The week that was in business intelligence.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Thanks to five years and more of gestation, many of the business intelligence (BI) facilities Microsoft ships with SQL Server 2005 bear only a facile resemblance to their predecessors. We spoke with SQL pros about the good, the bad, and the lovely qualities of Redmond’s next-gen BI stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 15, 2006
Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 8, 2006
It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 1, 2006