BI This Week


Executive Decision Makers Increasingly Hip to Business Intelligence

Executives are increasingly hip to the importance of business intelligence as an aid to decision-making

Question and Answer: Ignore Holistic Performance Management At Your Own Peril

Cognos announces an ambitious partner program and gives customers a glimpse of its forthcoming Cognos 8 BI suite, now in beta

Ipedo Offers a New Take on Enterprise Information Intelligence

If EII is indeed on the cusp of going mainstream, technology pure-play Ipedo is a name you might want to remember

CSI Prescribes an Rx for Data Quality Woes

CSI plans to leverage its professional services expertise to address data quality shortcomings

Question and Answer: Crystal Reports As Autonomous As Ever

Business Objects’ James Thomas dismisses Microsoft’s Reporting Services as just another in a line of Crystal “clones”

BIRT: Users Optimistic about Emerging Reporting Engine

Based on the experiences of several users, BIRT looks like a good start—which should only get better

Oracle Nabs In-Memory Specialist TimesTen

Technology is seen as a potential boon to Oracle’s Fusion Middleware initiative

Business Objects Pushes Real time Decision making

Business Objects bills XI Built for Operational BI as a version of its BI suite that’s optimized for operational decision-making

Traverse metaController: When Extract Transform and Load Is Overkill

Forget ETL: metaController enables a new kind of integration, which Traverse officials describe as “process orchestration”