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As the Business Intelligence Industry Churns

The week that was in business intelligence.

SQL Server 2005: The Good, the Bad, and the Lovely

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.

BIRTh of a Notion

Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?

Powers That Be—Hyperion and Teradata Team up for Retail Analytics

Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.

Oracle Searches for Extra-Relational Data

Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.

Adios, Itanium: Applix Pushes 64-bit Business Intelligence for the Rest of Us

This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.

Dashboard-Driven Analysis, Relational Online Analytical Processing-Style

It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.

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