Business Intelligence


MDM Enthuses, Confuses BI, DM Pros

No one seems to agree on just what Master Data Management is—and many DM pros still aren’t familiar with MDM as a technology vision, either.

Informatica Revamps Data Quality Toolset

What’s that you ask? Since when did Informatica become a data quality vendor?

Informatica Moves 'Beyond Data Warehousing'

If 80 percent of enterprise information in unstructured, could the effective integration of that info spell trouble for the old 80/20 rule?

Long Is the Road that Leads to BI and PM Excellence

BI and PM programs -- like that eternal city of proverbial renown -- aren’t just built in a day.

Pitney Bowes Focuses on Customer Data

Pitney Bowes unveiled its new Customer Data Quality (CDQ) Platform, an all-in-one data profiling, data cleansing, and data enrichment suite.

Microsoft, Oracle Trade Salvos in the Battle of Linux

Both Microsoft and Oracle have now embraced Linux. What does that mean for you?

DataFlux Revamps DQ Suite

DataFlux 8 features new project acceleration and geocoding enhancements, along with bread-and-butter data profiling improvements



Imhoff Keynote: The First Word in BI Is ‘Business’

BI systems can work magic for decision-support, but only if someone on the business side sponsors them!

Business Objects Swings for the Fences

It’s been a busy fortnight for Business Objects, which previewed its next-gen BI suite and touted its new sales and marketing alliance with IBM.

Dashboards and Scorecards Hail Rise of Performance Management

An increasing number of organizations are tapping full-fledged PM tools—including performance scorecards and dashboards.

Kalido Revamps Data Warehousing Platform

Kalido is that rarest of extant creatures: a best-of-breed DW vendor. With a wrinkle or two, of course.

The SQL Server 2005 Learning Curve Revisited

For some organizations, surprisingly, SQL Server 2005 has been a more or less turnkey migration experience—especially on the BI front.

BI and PM Slowly, but Surely, Converge

While a growing number of organizations have gotten hip to the promise of PM, many are still in the PM iron age

Is Your Data Warehouse Dead? (Pshaw!)

As customer data integration rises, will data warehousing fall? Not so fast!

The (Steep) SQL Server 2005 Learning Curve

Some customers still haven’t deployed SQL Server 2005 in production environments. Their rationale? There’s a heckuva lot to digest

Win, Place, and Show: Oracle Spreads Its Application Hosting Bets

Last week, Oracle took the wraps off a new managed CRM service for Siebel. But doesn’t Oracle already market a Siebel CRM On Demand service? Yep...

SWOT: Oracle Acquires Sunopsis

Oracle nabbed yet another player in the business intelligence space. What does that mean for you?

Will Oracle Offer Its Own Distribution of Linux?

Everyone’s doing it these days, so will Oracle jump on the Linux bandwagon?

IBM Touts All-in-One Information Integration Suite

IBM says its Information Server slices, dices, and delivers data of all kinds, from almost any source, and in almost any conceivable format.

The SaaS Paradigm Shift—Did You Catch It?

Software-as-a-Service isn’t just a fad. If market watcher Gartner is to be believed, it’s a full-bore paradigm shift