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
This year, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP dropped all pretense and started talking candidly about their ambitions in the BI space.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 20, 2006
If new research from Gartner Inc. is any indication, 2006 was a heady year for most performance management (PM) players.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006
pureXML extends DB2 9’s ability to store, update, delete, query, and index well-formed XML, officials say.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006
SAP is no slouch in the analytics department—as its surging growth in IDC’s recent business analytic market surveys demonstrates.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 13, 2006