Business Intelligence


It’s Official: Google Enters the Apps Game

Can Google Office—not to mention a Google/Microsoft grudge match—be far off?

This Just In: The Ever-Expanding DW Appliance Marketplace

Why are the majors suddenly hip to the promise of DW appliances?

SAS’ Channel Play

SAS last month kicked off an ambitious new effort to train and educate VARs, integrators, and other resellers about its BI software

Will Open Source Be One of Your BI Sources?

Are you open to open-source? It’s out there, but look twice.

Applying Business Intelligence to Business Intelligence

WebFOCUS Resource Analyzer, a tool that’s designed to help organizations accelerate the performance of their WebFOCUS-based BI infrastructures.

Business Objects Embraces Eclipse

The certain undeniable logic of Crystal Reports for Eclipse.

JasperSoft’s Burgeoning BI Stack Coming into Focus

It’s a milestone release, analysts concede, even if—in most other respects—it brings little new to the table in terms of either features or functionality.



Cognos, Google Sound Off on Information Security

The challenge is to simultaneously ensure both the integrity and the appropriateness of BI data for the users who consume it.

Teradata’s Master Data Push

Teradata unveiled two new deliverables that are but the first in its burgeoning MDM portfolio.

Sybase Makes Dual Push: Data Integration, SQL Anywhere

Sybase hopes its new Data Integration Suite will help revive the fortunes of its flagging relational database practice.

Business Intelligence Security Steps into the Spotlight

Pop quiz: A bank employee “misplaces” a laptop containing highly sensitive data. What do you do? What do you do?

In Praise of Bundled ETL

What are the economics of bundled ETL, and just what do Oracle and Microsoft bring to the table?

Behind Big Blue’s $1.6 Billion Bid for FileNet

Big Blue already markets several content management-related offerings, so what does FileNet bring to the table?

Hummingbird Versus Its Shareholders and the Acquisition Go-Around

The content management specialist last week agreed to be acquired—for the second time this year, in fact—by an admiring suitor.

A Closer Look: Oracle’s New Warehouse Builder R2

Is OWB R2—which Oracle bills as a “completely free” core ETL tool—really that?

The Brave New World of Business Intelligence

The next wave of business intelligence will once and for all take BI mainstream, with query and analysis front-ends on every desktop.

Business Objects Unveils Data Quality XI

Before customers can adequately take stock of BO’s EIM push, it must deliver next-gen versions of its ETL and EII tools.

JasperSoft Flies the Coop

Organizers say JasperForge.org is the start of something big—but users grouse that the transition from the Sourceforge nest hasn’t been without a hiccup or two.

Microsoft’s Strong Gains Portend BI Superpower Status

Don’t look now, IDC’s Dan Vesset cautions, but Microsoft has the potential to radically reshape the BI landscape.

Informatica, Salesforce.com Plight Their Troth

It’s a big win for Informatica and an important milestone in the SaaS-ification of its data integration stack.