Business intelligence practices—and the data management groups charged with overseeing them—are by no means independent of the enterprise IT main.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
Microsoft’s push into business intelligence (BI) client tools is primed for success, say users, largely because SQL Server 2005 gets just about everything right.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
A few weeks ago, Big Blue announced a new commodity data warehouse appliance based on 64-bit Opteron chips from AMD.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
It might spell doom and gloom for vendors, but many BI pros think Microsoft’s BI push is good news for Microsoft-centric BI shops
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006
With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006
With more than one-third of the Fortune 100 tapping QuickBase for CRM, sales management and project management, Intuit thinks it has a winner on its hands.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006
A rising tide may lift all boats, but what happens when the tide recedes? This article examines the effect of Microsoft targeting the analytic applications market.
- By Mike Schiff
- June 21, 2006
Oracle’s $6 billion acquisition of Siebel was good enough for second place—behind arch-rival SAP—in 2005’s torrid CRM market.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 21, 2006