It’s a big win for Informatica and an important milestone in the SaaS-ification of its data integration stack.
Pure players Spotfire and Tableau have quite a head start on what Microsoft and others currently bring to the table visualization-wise.
Oracle positions OWB R2 as a full-blown competitor to enterprise ETL solutions from IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute.
Can companies use built-in ERP capabilities to better automate their IT controls?
Mainframe change management in an age of compliance is a very different beast
Rapid growth pushes software firm to a more mature development process
The challenge: securing an infrastructure you don’t control
Addressing the difficulties of both horizontal and vertical scalability has seen the rise of clustering techniques—but the question is where the brains for the cluster should reside.
IT must shift from developing backup strategies to developing reliable, easy-to-use recovery practices to ensure that data, applications, and operating systems can be recovered in a consistent format.
Setting a storage usage policy can be tricky
If there’s an economic recovery afoot, IT budgets haven’t benefited
A 2006 report from Boston-based market researcher Aberdeen Group shows 90 percent of survey respondents say their companies are adopting service-oriented architectures.
Business Objects hopes to do for data visualization what the former Crystal Decisions once did for reporting: make it ubiquitous.