Business Intelligence


Hyperion Hits the Ground Running

Hyperion will resell several Brio products before its acquisition is complete

Data Quality Tools: Clearing Up Customer Confusion

On the surface, most data quality vendors appear to be marketing similar products. META Group analyst Doug Laney digs deeper to find substantial differences.

BI Vendor Consolidation: A Necessary Evil

Analysts warn that this summer's wave of consolidation is just the beginning

PeopleSoft: New Releases Prove Company Staying Focused

Enhancements and new products for PeopleSoft's CRM suite include regulatory compliance with the national Do Not Call list, synchronization with Notes and Outlook, and integration with SAP and Oracle back-office applications.

Cognos Ships Revamped Scorecarding Product

Metrics Manager version 2 improves flexibility, provides more relevant information to users

Intuit Joins CRM Fray

Company best-known for Quicken and TurboTax expected to announce a shrink-wrapped customer relationship management application.

SAS and eSecurity Deliver Security Analytics

New joint solution collects, correlates and normalizes data from nearly 200 different security sources, allowing customers to perform historical trending and analysis to detect attack signatures, potential incursions, and other anomalies.



Grids: Large BI Data Sets, Low Price

Grids offer an inexpensive alternative for processing terabytes of BI data

The Most Important Technology Vendor You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

SSA's acquisition of EXE Technologies will enhance its supply chain management and execution functionality, officials say

SuperGlue: A Sticky Solution for Meta Data Management

Informatica is betting product will form tight bond with customers

Why So Many BI Initiatives Fail

Balanced scorecards may help align what BI projects deliver with the strategic and operational information business users really want.

BI Industry Consolidation—You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

Meta Group advises BI customers to pick one of today’s heavyweights and use its stack as a base to begin reducing BI tool proliferation

Coming Soon: Better Real-Time Information Delivery

Sybase Real-Time Services is based on the open Java Messaging Service standard, setting it apart from solutions that rely on proprietary adapters.

Ascential: The New Data Integration Pure Play

Company's most recent acquisition underscores the somewhat divergent path that the company has taken from its competitors

SAS Skips BI Acquisition Feeding Frenzy

IT will continue to struggle to manage a wide portfolio of vendors, executive says

Enterprise Information Integration Tools Worth Deploying Despite Immaturity

Business benefit of EII increases exponentially with successive integration of each related application and database, analyst says

Actuate’s Nimble Acquisition

Action adds credibility to company's position in the Enterprise Information Integration market

IBM Strengthens Its Content Management Strategy

Company will use Aptrix technologies in its content development component for Lotus Workplace

Crystal Users Cautious and Guarded

Key to satisfaction: product support

BI Consolidation Continues as Hyperion Acquires Brio

Analysts give move favorable reviews