BI This Week


Putting Common Sense Back into Credit Scoring

Today's credit scoring system does a lousy job of predicting customer defaults. SAS's finance architect is out to overhaul it.

Analysis: Strong Reactions to Oracle's Database Machine

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.

Behind Business Objects' New Metadata Management XI Release

The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.

A Best-in-Class Approach to Managing Operational Key Performance Indicators

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.

Lyza Empowers New Class of Business Intelligence Consumers

Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.

Netezza Adds Geospatial Features

Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS

Analysis: New Business Intelligence Strategies Entail Collaboration, Pitfalls

Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.

Infobright Introduces Open Source Analytic Data Warehouse

Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems

"New" Extrac Transact and Load Technologies Challenge "Legacy" Stigma

The data integration suites of today are fast, flexible, and -- in spite of their venerable ETL roots -- far from legacy holdovers, proponents argue