Even an integration jack-of-all-trades can use a new service-enabled trick or two.
With the acquisition last week of data quality specialist Similarity Systems, Informatica bucked the expectations of several industry watchers.
Many analysts expected Informatica to acquire long-time partner Firstlogic, but the conventional logic was wrong, as Similarity Systems found out.
New offering should be a boon to combined Cognos and Domino shops.
Come this time next year, dashboard kludginess could very well be in the rear-view mirror.
These days, the notion of business intelligence (BI) seems very much in flux—perhaps because everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Not such an about face for the ROLAP specialist.
Like Lazarus, MicroStrategy has come back to tell us all, and looks to be a fixture in the BI marketscape of the future.
With the acquisition last week of a CPM player, Actuate is setting its sights on the CPM space, too.
Clementine has been used as a complement to CRM for half a decade now—but SPSS recently taught it a range of new tricks.
Are BI vendors on a collision course with the relational database giants? Industry watchers aren’t sure—but some say the uneasy détente is unlikely to last.
SAS, SPSS, and others say they’re making the Gandalf-the-White world of data mining more accessible— call it data mining for the masses.
Drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain—and the data quality beat keeps on keeping on. Case in point: Trillium Software last week announced a new version of its TS Discovery 5.0 data profiling tool. Analysts are calling it Trillium’s strongest profiling offering to date.
In a business-historical sense—more precisely, in a BI-historical sense—2005 was one for the history books.
It’s tempting to think of data quality as a soon-and-inevitably-to-be-commoditized technology segment. But think again.
When it debuts, Mendocino will more tightly couple Office with SAP. But don’t look for it before this summer.
The revamped i/Lytics is a solid release on the whole—but analysts say Innovative shouldn’t rest on its laurels.
Some say dashboards; others master data management; still others tout the maturation of integrated business intelligence suites. But beneath all that is a powerful undercurrent.
MySQL gives Business Objects a cost-effective alternative to IBM, Microsoft, and others. This isn’t an unalloyed good, however.
Business Objects extends open arms to MySQL; but ‘coopertition’ must be carefully played.