Business Intelligence


Q&A: Siebel Shows It's Serious about CRM on Demand

When it comes to hosted CRM, Siebel puts its money where its mouth is

Pitney Bowes Changes the Rules of the Data Quality Game

Company threatens to transform the data quality space, for large and small vendors alike, with its acquisition of Group 1.

Business Objects Rounds Out Analytics Suite

New financial analytics module addresses compliance management

Cognos Updates OLAP PowerPlay

Hyperion and Microsoft aren’t the only OLAP vendors worth watching

Microsoft Delivers New BI Accelerators

Is Microsoft testing the waters as an analytics applications vendor?

IBM's Information Integrator Update Packs 100 New Features

“Masala” to offer search and data-access enhancements, and brings the product closer to being able to manage both structured and unstructured data

Case Study: A Single Version of the Financial Truth

For BJ’s Wholesale, Hyperion’s Essbase OLAP server makes for happier—and more productive—end users



Q&A: Actuate—A View From the Top

Actuate's CEO discusses consolidation, integration, and cooperation, and his company's recent successes in the BI marketplace

Trillium First to Offer Data Quality Solution for Oracle’s Customer Data Hubs

Address validation for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.9 now possible, but only on Windows and Unix platforms for now

Reinventing the Call Center

In the era of Do Not Call, predictive analytics can turn inbound calls—even complaints—into potential sales

Business Objects Reaches Out to Office

Meanwhile, Microsoft builds bridges between Office and BI application vendors

PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM Gets Overhaul

Analytics functionality permeates PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 8.9 release

HyperRoll Now Enhances Relational Data Warehouse Performance

The latest release of HyperRoll also includes algorithms to boost OLAP performance

SAP and Research in Motion Partner for Mobile CRM

BlackBerry-toting sales professionals will soon be able to view and update MySAP CRM data

Applix Overhauls TM1

Updated OLAP engine outfitted with new enterprise planning, reporting features

Firstlogic Heeds Web Services Call

New development tool accelerates integration efforts

Beyond ETL: Ascential, Informatica Tout Data Integration Strategies

Companies reposition themselves as full-fledged data integration specialists

SAS, SPSS Deliver Revamped Marketing Tools

Vendors announce new tools for marketing automation, predictive marketing

Microsoft Adds ActiveViews to Free SQL Reporting Services Add-On

Microsoft may be setting its sights on business users with very little, if any, development expertise

Standard for Sharing Data Mining Models Falls Short

Predictive Model Markup Language gives applications a way to define statistical and data mining models and to share them with other PMML-compliant apps