BI This Week


Steady Is the Course for Extracting Transforming and Loading Pure Plays

DataMirror and SunOpsis continue to find their own way—a third way, so to speak—in a hotly contested ETL marketscape

Question and Answer: How Much Momentum Does Service Oriented Architectures Have?

It’s a service-enabled world out there. Who’s along for the ride so far?

Teradata Nabs DecisionPoint for Performance Management

DPS gives Teradata a bona-fide financial performance management stack, but officials insist Teradata is not a BI or BPM contender

The SQL Server 2005 Coattail Effect

Will BPM and ETL ride to mainstream success on the coattails of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 juggernaut?

Actuate Updates Financial Performance Management (FPM)

With its better-than-spreadsheet-spreadsheet marketing strategy, Actuate could find an eager audience for its FPM tool.

Firstlogic and Pitney Bowes: The Data Quality Dynamic Duo That Almost Was

What really happened—and where does Firstlogic go from here?

With Xcelsius, Business Objects Touts Better-Than-Excel Excel

Business Objects positions Xcelsius as a complement to, and extension of, Microsoft Excel

Netezza and SPSS Strike an Accord

The data warehousing appliance arms race spills over into the partner arena.

IBM and MDM

Big Blue Master Data Product Push

IBM Corp. co-opted last week’s Ascential World customer confab and turned it into a showcase for its broad (and growing) stack of data integration products.