Business Intelligence


Data Warehouse Appliances: Cost-Effective and Growing

The appliances market is maturing, and as more companies explore this relatively new tool, the storage size of appliance solutions keeps growing.

Business Intelligence Trends: A J2EE Cottage Industry

There’s a thriving market for J2EE-centric reporting tools—a surprising number of which are commercial propositions.

As the BI Industry Churns

The week that was in business intelligence.

SQL Server 2005: The Good, the Bad, and the Lovely

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.

BIRTh of a Notion

Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?

Oracle Searches for Extra-Relational Data

Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.

Adios, Itanium: Applix Pushes 64-bit BI for the Rest of Us

This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.



Powers That Be—Hyperion and Teradata Team up for Retail Analytics

Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.

Dashboard-Driven Analysis, ROLAP-Style

It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.

DataFlux Puts a Data Quality-Centric Spin on Customer Data Integration

Data quality specialist sees CDI as an evolutionary extension of bread-and-butter data management.

SQL Server 2005 Taking the Fight to the Business Intelligence Pure Plays

Some SQL Server shops already expect to replace BI pure play tools with SQL Server’s native BI functionality.

Best of Breed: Have Reports of Its Death Been Greatly Exaggerated?

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?

Business Objects Goes Deep; Its Competitors Go Wide

Depending on how you look at it, Business Objects either threw down a gauntlet or manufactured a heck of a controversy. You decide which.

Oracle’s Action-Packed Fortnight

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.

Gartner Says Rip Roaring Business Intelligence Growth Just Ahead

BI software market should amount to $2.5 billion this year—and reach $3 billion by 2009.

Firstlogic Cashes In

From the moment it said “I do” to last year’s buyout proposal by Pitney Bowes, Firstlogic’s cards were on the table.

The Open Source Business Intelligence Tools Are Coming!

BIRT, Mondrian, and Pentaho headline the list of scrappy open source BI newcomers.

Can Business Intelligence Take 64-bit Computing Mainstream?

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?

What Is Business Intelligence? Vendors Voice Their Views

It shouldn't surprise anyone that software vendors overwhelmingly have self-serving takes on the state of BI today.