Business Intelligence


News in Brief

Real-Time Reporting Suite; Revamped Warehouse Builder

Oracle’s BI Metamorphosis

Company’s end-to-end BI strategy heavily emphasizes its 9i database

Analyst Viewpoint: Actuate 7

Moving beyond reports

News in Brief

GoldenGate 7; MS Business Portal

BI Dashboards Drive Standardization

Sharing goals, objectives, and Six Sigma stats

ETL Vendor Informatica Tackles BI

PowerAnalyzer catapults company into difficult BI market

Product News in Brief

News from SAP, SPSS, Recommind, and Plumtree



Deep Discounts Drive CRM Software Glut

Biggest mistake: companies underestimate TCO impact of unused license maintenance

XQuery—Could Finalized Standard Emerge This Year?

A proposed standard for querying structured and un-structured data has been a long time coming

Enterprise Information Integration Enters the Spotlight

IBM, Oracle, BEA, and others elbow into burgeoning EII market, but no single vendor offers complete EII solution

Survey Says: CRM Adopters Somewhat Satisfied

Resistance to process change, not inadequate funding, is largest obstacle in CRM implementations

Product News in Brief

Cognos updates Series 7, data quality system DataFuse gets usability release, Advizor ships updated data visualization software, and Decision Point releases a new financial reporting compliance tool

Top Ten Web Application Weak Spots - test doc

Avoid these weak spots in your Web applications.

Security Battle Lines for 2003 - Test doc

This year, as security incidents meet last year's level, e-mail administrators will finally fight back against spam and companies will kiss their first-generation intrusion detection systems (IDS) goodbye. Those are just a few of the trends in Boston-based analyst firm Aberdeen Group's security predictions for 2003.

Zip It Shut: New Enterprise-level Encryption Tools - Test doc

IT managers craving a simple way to trade compressed and encrypted files usable on almost any platform, take note. PKWare Inc. recently announced a range of compression products that can trade “zipped” files with 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)—an encryption algorithm—across a range of operating systems, including Windows, Unix, MVS and AS/400.

Akamai Pushes the InfoEdge

Akamai uses massive parallelism to reach end users globally.

Sprint Mines Marketing Gold

Sprint's new data mining system yields rich stores of customer information.

Managing Know-how

Managing and mining corporate information is a huge challenge...but there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Legato Buys OTG Software

Storage vendors join together

When Should You Clean Warehoused Data?

Scrubbing your data too soon or too late is a waste of effort—plan carefully to make your quality checks at the right time.