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All Articles By Cindi Howson The Road To Pervasive BI If you're not using business intelligence tools throughout your workforce, it's time to start--or get left behind in your competitors' dust How Buying Changes in the New BI Landscape This year's business intelligence mega deals have altered the complexion of strategic and tactical decisions. Successful practitioners will be unfazed by shifting vendor ownership, but dissatisfied customers are up for grabs. Business Intelligence and Excel: Happily Married? Are spreadsheets a good match with business intelligence systems entrusted with providing consistent, reliable insight? The latest BI-Excel integrations let you have your spreadsheet-based analysis and always-validated, up-to-date data, too. Which add-in, plug-in or native link is right for you? Put to the Test: Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Built on the federated data access and Web-based architecture of Siebel Analytics, Oracle's latest BI offering is competitive, but the admin and query interfaces could stand a few usability improvements. Put to the Test: Microsoft Report Builder This ad hoc query tool is a free component of SQL Server 2005 and part of Microsoft's evolution from providing infrastructure to offering a complete BI platform. The Seven Pillars of BI Success Business intelligence tools may be getting better, but technology is only part of the story. To succeed you must develop measures, set a strategy, manage effectively, ensure executive support, choose the right tools, standardize on a platform and align the BI strategy with business. Here's how to make it happen. The Seven Pillars of BI Success Business intelligence tools may be getting better, but technology is only part of the story. To succeed you must develop measures, set a strategy, manage effectively, ensure executive support, choose the right tools, standardize on a platform and align the BI strategy with business. Here's how to make it happen. What Microsoft Buying ProClarity Means for BI Microsoft sweetens its BI portfolio. What Microsoft Buying ProClarity Means For BI Microsoft sweetens customer's BI portfolios by acquiring ProClarity. BI Parts Become a Platform Cognos 8 transforms separate tools into a Web-based BI platform. Beyond Statistics: SAS Takes On Mainstream BI SAS Enterprise BI Server and Web Report Studio make business intellience accessible to all. Review: SAS Takes On Mainstream BI SAS Enterprise BI Server and Web Report Studio make business intellience accessible to all. Here we take a closer look at the components specifically targeted at mainstream business users. Flying High With BI With business intelligence suites finally getting in sync with broad user needs, the software is poised to enter the mainstream and elevate operational decision-making. Flying High With BI With business intelligence suites finally getting in sync with broad user needs, the software is poised to enter the mainstream and elevate operational decision-making. Now With Enterprise Reporting: Hyperion Performance Suite Hyperion beefs up reporting and dashboarding. Review: Hyperion Gets Enterprise Reporting Hyperion beefs up reporting and dashboarding for Hyperion Performance Suite, which has been the company's fastest-growing product line since the Brio acquisition. Enhancing the User Experience MicroStrategy 8 adds user appeal to an IT favorite. Enhancing the User Experience MicroStrategy 8 adds user appeal to an IT favorite. Added innovations make the software easier to use, give it access to a broader range of data, and enhance it with predictive analytics. Extreme Makeover BusinessObjects XI is the company's most distinct release in a long time, a fusion under one server architecture of the best that two product lines had to offer Here's The Deal Strategic software acquisition should mark the beginning of a beautiful relationship. But in today's BI market, contract negotiations involve sorting through complex pricing options, maintenance fees, and more. Sage advice will help you become a smarter BI buyer. BI Scorecard: The Best BI Tool Vendor demos often obscure architectural differences between BI suites. Yet, as our BI Scorecard series concludes, you dare not overlook them. BI Scorecard: Administration Glamorous they are not, but strong administrative features merit close analysis as you evaluate BI suites. Our Scorecard series continues. BI Scorecard: OLAP Architecture is the most important criterion when evaluating OLAP functionality. Our series continues with a look at six leading products. BI Scorecard: Excel Integration When choosing a business intelligence product, it's easy to skip over what many users care about most: Microsoft Excel integration. BI Scorecard: Information Delivery The BI Scorecard series continues with an evaluation of information delivery capabilities in six products. BI Scorecard: Reporting Capabilities Reporting used to be boring, but no more. Our BI Scorecard series takes a comparative look at reporting features. BI Scorecard: Evaluating the Suites One Functional Area at a Time Our new series focuses on BI feature differences that matter most in your product selection. |
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