Today's credit scoring system does a lousy job of predicting customer defaults. SAS's finance architect is out to overhaul it.
- By Ted Cuzzillo
- October 1, 2008
The Oracle/HP Database Machine is notable for being as ambiguous as it is ambitious. No one seems to know just how much it costs; which options it includes (or requires); or how much storage it encompasses.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 1, 2008
The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2008
Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.
- By David Hatch
- September 24, 2008
Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2008
Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.
- By Ted Cuzzillo
- September 17, 2008
Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
The data integration suites of today are fast, flexible, and -- in spite of their venerable ETL roots -- far from legacy holdovers, proponents argue
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2008