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HP Closes $13.9 Billion EDS Acquisition
August 26, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The deal creates the world's second largest IT services and outsourcing vendor, trailing only IBM.

IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
August 18, 2008 by Doug Henschen
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
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.

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.

XAware Upgrades Open Source Integration Tools
August 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Enhancements include better text processing and support for REST operation creation and testing.

How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
August 7, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
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.

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

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.

Ready Or Not, Here Comes SaaS
August 4, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
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
August 1, 2008 by Ralph Kimball
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
August 1, 2008 by Richard Martin
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.

Cast Iron Beefs Up Data Integration Appliance
July 28, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The iA4000 is an upgrade and replacement of the iA3000 appliance. New data migration capabilities include data conversion and profiling tools to accelerate software-as-a-service use.

Enterprise in the Cloud: Q&A with Google's Rishi Chandra
July 21, 2008 by Doug Henschen
As product manager at Google Enterprise, Rishi Chandra is responsible for spreading search appliances, Google Apps and a growing portfolio of services into the business world. Continuing a series of interviews on cloud computing, Intelligent Enterprise asks Chandra about Google's plans for applications, underlying infrastructure and meeting the demands of the enterprise.

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.

Metastorm Upgrades Business Process Discovery Tool
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Discovery Version 6.4 introduces wireless data collection, better reporting capabilities and tighter integration with Metastorm's modeling tool ProVision.

Sypherlink Upgrades Metadata Discovery, Mapping Tool
July 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Harvester 5.0 has better heuristics matching capabilities, tighter integration with the extract, transform and load process; and a graphical user interface with point-and-click navigation.

SnapLogic Adds Amazon EC2 Support In Data-Integration Tools
July 13, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
SnapLogic's technology maps data from one source to another, letting companies create new types of Web applications and mashups.

Oracle Introduces BI Application for iPhone
July 10, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Free 'Business Indicators' app taps Web services to display metrics and reports. Vendor promises two-way ERP and CRM apps.

Oracle Outlines Roadmap For BEA Acquisition's Products
July 2, 2008 by Charles Babcock
BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little re-engineering, Oracle President Charles Phillips said.

Ride the Next Wave of Flexible 'BI Workspaces'
June 30, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Forrester Research says SaaS and in-memory options will let power users and analysts gain insight without IT bottlenecks. Embrace the trend, but beware the costs and risks.

Cast Iron Offers Integration Appliance For NetSuite
June 30, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
NetSuite is the latest software-as-a-service vendor supported by Cast Iron integration appliances, which are billed as supporting application integration through configuration rather than coding.

Progress Buys Two SOA Tool Vendors In Two Days
June 27, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Mindreef and Iona Technologies are expected to bolster Progress' portfolio which includes management tools and business process management software.

Talend Unveils Open Source Data Profiler
June 27, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Open Profiler helps IT teams assess data to identify potential problems before beginning projects such as data integration or application development.

Comply Or Die: Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
June 7, 2008 by Andrew Conry-Murray
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.

Trillium Expands Global Coverage Of Data Quality Software
June 5, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The Trillium Software System version 11.5 is targeted at companies that process large volumes of product and customer data from across regions.

Informatica Tackles Real-Time, On-Demand and Cross-Enterprise Integration
June 4, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Platform upgrade addresses emerging latency, data-quality and identify management demands, incorporating technologies from two recent acquisitions.

HP Upgrades Neoview Data Warehouse Appliance
June 3, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Enhancements target mixed workloads, high data volumes and low-latency demands of operational BI deployments.

How To Assess Offshore Data Security
May 31, 2008 by Adam Ely
Secure offshore outsourcing takes similar strategic thinking as in-house work.

Facebook Says It Will 'Open-Source' Its Platform
May 27, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
Facebook's decision to open its platform comes less than two weeks after the social network began denying Google's Friend Connect.

Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
May 20, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.

HP Upgrades Database Archiving Software
May 19, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
HP Database Archiving has a new designer module that improves the software's ability to model application transactions, such as purchase orders and sales orders, and to apply business rules and corporate retention policies.

Data Deduplication: More Than Just A Feature
May 16, 2008 by George Crump
The major storage manufacturers have struggled to put together viable strategies for data reduction.

It's Official: SEC to Propose XBRL-Based Financial Reporting
May 14, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Voluntary program destined to be mandatory for all public companies within two years, speeding competitive analysis and easing regulatory oversight.

Composite Software Offers Online Tool To Help With Data Integration Projects
May 12, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The Data Integration Strategy Recommendation Tool assesses 13 key variables, as well as the option to assign relative weighting to each variable, for any project requiring data integration.

Consider Data Value When Deciding What To Store
May 8, 2008 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
A report from the Society of Information Management says it is just as important to figure out what data you can throw out as it is to decide what to store.

Tibco Adds Service Performance Monitoring To ActiveMatrix
May 6, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Tibco's Service Performance Manager monitors services to detect any latency in response times.

SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
May 5, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
SAP will announce Tuesday on-demand "components," due out next year, that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.

What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research
May 5, 2008 by Seth Grimes
Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.

Is User Monitoring The Next Wave In Enterprise App Management?
April 26, 2008 by Michael Biddick
If you care--really care--about your customers and end users, you'll watch their every move. Vendors are betting IT is in the mood to snoop.

Web 2.0: Yahoo Rewires With Open Strategy
April 24, 2008 by Thomas Claburn
With its Yahoo Open Strategy, the company follows in the footsteps of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft by opening up its software to developers.

Cloud Computing Startup Gets $4.5M Venture Funding
April 24, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
RightScale makes developer tools for creating server clusters on Amazon Web Services.

Web 2.0: Microsoft's Live Mesh Aims For Simplicity
April 24, 2008 by Michael Singer
The company will use open standards like Atom, JSON, POX, RSS, HTTP, REST, and FeedSync to allow for the "it just works experience."

Microsoft Continues Its Work On Oslo -- SOA for Windows
April 24, 2008 by Charles Babcock
Microsoft has shown it can take a third-part app built with Java and move it over to .Net without changing any Java code.

Microsoft Developers Weigh In On Live Mesh
April 23, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
Microsoft MVPs say that they hope Microsoft can deliver on the big promises it's making with its software-plus-services development platform.

SaaS, Web Services Top Software Priorities For Businesses
April 23, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
A new research report also shows signs of SaaS's maturity, with fewer businesses reporting they adopted SaaS for the first time last year.

With Live Mesh, Microsoft Admits Web Is Now Central To Computing
April 23, 2008 by J. Nicholas Hoover
Ray Ozzie says Microsoft's software and services endeavor is a shift from its PC roots and key to sharing content and data over a number of devices.

Informatica Plans To Add Identity Software To Integration Platform
April 23, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Informatica plans to use the acquisition of Identity Systems to add to its integration software identity search and resolution for a variety of objects, including people, companies and products.

SaaS: Red Light, Green Light
April 19, 2008 by Michael Healey
Here's how to drive your software-as-a-service initiative beyond standbys like CRM--without getting into dangerous territory.

Pegasystems Adds Web App Builder To BPM Suite
April 18, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Internet Application Compose streamlines mash-up construction and makes it possible to deploy the application across branch offices, contact centers, agent desktops, portals and other channels, as well as existing Web applications.