BI This Week


Pitney Bowes Focuses on Customer Data

Pitney Bowes unveiled its new Customer Data Quality (CDQ) Platform, an all-in-one data profiling, data cleansing, and data enrichment suite.

Microsoft, Oracle Trade Salvos in the Battle of Linux

Both Microsoft and Oracle have now embraced Linux. What does that mean for you?

Business Objects Swings for the Fences

It’s been a busy fortnight for Business Objects, which previewed its next-gen BI suite and touted its new sales and marketing alliance with IBM.

Dashboards and Scorecards Hail Rise of Performance Management

An increasing number of organizations are tapping full-fledged PM tools—including performance scorecards and dashboards.

DataFlux Revamps Data Quality Suite

DataFlux 8 features new project acceleration and geocoding enhancements, along with bread-and-butter data profiling improvements

Imhoff Keynote: The First Word in Business Intelligence Is ‘Business’

BI systems can work magic for decision-support, but only if someone on the business side sponsors them!

Business Intelligence and Performance Management Slowly, but Surely, Converge

While a growing number of organizations have gotten hip to the promise of PM, many are still in the PM iron age

Kalido Revamps Data Warehousing Platform

Kalido is that rarest of extant creatures: a best-of-breed DW vendor. With a wrinkle or two, of course.

The SQL Server 2005 Learning Curve Revisited

For some organizations, surprisingly, SQL Server 2005 has been a more or less turnkey migration experience—especially on the BI front.