Business Intelligence


Hyperion Revamps Essbase, Releases New Analytics

Essbase gets its second coming-out party, and a new name, in nearly as many months

IBM's Retooled DB2 8.2 Boasts Better BI

Revamped DB2 boasts improved BI, query optimization, and data warehousing features

BI Tools: Where IT's Spending Its Budget

The overall BI tools market grew by 5 percent in 2003—and should post healthy growth through 2008 and beyond

SAS 9, Free Sybase Database Highlight Growth of Linux-based BI

SAS announces 64-bit Linux support; Sybase offers free Linux-ready version of its database

IBM Shores Up Its EII Offerings with Venetica Acquisition

Venetica’s technology will find its way into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator family of products

IBM/Informatica BI Bundle is Big IIDEA

Pre-packaged hardware, software, and services bundle is designed for the small- to mid-sized enterprise market.

Sybase Makes Waves

Database player notches strategic alliance with Applix, reseller agreement with Ascential



Cognos Shores Up its BPM Stack with Frango Acquisition

Cognos taps the services of a Swedish consolidation and financial reporting specialist to strengthen its BPM stack

Actuate’s Open Source Gambit

New open-source reporting tool tempts Java developers by giving them a way to incorporate reporting functionality into their applications at no cost

Q&A: ProClarity – Not Just a Reporting Tools Vendor

CEO isn’t worried about Microsoft’s ascendant credibility in the BI space

BI Budgets: Up, Up, and Away

Budget increases don’t necessarily translate into increased BI spending—not, at least, in the form of new projects or other initiatives

Oracle Revamps Sales-Side CRM Application

Oracle’s new CRM offering does little to address deficiencies in areas where the company trails its competitors

Microsoft’s Office: A BI Trojan Horse?

One analyst says Office has become a BI Trojan horse as Microsoft builds in more BI capabilities and more end users start to work with it.

ETL Competition Fierce for Mid-Market Products

Informatica, SAS, and Ascential control the high-end ETL market, but the mid-market is still largely up for grabs as the low-end market shrinks.

Oracle Takes Dead Aim at Supply Chain Competitors

Oracle’s retooled Supply Chain Management offering reflects its ambitions as a rising star in the SCM space

Windows XP SP 2, Microsoft CRM Conflicts Revealed

Users of Microsoft CRM who want to install the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 should expect to encounter a range of issues

BI-on-Linux Goes Mainstream

BI on Linux picked up even more traction last week as Actuate, Cognos, and Siebel announced product support for the open source operating system

ETL Comes Roaring Back

ETL market could post 10 percent annual growth through 2006

If SAP CRM Adopters Could Turn Back Time

Study says adopters would do it all over again

JDM API Promises “Data Mining for the Masses”

Proponents say the new standard includes algorithms for classification, regression, association, clustering, and attribute importance, and is designed for both novice and expert-level users.