Acquisitions of pure-play BI vendors was the big story, but the meaning will play out in 2008. How will the smaller vendors find a place in the new ecosystem?
- By Ted Cuzzillo
- December 19, 2007
In 2007, the large, independent, publicly-traded, best-of-breed BI and PM player all but ceased to exist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 19, 2007
BPA is intended to increase efficiency and effectiveness by analyzing current business processes and identifying their shortcomings.
- By Christopher Houck
- December 13, 2007
This article originally appeared in the issue of TDWI.
Leading proponents of business-driven business intelligence (BI) design and development methods have recognized that the BI payoff is created through improved or reengineered core business processes from BI investments (Williams and Williams, 2006), but until now there has been no rigorous empirical data to validate that perspective. As a result, companies in a wide range of industries have struggled to make the business case for BI, and have failed to drive BI use into the core business processes that help create business value.
- By Mohamed Elbashir, Steve Williams
- December 13, 2007
This article originally appeared in the issue of TDWI.
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard is gaining solid support, momentum
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Oracle announces BI and performance enhancements and folds Essbase into its BI Foundation—but what about Hyperion’s other BI assets?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2007
Dashboards help you get where you want to go; measure the right things, then visually simplify the complexity your end users must deal with while maintaining the data’s believability.
- By James E. Powell
- December 10, 2007
This article originally appeared in the issue of TDWI.
Just because IBM went out and bought itself a best-of-breed BI player doesn’t mean it can’t and won’t partner with other BI competitors
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 5, 2007