Salesforce.com courts enterprise developers with sforce initiative
Data mining tool adds Windows, Solaris support, new visualization components
Survey reports issues unsolved despite large investments; executives complain solutions don't provide effective forecasts
The Financial Times uses Web analytics tool to better understand its customers
Brio revamps BI suite, Oracle has Sarbanes-Oxley under control, Plumtree and HandySoft partnership offers Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator
Oracle Sales usability, proposal-generation enhancements; WebCenter 5.0 manages cross-channel customer interactions with real-time chat and collaboration
Analysts challenge enterprises to look for, and properly measure, BI project benefits up front and after implementation
The pain of integrating systems in real time often outweighs business needs
ERP vendor uses XQuery to expose customer data
Research firm profiles 10 CRM adopters to find what makes for CRM success
Databeacon Collaborative Edition; Edwards enhances SCM suite
Hyperion and Teradata to integrate products; Pivotal's most significant CRM update
Think of a data warehouse as a project, not a program
New analytics package bundles software, hardware, and consulting
Enterprise 6 suite may be company’s most important release to date
Microsoft's 64-bit SQL Server; new integrated suite from Plumtree
Worrying about what happens when current project ends
Using competitor's four-year-old version makes for "meaningless comparison", analyst says
Baan ERP for sale again; document management joint offering
As portals mature, business users should expect more freedom