BI This Week


Microsoft’s CRM Delay Draws Mixed Reactions

Announcement of a delay with version 2 rankles some users, but most are taking it in stride

Dashboard Deployment Surges in Manufacturing Sector

One in four companies will purchase and deploy a dashboard solution in 2005

Informatica's PowerCenter Bundle, Product Roadmap

For a company that has sometimes seemed to lack direction, Informatica is back on track

Reader Feedback: MicroStrategy 8

Readers report: MicroStrategy has done a very good job supporting existing customers with point upgrades and other enhancements

Teradata Ships Next-Gen Data Warehouse

Warehouse 8.0 means that Teradata is still the vendor to beat in the high-end data warehousing space.

Actuate Targets Financial Performance Management

With its new FPM offering, Actuate is competing more aggressively against performance-management specialists such as Cognos and Hyperion

Q&A: Informatica CEO on Data Integration Trends

Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors

Business Objects Gears up for Mid-Market Customers

Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite

MicroStrategy 8 Gets Thumbs up from Analysts, Users

BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW