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Gallup Extends BI to the World of Research
by Doug Henschen - December 3, 2008
Famous polling firm taps Oracle BI Enterprise Edition for internal reporting and customer self-service access to research results.
Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
by Michael Singer - December 1, 2008
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months.
Nine Choices on the Road to BI Solution Centers
by Boris Evelson and James Kobielus, Forrester Research - December 1, 2008
Forrester Research says BI Solution Centers offer a business-governed, solutions-focused edge over BI competency centers. Here are nine key considerations you'll face when building your BISC.
Master Data Management Adoption Going Strong
by Antone Gonsalves - November 25, 2008
Worldwide revenue from master data management software is expected to reach $1.3 billion this year and more than double by 2012.
Oracle Site Hub Brings Order to Location Intelligence
by Doug Henschen - November 24, 2008
Master Data Management product consolidates and cleanses site-specific information for retailers, government agencies, utilities and more.
Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy
by Doug Henschen - November 22, 2008
Performance management guru David Norton tackles the challenge of aligning day-to-day decisions with big-picture strategy.
Performance Management: Link Operational Decisions to Strategy
by Doug Henschen - November 22, 2008
Go beyond BI to give decisions makers at all levels the data they need to make the right business decisions.
Making the Business Case for Mashups
by Doug Henschen - November 19, 2008
Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream.
Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
by Seth Grimes - November 16, 2008
With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.
Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
by Cindi Howson - November 10, 2008
Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations.
Actuate Upgrades Reporting Development Tools For Eclipse BIRT
by Antone Gonsalves - November 10, 2008
Actuate 10 makes it possible to present structured data as rich Internet applications within the Eclipse Foundation's business intelligence and reporting tools.
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
by Doug Henschen - November 3, 2008
Comparing past election results to Census data, Birst business intelligence environment looks inside state voting patterns.
BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future
by Seth Grimes - November 2, 2008
Hans Peter Luhn envisioned a "business intelligence system" way back in 1958, but only recently has BI begun to serve up knowledge instead of numbers.
Tibco Unveils 'Network Analytics' For Spotfire
by Antone Gonsalves - October 30, 2008
The add-on, which is sold separately, offers a whole new layer of interactive visual analysis on the business activity monitoring suite.
Kimball University: Maintaining Dimension Hierarchies
by Joy Mundy - October 27, 2008
Dimension hierarchies and pre-computed aggregations can make or break your data warehouse. Here's how to design, load and maintain true hierarchies while working around bad data sources and optimizing for usability and performance.
IBM Describes New Data Lifecycle Management Tools
by Charles Babcock - October 27, 2008
IBM plans to unveil additions to its Optim data management portfolio at its Information On Demand user group in Las Vegas this week.
Coral8 Bows 'Continuous Intelligence' Platform
by Doug Henschen - October 21, 2008
Applying real-time analysis to streaming and historical data, complex event processing vendor says it can sense changing conditions and trigger smart, proactive decisions across multiple departments.
Gartner Ranks Data Integration Vendors
by Antone Gonsalves - October 20, 2008
Informatica, IBM and Business Objects are listed as leaders, but vendors with capabilities that could disrupt the market include SAS, Pervasive Software, iWay Software, Sun Microsystems and Tibco Software.
Five Steps to Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance
by David Stodder - October 20, 2008
The pressure is on business intelligence and data warehousing professionals to handle ever-higher data volumes and ever-more-complex queries while reducing decision latency. Follow this five-step approach to identify key business drivers, optimize system performance, guide new technology deployments, improve responsiveness, and invest for future performance demands.
Vertica Upgrades Pave Way for 'Teramarts'
by Doug Henschen - October 15, 2008
New features aimed at co-existence with conventional data warehouses, better support for SQL queries, joins and dialects.
Teradata Bows Petabyte-Scale Appliance, Faster Database
by Doug Henschen - October 13, 2008
Extreme Data Appliance 1550 meets super-high-scale analysis, compliance and archival demands. Teradata 13 database virtualizes storage, speeds loading and boosts performance.
Business Objects Upgrade Looks Beyond SAP
by Doug Henschen - October 10, 2008
Business Objects XI 3.1 upgrade adds native integration to Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel apps and myriad third-party data sources.
PostgreSQL To Get Boost From Telecom Giant
by Charles Babcock - October 8, 2008
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and EnterpriseDB will co-develop a feature of modern database management systems -- synchronous replication -- for the open source database.
Microsoft Will Bow In-Memory Analysis, Appliance-Ready Database in 2010
by Doug Henschen - October 6, 2008
Microsoft SQL Server upgrades take center stage at this week's Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008. 'People-Ready' enhancements promise bigger warehouses and fast, user-friendly slice-and-dice capabilities.
After Leading on Platform, Cognos Catches Up On Details
by Doug Henschen - October 2, 2008
IBM Cognos 8.4 upgrades include Flash-based dashboards, improved BI search, location-aware mobile delivery and new data lineage capabilities. Viewpoint interface lets business users manage hierarchies and dimensions.
 

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