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	New Articles IBM Completes ILOG Acquisition, Opens Door To Event Processing January 6, 2009 by Charles Babcock The purchase is expected to equip IBM with automated process intelligence for its business process management products. Intelligent Enterprise Event Calendar 2009 January 5, 2009 by Doug Henschen On a tight budget this year? Don't skip education. Find the enterprise-oriented events that are closest to home. Alaska Air Taps Oracle To Build Customer Loyalty December 31, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier The airline implements Siebel loyalty-program software designed to shift the focus away from revenue-draining free miles and more toward personalized service.
	Oracle Reports Growth In Tough Q2 December 19, 2008 by Charles Babcock While still having gains, Oracle showed that a slowing economy is having an impact on the acquisition-minded juggernaut.
	Workday Updates SaaS Offerings December 15, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier The updated human resources software as a service includes features for helping managers track the total cost of employees.
	Q&A: Ambuj Goyal on IBM's Path to Prediction and Optimization December 15, 2008 by Doug Henschen Touting new industry- and domain-specific alternatives, Big Blue's Information Management GM says predictive and statistical modeling are being used as "a hammer" for many business problems for which they are not the right tool.
	EMC Opens Business Intelligence Competency Center December 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The center would offer potential customers 'one-stop shopping' by delivering joint technology from EMC and partners Greenplum, IBM, Microsoft, Netezza, Oracle, ParAccel, Sybase, Teradata and Vertica.
	Planview Launches SaaS Version Of Portfolio Management Suite December 10, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The latest offering expands Planview's product line to 'pay-as-you-go SaaS.' The company also offers on-premise applications and will also provide hosting.
	SAP, Business Objects Offer Joint Data Migration Services December 3, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The latest offering consists of a framework, templates, methodology, tools and expertise in moving data from multiple computing environments to an SAP ERP system.
	Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting December 2, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.
	SAP CEO: SaaS Hurts Our Profits November 24, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier The company has readied version 2.0 of Business ByDesign, but a broad-market push is too costly for SAP, incoming chief executive Leo Apotheker said.
	Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy November 22, 2008 by Doug Henschen 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 November 22, 2008 by Doug Henschen Go beyond BI to give decisions makers at all levels the data they need to make the right business decisions.
	Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing November 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less.
	JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements November 17, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.
	Actuate Upgrades Reporting Development Tools For Eclipse BIRT November 10, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Actuate 10 makes it possible to present structured data as rich Internet applications within the Eclipse Foundation's business intelligence and reporting tools.
	IBM Unveils Mac Support, Roadmap For Lotus Symphony November 5, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The 2009 version calls for 60 new features that included developing the software entirely on version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format and OpenOffice 3.0 code base.
	SAS Offers Manufacturers Early-Warning Analytics November 3, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis uses early-warning analytics to monitor thousands of parameters and send automated alerts to warn of product defects and potential failures in the manufacturing process before they become costly problems, the company said.
	BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future November 2, 2008 by Seth Grimes 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.
	Informatica To Offer Salesforce.com Integration Service October 30, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier Informatica's Web-based service, to be announced at the Dreamforce conference next week, will let companies synchronize data between Salesforce CRM and onsite applications.
	Tibco Unveils 'Network Analytics' For Spotfire October 30, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The add-on, which is sold separately, offers a whole new layer of interactive visual analysis on the business activity monitoring suite.
	Coral8 Bows 'Continuous Intelligence' Platform October 21, 2008 by Doug Henschen 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.
	SAS, DataFlux Unveil 'Project Unity' October 10, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves SAS and its data-management subsidiary plan to combine technologies into one platform encompassing data quality, data integration and master data management for SAS's business intelligence software.
	Microsoft Will Bow In-Memory Analysis, Appliance-Ready Database in 2010 October 6, 2008 by Doug Henschen 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.
	Kalido Offers BI As Managed Service Through Partners September 29, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Axis Group and the Project Performance Corp. are the first to offer Kalido's infrastructure software on a subscription basis.
	Dell, EMC Offer Pre-Configured Oracle Data Warehouse September 24, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The initiative reflects the emerging interest among BI customers in data warehouse appliances that deliver high-speed data mining.
	Bluenog Combines ECM, Portal, BI Apps September 22, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Called Bluenog ICE, or "integrated collaborative environment," the concept behind the product is to offer an integrated package that reduces the need for IT organizations to manually integrate stand-alone offerings from separate vendors.
	Teradata Unveils Second Generation Data Warehouse Appliance September 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The Data Warehouse Appliance 2550 offers better performance, half the data center footprint and higher system availability than the previous 2500 appliance.
	Netezza Speeds Spatial Analysis in its Data Warehouse Appliance September 16, 2008 by Doug Henschen Optional module offers a faster route to location intelligence exploiting massively parallel processing.
	Panorama Adds Flash UI To Online Analytics September 15, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Panorama's latest technology uses Adobe Systems' Flash to add animation and graphics to the user interface to guide users through each step of the data analysis operations.
	Q&A: Gartner's Roy Schulte on Choosing BI, BAM or CEP September 15, 2008 by Doug Henschen Event processing looks like the next big thing in IT, but Gartner analyst Roy Schulte says it comes in three varieties: low-latency BI dashboards, lower-latency Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and ultra-low-latency complex event processing. Here's how to spot candidate apps, pick the right technology, and start with the right architecture.
	Infobright Boosts Open Source Data Warehousing September 15, 2008 by Seth Grimes MySQL-based analytical DBMS joins MonetDB and LucidDB among open-source, column-store data warehousing options. Sun invests in newly competitive vendor.
	Vitria Launches Business Performance Analytics App September 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The M3O Operations Book complements the company's M3O product, a business process management suite aimed at blending process management and event processing.
	Cognos TM1 Upgrade Lets Users Drill Down on Rows September 10, 2008 by Doug Henschen In-memory analytics engine gets enhanced Excel-integration, security features and international language support.
	Netezza Unveils Five Partner Apps For Data Warehouse Appliance September 8, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Edge Associates, HCL Technologies, Multi-Threaded Inc., RateIntegration and Systech Solutions developed the applications as members of the Netezza Developer Network.
	Start-Ups Bring Google's Parallel Processing To Data Warehousing August 29, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover Aster and Greenplum have made Google's MapReduce compatible with SQL for use in the parallel data warehousing systems based on open source PostgreSQL.
	User Group Hosting Discussions On SAP Price Hikes August 28, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier SAP is holding firm on its plan to raise maintenance fees to 22% over the next four years, despite some customers' opposition to the plan.
	SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking August 28, 2008 by Charles Babcock 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.
	Coral8 Upgrades CEP Engine August 24, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Coral8 Engine Release 5.4 includes greater configuration flexibility and enhancements to the vendor's Continuous Computation Language.
	Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics August 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves 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.
	Jaspersoft Releases iReport For NetBeans August 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves iReport is being offered as a plug-in for the integrated development environment, which is used to build Java desktop applications.
	BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse August 12, 2008 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee 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.
	Fair Isaac Upgrades Xpress-MP Suite August 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The decision management software includes new optimization solvers and features for fine-tuning the product to meet the user's specific needs.
	SAS Acquires SaaS-Based Specialist in Dynamic Price Optimization August 4, 2008 by Doug Henschen Deal nets online profit optimization platform. New global practice will branch out from hotels to events, online advertising and other potential markets.
	Dow Jones Connects On-Demand BI App To LinkedIn Social Network August 1, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Contacts from the business-oriented social network can be imported into G2, which maps relationships among people to help the user discover potential business opportunities.
	Tableau Takes on Geospatial Analysis July 25, 2008 by Doug Henschen Tableau 4.0 upgrade adds mapping features as well as collaboration and usability enhancements.
	Panorama Upgrade Incorporates Hybrid On-Premise-SaaS Capabilities July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The latest version of NovaView enables customers to retain their data warehouse in-house while combining its information with Web-based public data sources.
	Kalido Extends Data Warehouse Support To More Microsoft Software July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves The additional support stems from the latest version of Kalido Universal Information Director, which makes it possible to get data from Kalido's data warehouse to Microsoft Office, PerformancePoint and SharePoint.
	SPSS Upgrade Takes Analytics Mainstream July 16, 2008 by Doug Henschen SPSS Statistics 17.0 makes analytic insights more accessible to business users while beefing up functionality for analysts, programmers and administrators.
	Chordiant 'Listens' In On Call-Center Conversations July 13, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves Chordiant Recommendation Advisor 6.1 monitors call-center conversations and offers agents recommendations on what actions to take.