The appliances market is maturing, and as more companies explore this relatively new tool, the storage size of appliance solutions keeps growing.
There’s a thriving market for J2EE-centric reporting tools—a surprising number of which are commercial propositions.
The week that was in business intelligence.
Thanks to five years and more of gestation, many of the business intelligence (BI) facilities Microsoft ships with SQL Server 2005 bear only a facile resemblance to their predecessors. We spoke with SQL pros about the good, the bad, and the lovely qualities of Redmond’s next-gen BI stack.
Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?
Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.
This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.
Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.
It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.
Data quality specialist sees CDI as an evolutionary extension of bread-and-butter data management.
Some SQL Server shops already expect to replace BI pure play tools with SQL Server’s native BI functionality.
If the all-in-one BI platform is the thing, why aren’t best-of-breed vendors quaking in their Aeron chairs? Do they know something you don’t?
Depending on how you look at it, Business Objects either threw down a gauntlet or manufactured a heck of a controversy. You decide which.
It was a busy fortnight for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, shipped new releases of Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g, and announced two new acquisitions, to boot.
When the Group Chief Architect for ING talks, TDWI attendees listen.
BI software market should amount to $2.5 billion this year—and reach $3 billion by 2009.
From the moment it said “I do” to last year’s buyout proposal by Pitney Bowes, Firstlogic’s cards were on the table.
BIRT, Mondrian, and Pentaho headline the list of scrappy open source BI newcomers.
With 64-bit hardware increasingly pervasive and 64-bit operating systems priced to move, too, it’s only a matter of time, isn’t it?
It shouldn't surprise anyone that software vendors overwhelmingly have self-serving takes on the state of BI today.