After a marriage of more than 15 years, NCR and Teradata to part ways.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 10, 2007
Industry watchers once scribbled epitaphs for pure-play competitor Informatica. A funny thing happened, however: Informatica has thrived.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
What's the big to-do about an XML-optimized EII platform? Plenty, says Ipedo
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
Wouldn’t it be great if there were an open, extensible business reporting language? The good news is that such a standard already exists. Sort of.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 3, 2007
SaaS and other new-fangled application deployment paradigms came to the fore in 2006, even as the fat client BI suite of old came into its own.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 27, 2006
A common trend among progressive companies is the establishment of one or more centers of excellence. Simply put, a center of excellence (or COE) is a team of people established to promote collaboration and the application of best practices within its area of influence. To be successful, the center of excellence must have a clearly defined charter and the authority to fulfill its responsibilities to the company.
- By Lisa Loftis, Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., Jonathan G. Geiger
- December 27, 2006
With the acquisition last week of a prominent BI-focused services firm, HP finally seems ready to take its place in the business intelligence power pantheon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006
IT players will accelerate their adoption of new business models and technologies—anything, it seems, to buck the slow-and-steady spending trend.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006