Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - January 3, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 27, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 20, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 20, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the acquisition last week of a prominent BI-focused services firm, HP finally seems ready to take its place in the business intelligence power pantheon.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 20, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If new research from Gartner Inc. is any indication, 2006 was a heady year for most performance management (PM) players. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 13, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SAP is no slouch in the analytics department—as its surging growth in IDC’s recent business analytic market surveys demonstrates.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - December 13, 2006