Business Intelligence


Informatica Retreats from Analytic Applications Market

Company will no longer sell analytic applications directly to customers; move signals a return to company's roots

Business Objects Nabs Crystal Decisions in Surprise Move

Company says it's seizing the opportunity to take a leadership position in the BI market

Marrying Data Visualization with BI

Information Builders VP says visualization is a technology that allows you to figure out what you want to ask.

Scalable Data Warehouses: Architects Must Improvise

Real-time requirements and faster performance are driving data warehousing changes. Inmon and Kimball provided a solid foundation, but large data warehouses may lead data architects into uncharged territory.

Q&A: Event-Driven Analytics

Informatica's co-founder and ex-president calls business activity monitoring a global positioning system for business health

Most Pervasive BI Tool Isn't What You Think

Vendors enhance support for Microsoft Excel as a BI front-end tool in their latest products

Q&A: Scaling Reports Across the Enterprise

Cognos says ReportNet can support hundreds of thousands of users



CRM: Beg, Borrow, or Lease

Non-traditional acquisition methods will increasingly drive CRM adoption

Briefs: Business Objects, SAS, Pervasive

BusinessObjects delivers on enterprise performance management; SAS joins Liberty Alliance Project; full-text sub-second searches of Pervasive.SQL databases

Making Real-Time Business Decisions with BAM

Business activity monitoring pure-play Celequest says that it goes where conventional BI vendors fear to tread—into the heart of real-time BAM.

Briefs: Hummingbird updates suite, ClarifyCRM more efficient

Hummingbird Enterprise adds full query, analysis, and reporting capabilities; ClarifyCRM update designed for high-volume call centers

Microsoft Revamps SQL Analytic Development Toolkit

Company updates popular tool for creating custom analytic applications for SQL Server

Briefs: NetLedger/HP initiative for business operations, Captiva ForeWare and InputAccel

HP/NetLedger online solution for small business management; Captiva updates its flagship input management software

ETL: Tools Get Closer to Real Time

New tools emphasize drive for near-real-time enterprise data access, include data quality components

Sybase Revamps Large Data Warehouse Solution

IQ designed to be economical, scalable for terabytes of storage

IBM, Oracle Tout XQuery API

Move signals that Xquery standard could be finalized by year's end

Briefs: DataFlux, Connotate

DataFlux enhances data management suite; Connotate revamps content management tool

Analysis: A Tale of Two BI Strategies

IBM and Oracle approach BI from two different perspectives

Security Basics: Database Access Controls

How privileges, roles, views, and row-level security are used to protect your data

Oracle Strikes Back

Company's play for PeopleSoft has broader BI ramifications