Business Intelligence


Unleashing Marketing Success with Data Infrastructure Performance

Data infrastructure can hamstring your marketing success

Revamped Oracle Database Packs BI Enhancements

XQuery support, .NET support among BI-friendly features

Cautious Optimism on SQL Server 2005

Changes on tap in SQL Server 2005 worry some BI and DM pros

Unisys and Hyperion Partner for BI

Companies push a combined BI and financial-reporting solution based on the Unisys hardware and the Hyperion software

Microsoft Previews Next-Gen CRM Release

Microsoft says CRM 3.0 will help drive end user adoption and reduce TCO

Salesforce.com Refreshes CRM Solution Stack

Riding high on a slew of prominent enterprise deployments, Salesforce.com hopes Summer ’05 will add to its momentum

Revamped HyperRoll Accelerates OLAP, Relational Performance

Company announces a supercharged release of its eponymous OLAP and relational database acceleration technology



Cognos Offers Blueprints for BI and Scorecarding Success

New blueprints are designed to support quasi-turnkey BI and scorecarding

Q&A: Ignore Holistic Performance Management At Your Own Peril

Cognos announces an ambitious partner program and gives customers a glimpse of its forthcoming Cognos 8 BI suite, now in beta

Executive Decision-Makers Increasingly Hip to BI

Executives are increasingly hip to the importance of business intelligence as an aid to decision-making

IBM’s Data Integration Strategy Coming Into Focus

IBM tries to keep current Ascential customers happy while satisfying the needs of new adopters attracted by the promise of its all-in-one data integration move

Q&A: Crystal Reports As Autonomous As Ever

Business Objects’ James Thomas dismisses Microsoft’s Reporting Services as just another in a line of Crystal “clones”

Ipedo Offers a New Take on EII

If EII is indeed on the cusp of going mainstream, technology pure-play Ipedo is a name you might want to remember

CSI Prescribes an Rx for Data Quality Woes

CSI plans to leverage its professional services expertise to address data quality shortcomings

Business Objects Pushes Real-time Decision-making

Business Objects bills XI Built for Operational BI as a version of its BI suite that’s optimized for operational decision-making

BIRT: Users Optimistic about Emerging Reporting Engine

Based on the experiences of several users, BIRT looks like a good start—which should only get better

Oracle Nabs In-Memory Specialist TimesTen

Technology is seen as a potential boon to Oracle’s Fusion Middleware initiative

DataMirror Unveils Dynamic ODS Offering

With Dynamic ODS, DataMirror hopes to break out from its association with AS/400 in the minds of customers

Eclipse Foundation Releases BI Reporting Tool for Java

BIRT is enabled in part by technology expertise from reporting stalwart Actuate, which released a branded version of the tool

Traverse metaController: When ETL Is Overkill

Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”