pureXML extends DB2 9’s ability to store, update, delete, query, and index well-formed XML, officials say.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 13, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle is tops in the overall data warehousing market, but Microsoft has officially arrived as a data warehousing superstar.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 6, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The BI acquisition-go-around continued apace last week, as both Informatica and Business Objects acquired smaller vendors
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 6, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle controlled 13.2 percent of the overall business analytics market—far ahead of runner-up SAS.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    No one seems to agree on just what Master Data Management is—and many DM pros still aren’t familiar with MDM as a technology vision, either.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If 80 percent of enterprise information in unstructured, could the effective integration of that info spell trouble for the old 80/20 rule?
                    
			            - By Eric  Kavanagh
 - November 29, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What’s that you ask? Since when did Informatica become a data quality vendor?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 29, 2006