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.
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.
Product is designed for users who need analytics functionality but don't want a power-user tool.
Ascential Software says it has moved from an ETL provider to a data integration company. Will 2005 be the year of metadata?
Company mum about the future
Is the information you’re funneling to business decision-makers accurate and reliable?
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.
Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.
CEO says hosted CRM complements on-premise offering for small-to-medium enterprises, which tend to have more casual users.
Slowly but surely Microsoft is putting together a robust BI platform that will serve many companies exceedingly well.
Informatica isn't worried that Microsoft and Oracle are enhancing the ETL features of their databases. It positions itself as the Switzerland of data integration vendors.
Company is enhancing Yukon DTS’s support for data mining, OLAP, and data warehousing.
The business community has realized that metadata is not only crucial for the management of IT applications, but is also necessary for effective use by business end users.
The combined operational and production reporting suite remedies its reporting shortcomings, integrates with the company's BI suite at an architectural level.
Upgrade is the third this year, and the second upgrade of the salesforce.com service in the last six months. Does the company's in-house development of new features make sense?
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It's been over two years since the last revision, and analysts say the new version simply makes the product competitive. However, Unicode support could be critical to expand SAP's user base.
Acquisition of DataDistilleries makes sense, as products are highly complementary.
Version 7 features new Web services-oriented architecture and supports for LDAP and CWM