BI This Week


An 'Intelligent' Recipe for the Successful Rebirth of New Orleans

Devastated by hurricane Katrina, New Orleans now enjoys its greatest opportunity of all time. Business intelligence technology must be leveraged to ensure a successful rebirth of the "City that Care Forgot."

Data Warehousing Appliance Sector Heats Up

Ever since introducing its debut data warehousing appliance in March, DATAllegro has competed aggressively against appliance pioneer Netezza

Twelve Steps to Revitalize a Data Warehouse

Tales from the front lines: How a BI director revitalized a failing data warehouse

Pitney Bowes Nabs Another Data Quality Player: Firstlogic

Acquisition of Firstlogic takes one of the few remaining independent data quality players off the market

IBM Announces Linux-powered Data Warehousing Bundles

If IBM’s new Linux-powered bundles look and sound like data warehousing appliances, are they, in fact, data warehousing appliances?

Salient's Margin Minder Max: Real Time Profit and Loss Insight

Salient promises real-time visibility into profit and loss from virtually any domain perspective

Oracle's Next-Gen Extracting transforming and Loading Tool More Details

With a new knowledge encapsulation feature and improved scheduling and security, OWB Paris looks like the real deal

SAS Revamps Data- and Text-Mining Tools

The last fortnight has seen a flurry of activity in the once-sleepy text-mining space

Informatica Doubles Down on Data Quality

Informatica’s courtship of two leading data-quality players helps to burnish its patina of openness