BI This Week


All The World’s a Spreadsheet

Google last week took aim at one of Microsoft’s bread-and-butter market segments: its Excel spreadsheet cash cow.

Business Intelligence Trends: IBM’s DB2 9 Release Answers Questions, Begs Answers

BI junkies must wait until later this year for IBM to shed more light on its DB2 9 BI strategy.

Analysis: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Power Grab

Analysts say PerformancePoint is a direct strike against the BI Powers-That-Be. The Powers-That-Be, on the other hand, aren’t sweating it. Or so they say.

Tableau Preps Next-Gen Data Viz Tool

Orgs are increasingly hip to the importance of data visualization, especially as an enabling technology for analysis, Tableau sez.

An Rx for Business Intelligence Success?

Buying BI technologies before taking stock of the business lay-of-the-land is a lot like putting the cart before the proverbial horse.

Microsoft’s Performance Management Powerplay

Software giant announces a new performance management complement to its 2007 Office System that draws on assets it acquired from ProClarity.

Experts Urge Restraint When Rolling Out Enterprise Information Integration

Some experts worry that EII—which helps enable painless connectivity to disparate data sources—has the potential to be easily abused.

Microsoft Gains Ground in Relational Database Management System Foot Race

Microsoft grew its share of the relational database market in 2005—even though its BI-laden SQL Server 2005 release didn’t ship until late last year.

Data Access: Just One Aspect of Enterprise Information Integration

Remember virtual warehouses? Is that what enterprise information integration is about?