Pure players Spotfire and Tableau have quite a head start on what Microsoft and others currently bring to the table visualization-wise.
Oracle positions OWB R2 as a full-blown competitor to enterprise ETL solutions from IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute.
Business Objects hopes to do for data visualization what the former Crystal Decisions once did for reporting: make it ubiquitous.
When users speak, says Office BI guru Alex Payne, Microsoft listens.
Ipedo last week announced a refresh of its EII suite that’s tweaked for service-ability, officials say.
Cognos is no stranger to professional services, having collaborated with an ecosystem of partners for some time, but last week’s announcements marked its most ambitious foray into the services game yet. Some analysts say Cognos’ move has the makings of a proverbial double-edged sword.
Actuate 9 is a pivotal release for a company that continues to plot a best-of-breed course in a rapidly consolidating BI marketscape.
Last month, Celequest notched a deal with NEC to develop a compliance appliance for the financial services industry.
Some folks tout an intriguing, if esoteric, use case for EII: as a tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
Business intelligence practices—and the data management groups charged with overseeing them—are by no means independent of the enterprise IT main.
It might spell doom and gloom for vendors, but many BI pros think Microsoft’s BI push is good news for Microsoft-centric BI shops
A few weeks ago, Big Blue announced a new commodity data warehouse appliance based on 64-bit Opteron chips from AMD.
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
Oracle’s $6 billion acquisition of Siebel was good enough for second place—behind arch-rival SAP—in 2005’s torrid CRM market.
With more than one-third of the Fortune 100 tapping QuickBase for CRM, sales management and project management, Intuit thinks it has a winner on its hands.
A rising tide may lift all boats, but what happens when the tide recedes? This article examines the effect of Microsoft targeting the analytic applications market.
With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
The ground beneath information managers continues to shake, according to iWay Software’s John Senor. Is SOA an earthquake, or just a tremor?
Google last week took aim at one of Microsoft’s bread-and-butter market segments: its Excel spreadsheet cash cow.