Business Intelligence


SAS Showcases Revamped BI Suite

Retooled SAS 9 suite includes integrated OLAP capabilities and a substantially retooled Web Report Studio

Hyperion Touts Next-Gen BI Platform Release

Project Avalanche provides a single workspace for operational reporting and ad hoc query and analysis

Service Targets Data Quality Pitfalls

Firstlogic’s new data quality services offering promises to help companies quickly get up to speed on the technology

Q&A: Managing Exploding Data Volumes

Stephen Brobst says Teradata’s vision of “extreme data warehousing” is about a lot more than just an attention-grabbing marketing term

Examining the Aftershocks of IBM's Ascential Acquisition

Because of the range of BI partners impacted, IBM's Ascential buyout could prove to be the most disruptive BI acquisition to date.

Datawatch Updates Heterogeneous Data Access Tool

Monarch 8 lets users extract information directly from PDF files for analysis, or export data from PDF files to spreadsheets or databases

Informatica's Move in a Changing Marketplace

With IBM/Ascential, Informatica/Composite, and other announcements taking center stage recently, it's clearly been a disruptive spring in the data integration market



WebFOCUS 7 Kicks Up Enterprise Business Intelligence

WebFOCUS 7 incorporates adapters into more than 200 different structured and unstructured data sources

SAND Touts Information Lifecycle Management for Analytics

Company’s new offering incorporates ILM practices to bring ballooning data warehouse volumes under control

Q&A: Building a Top-Notch BI Platform on SQL Server

Panorama Software says it won’t become just another notch in Microsoft’s mergers-and-acquisitions bedpost

Analysis: Ascential and IBM—Minimal Overlap, Lots of Promise

Many customers will welcome a tight coupling between Ascential and IBM technologies

Attensity Introduces Desktop Solution for Unstructured Content Management

As a small, relatively unknown company, Attensity has its work cut out for it in a highly competitive text-mining landscape

ETL Competitors Regroup, Plan Offensives

ETL competitors view IBM’s acquisition of Ascential as a game-changing opportunity

With Ascential Acquisition, IBM Becomes Data Integration Powerhouse

IBM has, or will soon have, the data integration goods, but can it convince customers it isn’t just a DB2- or WebSphere-centric play?

Oracle Releases BI Bundle for 10g

In spite of its “standalone” description, Business Intelligence 10g should be considered an Oracle-only play

Improving DW Performance: Survey Finds Companies Are Flying Blind

Your data warehouse may very well be a speed demon—but to what extent does its high performance correlate with exceptional business value?

Data Warehousing Appliances: The Next High-End Trend

DATAllegro joins Netezza in the data-warehousing appliance market

Informatica's PowerCenter Finally Reaches the Mainframe

New version of PowerCenter ETL tool runs natively on zSeries mainframes

SAS Reduces Complexity, Improves Usability of ETL Tool

Company plans to be more aggressive in getting its ease-of-use message to users

Supercharged Search Coming in Updated IBM EII Tool

Improved search capabilities will make finding corporate information a lot like searching for information on the Web