BI This Week


Joy Division: NCR Teradata Vow to Part Ways

After a marriage of more than 15 years, NCR and Teradata to part ways.

It’s Good to Be Informatica

Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.

Ipedo's Exotic Elixir: XML plus Enterprise Information Integration equals Decision Making Nirvana

What's the big to-do about an XML-optimized EII platform? Plenty, says Ipedo

Business Friendly Reporting via XBRL: It is Not Just a Pipedream

Wouldn’t it be great if there were an open, extensible business reporting language? The good news is that such a standard already exists. Sort of.

Enterprise Application Showdown: Feuding Paradigms of 2006

SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.

Hewlett Packard’s Looming Business Intelligence Push

With the acquisition last week of a prominent BI-focused services firm, HP finally seems ready to take its place in the business intelligence power pantheon.

International Data Corp Predictions for '007 -- 'Hyperdisruption'

IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.

Software Heavies Set Sights on Business Intelligence Superpowerdom

This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.

It’s All About the Performance Management (Tools)

If new research from Gartner Inc. is any indication, 2006 was a heady year for most performance management (PM) players.