BI This Week


Cognos/SPSS Coupling Aims to Fast-Track Predictive Analytics

Partners say new integration between Cognos 8 and Clementine can help accelerate predictive analytic deployments

What Makes a "Performance" Dashboard?

What separates a "performance" dashboard from its vanilla dashboard brethren?

SQL Server 2008: A Case of Too Much Too Soon?

Are customers -- many of whom are still satisfied with SQL Server 2000 -- interested in an upgrade to Microsoft's SQL Server 2008?

Have Data, Will Migrate: Informatica Announces Integrated Suite

Informatica says it can help accelerate data migrations while reducing risk.

Business Intelligence Product Release Dates: Better Late Than Buggy!

What's the impact to your BI projects if your vendor misses an update schedule?

Business Intelligence Industry Outlook: Busy and Bright

After a tumultuous year of consolidation, the BI industry outlook seems as busy -- and as interesting -- as ever

SAS Updates Business Intelligence Products

SAS says it's making predictive analytics safe -- and highly-usable -- for the enterprise

KPIs in Education: Rank versus Raw Numbers

Educators have been trying for decades to agree on key performance indicators for public schools or even whether KPIs can be used at all. One entrepreneur who envisioned a business intelligence-like service for schools thinks he's figured it out.

Users Give PerformancePoint a Big Thumbs-Up (Part 2 of 2)

Users say PerformancePoint lets them preserve existing business processes and roll out BPM capabilities to hitherto untouched constituencies