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Will Microsoft On-Demand Increase On-Demand Demand?

• By Mike Schiff
• July 26, 2006

Here at Last: Oracle Delivers Long-Awaited Extract Transform and Load Overhaul

Oracle positions OWB R2 as a full-blown competitor to enterprise ETL solutions from IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 26, 2006

Question and Answer With Microsoft’s Office Business Intelligence Point Main

When users speak, says Office BI guru Alex Payne, Microsoft listens.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 19, 2006

Ipedo’s Enterprise Information Integration Platform Gets a Retrofit for Service ability

Ipedo last week announced a refresh of its EII suite that’s tweaked for service-ability, officials say.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 19, 2006

Business Objects’ Data Visualization Strategy Coming into Focus

Business Objects hopes to do for data visualization what the former Crystal Decisions once did for reporting: make it ubiquitous.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 19, 2006

Services: The Next Frontier for the Business Intelligence Pure Plays?

Cognos is no stranger to professional services, having collaborated with an ecosystem of partners for some time, but last week’s announcements marked its most ambitious foray into the services game yet. Some analysts say Cognos’ move has the makings of a proverbial double-edged sword.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 12, 2006

Celequest Branches Out

Last month, Celequest notched a deal with NEC to develop a compliance appliance for the financial services industry.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 12, 2006

Best of Both Worlds: Actuate Touts Open Source-Commercial Business Intelligence

Actuate 9 is a pivotal release for a company that continues to plot a best-of-breed course in a rapidly consolidating BI marketscape.

• By Stephen Swoyer
• July 12, 2006