BI This Week


Microsoft Ships SP2 for Reporting Services with Next Gen Reporting Features

Next version of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2005 will marry developer facility with an intuitive and easy-to-use client-side console designed expressly for business users

Hyperion Touts Next-Gen BI Platform Release

Project Avalanche provides a single workspace for operational reporting and ad hoc query and analysis

Salesforce.com Signals More Aggressive Customer-Service Push

Building on last month’s Multiforce initiative, Salesforce.com plans to branch out from its hosted CRM roots

SAS Showcases Revamped Business Intelligence Suite

Retooled SAS 9 suite includes integrated OLAP capabilities and a substantially retooled Web Report Studio

Examining the Aftershocks of IBM's Ascential Acquisition

Because of the range of BI partners impacted, IBM's Ascential buyout could prove to be the most disruptive BI acquisition to date.

Service Targets Data Quality Pitfalls

Firstlogic’s new data quality services offering promises to help companies quickly get up to speed on the technology

Question and Answer: Managing Exploding Data Volumes

Stephen Brobst says Teradata’s vision of “extreme data warehousing” is about a lot more than just an attention-grabbing marketing term

WebFOCUS 7 Kicks Up Enterprise Business Intelligence

WebFOCUS 7 incorporates adapters into more than 200 different structured and unstructured data sources

Datawatch Updates Heterogeneous Data Access Tool

Monarch 8 lets users extract information directly from PDF files for analysis, or export data from PDF files to spreadsheets or databases