Should organizations step up their efforts to rationalize their collection of DI tools? Yes, Gartner researchers say, but not for the reasons you might think.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 6, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Last week's Teradata-SAP partnership will benefit joint customers and possibly create additional sales opportunities for Teradata.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 6, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Aberdeen Group study highlights best practices of Best-in-Class users of real-time business intelligence
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
- May 6, 2009
 
            
                
	                
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		            Clean, integrated data is no fad
                    Good, clean, standardized, reconciled, matched, integrated data is a business basic and until we embrace the formal mechanisms to clean it up, we’re simply mixing plaids with stripes.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle will also now own or control the future direction of the MySQL database, the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, and the StarOffice user productivity suite.
                    
			            - By Mike  Schiff
- May 1, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Real-time data can turn into an addiction: once you get a taste of it, you'll want more.
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
- April 29, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In many shops, the dream of unified information access remains elusive.  An industry expert offers well-honed tips.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- April 29, 2009