Retooled SAS 9 suite includes integrated OLAP capabilities and a substantially retooled Web Report Studio
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Project Avalanche provides a single workspace for operational reporting and ad hoc query and analysis
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Firstlogic’s new data quality services offering promises to help companies quickly get up to speed on the technology
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Stephen Brobst says Teradata’s vision of “extreme data warehousing” is about a lot more than just an attention-grabbing marketing term
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Because of the range of BI partners impacted, IBM's Ascential buyout could prove to be the most disruptive BI acquisition to date.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Monarch 8 lets users extract information directly from PDF files for analysis, or export data from PDF files to spreadsheets or databases
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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 incorporates adapters into more than 200 different structured and unstructured data sources
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company’s new offering incorporates ILM practices to bring ballooning data warehouse volumes under control
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Panorama Software says it won’t become just another notch in Microsoft’s mergers-and-acquisitions bedpost
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Many customers will welcome a tight coupling between Ascential and IBM technologies
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As a small, relatively unknown company, Attensity has its work cut out for it in a highly competitive text-mining landscape
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ETL competitors view IBM’s acquisition of Ascential as a game-changing opportunity
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In spite of its “standalone” description, Business Intelligence 10g should be considered an Oracle-only play
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Your data warehouse may very well be a speed demon—but to what extent does its high performance correlate with exceptional business value?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    DATAllegro joins Netezza in the data-warehousing appliance market 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New version of PowerCenter ETL tool runs natively on zSeries mainframes
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company plans to be more aggressive in getting its ease-of-use message to users
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Improved search capabilities will make finding corporate information a lot like searching for information on the Web