BI This Week


Microsoft Unveils Revamped Budgeting, Planning Tool

Microsoft expects to fold Forecaster into the same Office Business Applications group that develops Performance Point Server.

LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced Business Intelligence

Why not outsource your Business Intelligence infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?

SWOT: Oracle to Acquire Hyperion Solutions

Oracle’s announced intention to acquire Hyperion Solutions leaves many users, analysts, competitors and partners wondering: what’s next?

Analysis: Behind Oracle’s $3.3 Billion Bid for Hyperion

There’s a lot of overlap between Oracle and Hyperion, but there’s at least one segment where there isn’t much overlap -- BPM.

Business Intelligence Decision-Making: The Human Factor

TDWI Keynote speakers Jonathan Wu and Jon Koomey focused on the ways in which human behaviors can drive, or impede, Business Intelligence decision-making.

SAP Acquires Pilot for Strategy Management

SAP AG week moved to close the loop on business performance management with its acquisition of strategy management specialist Pilot Software.

TDWI Conference Wrap: Focus on the Human Side

The human side of Business Intelligence poked its head over the data last week at TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas.

A Tipping Point Prediction: More Predictive Analytics

From every direction, predictive analytics will prevail and pervade.

The Appliance Tipping Point: Commoditization

DATAllegro last week unveiled an off-the-shelf data warehouse appliance based on hardware from partners Cisco, Dell, and EMC.