Business Intelligence


Microsoft Unveils Reporting Services Add-On

Product offers a "one-stop shop" for creating, managing, and publishing ad hoc or production reports.

Behind the Ascential/PeopleSoft Agreement

Ascential can now claim to be the data integration vendor of choice with both SAP and PeopleSoft.

Siebel: Improving CRM OnDemand, One Acquisition at a Time

Actions show Siebel is putting its money where its mouth is in the hosted CRM market; CEO positions CRM OnDemand for small to mid-size enterprises.

Salesforce.com Plugs into Microsoft Office

Company announces a new plug-in for importing Salesforce.com data into Excel, Word, and Outlook.

Seven Strategies to Maximize Your Supply Chain Solution

Research firm Aberdeen Group says 2004 will be the year enterprises extend their supply chain solution, integrating it with other systems to reduce costs and improve performance.

Q&A: Getting Back to OLAP Basics

Almost one year ago to the day, Applix jettisoned its CRM assets to refocus on its TM1 OLAP engine, the original source of the company's growth. We look back on that move, and ahead to the company's interest in business performance management.

The Power of Business Intelligence: A Mortgage Banking Industry Perspective

Faced with systems that didn't adequately track, alert, and analyze data effectively, a BI solution united data from disparate systems to provide analysis capabilities that allowed a mortgage banker to better understand its customers, markets, and risk.



Q&A: Super-Charging OLAP Performance

HyperRoll says it can squeeze out the most performance from your existing investments in Oracle and Hyperion Solutions OLAP platforms without investing in more processing power or storage.

BI Leaders Drive Java Standards

A group of BI powerhouses have joined forces in two competing organizations with the same goal: to reduce the pain of building BI solutions with Java and Java-related technologies.

Business Objects Announces Integration Strategy, Product Road Map

Analysts say the combined company looks like a winner.

Microsoft CRM Gets Refresh

Version 1.2 is the company's first international release of its flagship CRM product

OLAP Wars: Hyperion Strikes Back

With a quartet of Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers and the 64-bit edition of its Essbase OLAP, Hyperion beats Oracle’s market-leading score in a key OLAP benchmark by 39 percent.

Q&A: Data Profiling for Quality Assurance

Costs associated with poor data quality aren't immediately obvious to many companies, and current approaches (such as data cleansing) to improving quality fall short. Data profiling may be the answer.

Q&A: ETL Dead and Done With?

Ascential Software says it has moved from an ETL provider to a data integration company. Will 2005 be the year of metadata?

Counteroffensive: Actuate Unveils Analytics Offering

Product is designed for users who need analytics functionality but don't want a power-user tool.

Business Objects Completes Crystal Acquisition

Company mum about the future

Microsoft Reveals OLAP and Data Mining Features in Next SQL Server

Microsoft will support XML/A and claims to have simplified the MultiDimensional eXpressions language used by Analysis Services to define calculations and security rules, among other changes.

Last Call for XQuery

Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.

Business Objects/Kalido Partnership Tackles Data Quality

Is the information you’re funneling to business decision-makers accurate and reliable?