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Oracle Ties Middleware To Eclipse Workbench
by Charles Babcock - August 28, 2008
Developers can create Java applications using Fusion's WebLogic application server and other middleware services with Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse.

SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
by Charles Babcock - August 28, 2008
The new Tracker feature tells an employer which salespeople are making use of SugarCRM's capabilities, which features are most frequently used, and which are being ignored.

Seven Steps to Successful BI Competency Centers
by Doug Henschen - August 24, 2008
From setting a strategic vision and gaining C-level support to promoting successes and responding to emergencies, follow these seven suggestions for developing BICCs that boost business performance.

Amazon Cloud Adds Persistent Storage Feature
by J. Nicholas Hoover - August 21, 2008
Customers will likely use Amazon's Elastic Block Store for a variety of things, including as a cloud-based database holding up to 1 TB of data.

Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
by Paul McDougall - August 19, 2008
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.

IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
by Doug Henschen - August 18, 2008
Product Information Management and Information Server enhancements aimed at getting data right, matching names, standardizing terms and doing business around the globe.

Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
by Antone Gonsalves - August 18, 2008
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.

Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
by J. Nicholas Hoover - August 16, 2008
IT departments scramble to devise backup plans following service disruptions at Amazon, Citrix, and Google.

Amazon To Launch Persistent Storage For EC2
by Richard Martin - August 14, 2008
Elastic block storage allows you to attach persistent, unformatted, or "raw" data storage to "instances" of applications or services that reside on Amazon's EC2.

BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse
by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee - August 12, 2008
A medical center is using DataWatch's Web-based Monarch BI Server to analyze patient data from lab reports and other sources to improve care.

Google Apologizes For Gmail Outage
by Thomas Claburn - August 12, 2008
Millions of users were unable to access Google's Gmail service for several hours on Monday.

Of BI and Baseball: Two Reports Present Vendor and Product Standings
by Doug Henschen - August 11, 2008
It ain't over till it's over, and Forrester and BIScorecard reports say the business intelligence playoffs are a long way off.

How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
by Antone Gonsalves - August 7, 2008
Overly ambitious data-quality professionals get shot down because trusted data will not directly increase revenue, reduce costs or improve operational efficiencies, key criteria for getting funding approved, Forrester Research says.

SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
by Paul McDougall - August 7, 2008
Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008
by J. Nicholas Hoover - August 6, 2008
The upgraded database includes improved data compression, better scalability, and easier management of concurrent workloads.

IBM Joins Linux Distributors In Attacking Microsoft Windows, Office
by Antone Gonsalves - August 6, 2008
At LinuxWorld, IBM threw its support behind Microsoft-free PCs for business and introduced a package of open source software for Linux-based supercomputers.

BI Executive Bill Baker Leaves Microsoft
by Doug Henschen - August 5, 2008
Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server.

Actuate Upgrade Bridges Strategic and Operational Performance Management
by Doug Henschen - August 5, 2008
With an interface for every user type and eight extendable BIRT report layouts, Views 8 app is said to go from strategic scorecards down to operational exception reports.

AT&T Jumps Into Cloud Computing With Synaptic Hosting
by J. Nicholas Hoover - August 5, 2008
Synaptic Hosting will allow companies to host Windows Server or Linux client-server applications and Web apps in AT&T's data centers, rather than in their own data centers.

SAS Acquires SaaS-Based Specialist in Dynamic Price Optimization
by Doug Henschen - August 4, 2008
Deal nets online profit optimization platform. New global practice will branch out from hotels to events, online advertising and other potential markets.

Ready Or Not, Here Comes SaaS
by Antone Gonsalves - August 4, 2008
Saugatuck Technology says SaaS is spreading throughout the enterprise, "whether the vendors -- or their offerings -- are ready to support and deliver what users want."

Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality
by Ralph Kimball - August 1, 2008
Language, culture, and country-by-country compliance and privacy requirements are just a few of the tough data quality problems global organizations must solve. Start by addressing data accuracy at the source and adopting an MDM strategy, then follow these six other best-practice approaches.

IBM Brings Cloud Computing To Earth With Massive New Data Centers
by Richard Martin - August 1, 2008
Big Blue plans to build a data center in North Carolina and open a "cloud computing center" in Tokyo at a cost of nearly $400 million.

HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Government, Academia In Cloud Computing Research
by Antone Gonsalves - July 29, 2008
Each of the founding members will host a cloud-computing infrastructure largely based on HP computers and Intel processors in six data centers.

Competitors React to the Microsoft-DatAllegro Deal
by Doug Henschen - July 28, 2008
Oracle stays quiet while Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata say data scalability alone won't satisfy customers.

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