Business Intelligence


Making Hosted CRM a Force to Be Reckoned With

Salesforce.com courts enterprise developers with sforce initiative

Briefs: Insightful Miner adds Windows, Solaris support, SAS updates Value Chain Analytics

Data mining tool adds Windows, Solaris support, new visualization components

Companies Dissatisfied with SCM

Survey reports issues unsolved despite large investments; executives complain solutions don't provide effective forecasts

Case in Point: Predictive Web Analytics and ROI

The Financial Times uses Web analytics tool to better understand its customers

Briefs: News from Brio, Sarbanes-Oxley solutions from Oracle, Plumtree, and HandySoft

Brio revamps BI suite, Oracle has Sarbanes-Oxley under control, Plumtree and HandySoft partnership offers Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator

In Brief: Oracle Sales suite, WebCenter 5.0

Oracle Sales usability, proposal-generation enhancements; WebCenter 5.0 manages cross-channel customer interactions with real-time chat and collaboration

Revisiting ROI: Is Positive Payback Achieved?

Analysts challenge enterprises to look for, and properly measure, BI project benefits up front and after implementation



Q&A: Is Real Time Right for You?

The pain of integrating systems in real time often outweighs business needs

XQuery Standard Inches Closer to Reality

ERP vendor uses XQuery to expose customer data

CRM Adopters Find Success

Research firm profiles 10 CRM adopters to find what makes for CRM success

News in Brief

Databeacon Collaborative Edition; Edwards enhances SCM suite

News in Brief

Hyperion and Teradata to integrate products; Pivotal's most significant CRM update

Q&A: Tips and Traps of Large Data Warehouse Design

Think of a data warehouse as a project, not a program

Turnkey Data Mining from SAS/Unisys Partnership

New analytics package bundles software, hardware, and consulting

Business Objects Touts End-to-End BI

Enterprise 6 suite may be company’s most important release to date

News in Brief

Microsoft's 64-bit SQL Server; new integrated suite from Plumtree

BI: Safe Harbor for IT Pros?

Worrying about what happens when current project ends

Oracle’s OLAP Triumph Questioned

Using competitor's four-year-old version makes for "meaningless comparison", analyst says

News in Brief

Baan ERP for sale again; document management joint offering

Q&A: Portal and Portlet Power

As portals mature, business users should expect more freedom