Business Intelligence


Informatica and IBM Partner for ETL

If IBM already has a partnership with Ascential Software Corp, why has it just inked an agreement with Informatica?

Cognos Updates ReportNet

New charting capabilities and improved performance are among the changes in version 1.1.

Trends: Companies Pushing BI Data to More Workers

Companies are spending more to support line-of-business workers with data than on projects for strategic decision makers (read, executives). Such actions are intended to help organizations streamline costs and save money.

Vendors Heed Growing Demand for Linux-Based BI Solutions

Enterprises look to Linux to cut costs, with financial services leading the charge, but will SCO's latest Linux lawsuits stymie demand?

Siebel's

A repackaged CRM Midmarket Edition, the product's lower price should appear to small and mid-sized companies. Siebel is working with third parties to provide fixed-price integration and implementation services.

Hosted CRM’s Killer App

Web-necessary CRM applications can enable new business processes that aren’t possible with on-premises CRM solutions.

Q&A with SAS: The State of the BI Industry

Look for continuing consolidation (including a possible acquisition by SAS). The President and CEO of SAS also sheds light on packaged analytic applications, the convergence of production and analytic reporting tools, and the company's next version of its BI suite.



Salesforce.com Builds a Bridge to WebSphere

With sforce Toolkit for WebSphere, companies can tap WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build CRM solutions that integrate customer and sales information with their own applications.

Virtual Data Warehouses: Beware Traditional DW Issues

Data federating technologies—ETL, EII, and EAI—are the Next Big Thing, reports META Group, especially where unstructured content is concerned, but the virtual data warehouse’s biggest selling point—direct access to "fresher" source data—could be overblown.

Teradata: Service Evaluates Alignment of BI Infrastructure with Business Goals

Data Warehouse Maturity Assessment service helps enterprises maximize DW and BI investments.

Hyperion Updates Its BI Stack

Company revamps Essbase OLAP server and updates Hyperion Performance Suite

PeopleSoft and Ascential: What's In It for Users

From a no-cost conversion program to new versions, the companies explain the user benefits.

DataFlux and NEON Partner for Mainframe Data Quality

NEON’s Shadow technology gives DataFlux customers native access to information residing in mainframe VSAM, DB2 and IMS data stores

Q&A: The Key to Doing BPM Right

The CEO of a business performance management consultancy says projects need a broker between IT and the business sponsor.

Cognos Revamps Enterprise Planning Tool

Product improves insight into corporate performance management by incorporating financial and operational planning processes into BI and scorecarding.

Microsoft Reaffirms Commitment to Crystal Reports

Release of the company's Reporting Services add-on for SQL Server won't stop distribution of the limited-use version of Crystal Reports with Visual Studio. Meanwhile, Business Objects introduces a lower-priced version of Crystal Enterprise for small-to-midsize companies.

Oracle Touts a Hub for Enterprise Information Integration

Customer Data Hub serves as a single repository for data consolidation and cleansing.

Teradata Cozies Up to SAP

Partnership highlights Teradata’s unique analytic strengths

Users Cheer Microsoft’s New Reporting Services

Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.

BI Marketplace: What’s in Store for ‘04

Niche specialists will find themselves competing against stronger companies that have acquired their struggling competitors. Organizations need to make contingency plans.