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.
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.
The combined operational and production reporting suite remedies its reporting shortcomings, integrates with the company's BI suite at an architectural level.
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.
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?
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.
Version 7 features new Web services-oriented architecture and supports for LDAP and CWM
Acquisition of DataDistilleries makes sense, as products are highly complementary.
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With its acquisition of Brio complete, the company announces tentative product integration plans.
Most users with whom we spoke say they will stay with their installed product, and they can’t imagine using anything else. Some, however, indicate that if they’re not satisfied with Business Objects’ service and support, they may tap Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming SQL Server Reporting Services.
Suite's set of J2EE-based services supports customer-focused business processes, but the company's small user base may make it an attractive takeover target.
COO says company isn't worried about Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Doom and gloom? Not so, says TDWI's director of research Wayne Eckerson
Analysts say the company is trying to extend its reach beyond bread-and-butter analytic applications
Company makes good on its promised integration between Enterprise 6 and Peoplesoft's EPM suite—the only copy to offer such integration to date.
Netezza Performance Server doubles performance and increases capacity to 81TB