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Bad Day at the Races: Oracle Watches SAP Take First for Customer Relationship Management

Oracle’s $6 billion acquisition of Siebel was good enough for second place—behind arch-rival SAP—in 2005’s torrid CRM market.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 21, 2006

From the Editor

• By James E. Powell
• June 16, 2006

This article originally appeared in the issue of TDWI.

All The World’s a Spreadsheet

Google last week took aim at one of Microsoft’s bread-and-butter market segments: its Excel spreadsheet cash cow.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 14, 2006

Business Intelligence Trends: IBM’s DB2 9 Release Answers Questions, Begs Answers

BI junkies must wait until later this year for IBM to shed more light on its DB2 9 BI strategy.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 14, 2006

Analysis: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Power Grab

Analysts say PerformancePoint is a direct strike against the BI Powers-That-Be. The Powers-That-Be, on the other hand, aren’t sweating it. Or so they say.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 14, 2006

Tableau Preps Next-Gen Data Viz Tool

Orgs are increasingly hip to the importance of data visualization, especially as an enabling technology for analysis, Tableau sez.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 7, 2006

An Rx for Business Intelligence Success?

Buying BI technologies before taking stock of the business lay-of-the-land is a lot like putting the cart before the proverbial horse.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 7, 2006

Microsoft’s Performance Management Powerplay

Software giant announces a new performance management complement to its 2007 Office System that draws on assets it acquired from ProClarity.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• June 7, 2006