsoft has officially arrived as a data warehousing superstar.

Oracle Tops in Red Hot Business Analytic Segment

Oracle controlled 13.2 percent of the overall business analytics market—far ahead of runner-up SAS.