BI This Week


The Power of Focus: Building Information

Information Builders touted new WebFOCUS enhancements at its annual user confab – and hinted of next-gen goodies in WebFOCUS 8.

The Mainframe: Reports of Its Demise Are Premature

Mainframes are back; well, they never really went away.

Microsoft Touts Performance Point Next Gen SQLServer at Inaugural Business Intelligence Fete

It’s official: Microsoft has arrived as a BI and PM power.

Consolidation Continues: TIBCO Nabs Spotfire

Does TIBCO’s acquisition of visualization specialist Spotfire Inc. portend a coming round of consolidations in the data viz space?

Beyond Reporting: InetSoft Thinks Bigger

iSuite boasts canned connectivity into heterogeneous data sources, which lets it support right-time reporting and analysis requirements.

Analysis: HP Unveils NeoView

What makes HP think it can succeed where so many other vendors haven’t? A unique mix of software, services, and fault-tolerant servers, for starters.

Cognos Makes Peace with Excel

C8 BI Analysis for Excel isn’t some gussied-up version of your business-analyst-power-user mentor’s Excel import and export capability, officials promise.

The Dashboard Reloaded: Tableau Touts Version 3 point 0 Release

Tableau 3.0 delivers a host of niceties, including support for rich formatting, free-form annotations, and—chiefly—a new Dynamic Dashboards component.

A Personal Data Warehouse?

Can you have a personal data warehouse? One man has built it, but you won’t find it in the store, at least not yet.