BI This Week


Teradata Unleashed?

An independent Teradata will be a nimble competitor, Teradata officials argue -- nimble enough to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight.

Gartner Says: Organizations Flying Blind When It Comes to Implementing Business Intelligence

You’ve often thought it, but it took consultancy Gartner Inc. to confirm it: not every organization has a coherent business intelligence strategy.

An Operational Spin on Performance Management

Whether it’s Oracle and Hyperion or the future of BI and PM, Information Builders chief Gerry Cohen doesn’t mince words.

Big Blue Drops the Appliance Anchor with Balanced Warehouse

Between the Balanced Warehouse and Dynamic Warehousing, IBM is executing a full-court press in business intelligence.

Competitors Comment on Oracle’s Hyperion Gambit

Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.

Appliances, Appliances Everywhere!

Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.

Third-Parties Augment Mid Market Customer Relationship Management with Analytics

Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.

Informatica Announces Salesforce.com On Demand Solution

On-demand integration is apparently in demand, at least from Informatica’s perspective, especially vis-à-vis Salesforce.com

Oracle Comes Clean Sort of

Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.