BI This Week


Informatica’s PowerCenter 8.5 Stresses Real-Time, Collaboration Features

IBM isn’t the only best-of-breed data integration player on the block, as the latest PowerCenter 8.5 release proves

Have Acquisitions Changed the Data Quality Market?

There’s been tumult aplenty in the once-insulated data quality market segment. What do the new data quality power rankings look like?

Big Blue Flexes Its Data Integration Muscles

IBM now fields the industry’s strongest overall data integration stack, industry watchers say, but Big Blue isn’t resting on its laurels.

The Analytic Beat Goes On

The analytic tools of today are a lot different from the bread-and-butter OLAP offerings of yesterday. The analytic tools of tomorrow will differ still more.

Bay Area Chapter Explores Outsourcing, Visualization

TDWI’s second San Francisco-area chapter meeting attendees heard expert advice on offshoring and dashboards.

Industry Reacts to SAP’s Business Objects Acquisition

Most BI and PM players see an upside to SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects—but no two vendors see the same one.

Continuing Industry Consolidations Lead to Business Intelligence Vendor Dichotomy

SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects underscores how BI vendors are splitting into two camps.

Oracle Vaults into Data Warehouse Appliance Fray

How Oracle’s new data warehouse appliance entry complicates things for just about everyone.

Blockbuster Acquisition: SAP Gobbles up Business Objects

What does the deal portend for customers? A mixed bag, analysts say.