Business Intelligence


Oracle’s ETL Power Grab Reconsidered

Some BI market watchers think the Sunopsis buy could spell the beginning of the end for Oracle’s Warehouse Builder.

Advizor Announces Office-Ready Data Viz Tool

Advizor officials says Analyst Office isn’t a preemptive strike against Microsoft in the Office BI segment.

HyperRoll and Hyperion Settle Accounts

Old patent infringement lawsuits don’t die, they just sort of fritter away....

Celequest’s SaaS Trump Card

Dashboard pioneer announces Software-as-a-Service BI appliance offering

Behind Oracle’s ETL Power Grab

Officials were mum (or mostly mum) on planned integration between Sunopsis’ ELT assets and Oracle’s own ETL product, Warehouse Builder.

With Demand Red-Hot for Text Analytics, Attensity Expands Suite

Demand for text analytics has been red-hot, fueled by compliance, fraud detection, and other emerging drivers.

In Praise of Dashboard Ubiquity

Effective dashboardization has real and tangible effects -- at least three of them in fact.



Actuate Preps Spreadsheet Thoroughbred

Actuate says it has a winner in its e.Spreadsheet 9, announced last week. On this and other accounts, officials say, Actuate isn’t sweating the Microsoft thing.

Dashboard Ho!

How a new breed of dashboards and scorecards will help usher in the convergence of BI and PM.

BI for the Masses? President Signs Transparency Act

You deserve to know where your tax dollars go, don’t you?

The Information Access Times Are a-Changing

How new “information access” applications will help drive growth for the business intelligence (BI), search, and discovery markets.

Wait Is on for Next-Gen Dashboards

Are next-gen dashboards too good to be true? It all depends on what you mean by "dashboard," industry watchers say.

BEA Revamps, Re-Launches EII tool

Far from being a BEA-only deliverable, ALDSP is a bona-fide EII contender, analysts say.

Survey Says: Microsoft a BI Force to be Reckoned With

If both Gartner and IDC say a trend’s a trend, then it must be a trend, right?

BO’s BPM Push, Redux

Business Objects must surmount several obstacles on its way to BPM prominence.

SPSS 15: Has Bells and Whistles, Will Go Mainstream?

Officials say the new suite will help SPSS break through to mainstream success.

Cognos Talks up BI on the Go!

Forget thin clients, the next frontier in enterprise information delivery might be mobile, roaming, or—heck—even roving clients.

In Focus: The Ins and Outs of BI Software Licensing

Is the complexity of BI licensing—like the certainty of death and taxes—just something customers must accept?

SAP Delivers Its First GRC Deliverables

The market for compliance-related software and services alone is expected to reach more $27 billion this year—and SAP wants a piece of the action.

Hyperion Stays the Course

Even though some BI majors are pursuing their own data visualization strategies, others, like Hyperion, continue to partner with best-of-breed vendors.