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
Last month, Celequest notched a deal with NEC to develop a compliance appliance for the financial services industry.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 12, 2006
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
A service-level agreement (SLA) is a contract that spells out in measurable terms what services a provider will deliver to a customer. Though conventional wisdom suggests that SLAs accompany data warehouses, little has been written about data warehouse SLAs. Let's take a closer look at data warehouse SLAs--their benefits, the areas of quality they should cover, and some of the implications and solution components for successful implementation.
Some folks tout an intriguing, if esoteric, use case for EII: as a tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
Business intelligence practices—and the data management groups charged with overseeing them—are by no means independent of the enterprise IT main.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
Microsoft’s push into business intelligence (BI) client tools is primed for success, say users, largely because SQL Server 2005 gets just about everything right.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 5, 2006
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 28, 2006