BI This Week


Informatica's Move in a Changing Marketplace

With IBM/Ascential, Informatica/Composite, and other announcements taking center stage recently, it's clearly been a disruptive spring in the data integration market

Question and Answer: Building a Top-Notch Business Intelligence Platform on SQL Server

Panorama Software says it won’t become just another notch in Microsoft’s mergers-and-acquisitions bedpost

Analysis: Ascential and IBM Minimal Overlap, Lots of Promise

Many customers will welcome a tight coupling between Ascential and IBM technologies

SAND Touts Information Lifecycle Management for Analytics

Company’s new offering incorporates ILM practices to bring ballooning data warehouse volumes under control

Extract Transform and Load Competitors Regroup, Plan Offensives

ETL competitors view IBM’s acquisition of Ascential as a game-changing opportunity

Attensity Introduces Desktop Solution for Unstructured Content Management

As a small, relatively unknown company, Attensity has its work cut out for it in a highly competitive text-mining landscape

With Ascential Acquisition, IBM Becomes Data Integration Powerhouse

IBM has, or will soon have, the data integration goods, but can it convince customers it isn’t just a DB2- or WebSphere-centric play?

Oracle Releases Business Intelligence Bundle for 10g

In spite of its “standalone” description, Business Intelligence 10g should be considered an Oracle-only play

Improving Data Warehouse Performance: Survey Finds Companies Are Flying Blind

Your data warehouse may very well be a speed demon—but to what extent does its high performance correlate with exceptional business value?