Intelligent Enterprise

IDC Report Sees Steady Growth for BI, Pent-Up Demand for Analytics
Microsoft, SAS and SPSS lead marketshare gains in 2007. Analyst sees media and academia driving mainstream demand.

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

Microsoft Revises Volume Licensing Agreements
The software vendor is continuing down a path that's cut the total number of licensing programs from more than 100 last year to 26.

Cast Iron Offers Integration Appliance For NetSuite
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
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
Open Profiler helps IT teams assess data to identify potential problems before beginning projects such as data integration or application development.

Sun Bundles MySQL Database, GlassFish App Server
By charging only $65,000 per year, Sun hopes to challenge traditional commercial software providers that charge large license fees and maintenance costs.

Cloud9 Analytics Brings Forecasting to Salesforce.com Users
Data warehouse in the cloud gains forecasting app, Excel-based visual report builder.

Progress Software To Buy Iona Technologies
Iona will become a wholly owned subsidiary, making it likely that its Artix Web integration and Fuse SOA product lines will continue.

HP-Oracle Warehouse Marks Another Win for Appliances
HP BladeSystem bundle targets 1-4 terabyte market sweet spot. HP claims speed and energy efficiency advantages over Dell's alternative.

HP Tailors BladeSystem To Oracle Data Warehouse
The system provides the essential elements of a data warehouse infrastructure, including computing power, storage, interconnect, and management.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo Integrates Software with Cognos 8 Platform
Location intelligence vendor adds another BI suite integration to take geospatial analysis mainstream.

Google, Salesforce Expand Integration Of Cloud Computing Platforms
The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs merges content from Google services with Salesforce.com's database, logic, and workflow capabilities.

Jaspersoft Puts A New Face On BI Suite
Jaspersoft has used Web 2.0 technologies, such as Ajax and dynamic HTML, to simplify the process of building queries and dashboards and generating reports in Business Intelligence Suite Professional Edition.

Business Intelligence Software Growth Shows Dramatic Drop In U.S.
Gartner blames the drop in BI spending growth on a weak U.S. economy.

Google Suffers Outage On App-Hosting Platform
The Google App Engine outage was the result of a flaw in Google's data-store servers and was trigged by a particular class of queries, engineers said.

Clarabridge Improves Text-Analytics Platform
Release 3.0 of the Content Mining Platform includes a drag-and-drop interface, called Navigator, which makes it easier than previous versions to organize and distill insights from text-based customer surveys.

SAP To Acquire Manufacturing Software Vendor Visiprise
The purchase will expand SAP's "Perfect Plant" portfolio of end-to-end manufacturing software.

Inside Microsoft's $550 Million Mega Data Centers
A tour of Microsoft's gargantuan, under-construction San Antonio data center reveals a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure on an immense scale.

NetSuite Adds SaaS Applications For Light Manufacturers
The vertical suite includes functionality for assembly, work order and bill of materials. The new services are aimed at midsize companies.

Teradata Updates Warehouse Miner
The upgrade includes a new feature that enables business users to drag and drop analytic functions from an index and run them against a data warehouse to discover patterns in customer, financial and operational data.

Coming To The iPhone: Enterprise Apps
Analysts say the latest iPhone has the security and speed businesses seek in a smartphone, and the enterprise applications they depend on aren't far behind.

IBM Rules Middleware, While Oracle + BEA = Distant No. 2
Business process management software, portals, business-to-business software, and enterprise service buses are being added to application servers in the middleware category.

Business Objects Dives Into Predictive Analytics
The SAP subsidiary's first predictive analytics module takes direct aim at the market dominated by SAS Institute.

Enterprise 2.0: CIA's Secret Intellipedia Has Universal Relevance
The government's private wiki is a solution to the age-old problem of getting important information into the hands of intelligence agency people who can put it to good use.