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Oracle Comes Clean-Sort of

Oracle promised to support, but stopped short of pledging to augment, Hyperion's vaunted Essbase OLAP engine. At the same time, however, officials were steadfastly non-committal about what the company plans to do with the rest of Hyperion's BI assets, such as Hyperion Intelligence, an operational reporting tool based on technology acquired nearly four years ago from the former Brio Technology. That enough to pique your curiosity? Then read on! [more]

Third-Parties Augment Mid-Market CRM with Analytics

A pair of third-party vendors market add-on solutions designed to beef up the analytic prowess of both Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Both Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data visualization and analysis specialists; both cite a demonstrable hunger for analytic functionality in the growing SMB CRM segment. [more]

Informatica Announces Salesforce.com On-Demand Solution

If Salesforce.com is not a force to be reckoned with, Informatica didn't get that memo. The data integration specialist just announced its first on-demand offering, specifically tailored for Salesforce.com. Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview to hear Informatica explain the new offering. [more]

TDWI Webinar: Data Federation Enables Right-Time BI

Traditional methods employed by data warehousing solutions often fall short of delivering access to real-time or operational information. Furthemore, such solutions tend to be
sub-optimal in handling data that's unstructured or semi-structured. Data federation is an under-utilized technology that can extend the data warehouse to meet a variety of business needs without significant impact to the existing infrastructure. Register for this TDWI Webinar to learn how data federation can augment your information management environment. [more]

TDWI Seminar Series in Colorado

Denver can be quite beautiful this time of year, especially in late March. If that's not enough reason, you can also attend TDWI's Seminar Series, March 26-29. Classes include: TDWI BI Fundamentals, DW Architectures and Data Integration Techniques; as well as HandsOn-Olap, Business Analytics and Advanced Analytics. Click here for more info. [more]

White Paper

Business-centric BI attempts to focus attention on the business side of information management. Of course, trying to couch decision-support systems development in a business context is nothing new; and in fact is the optimal strategy. Nonetheless, many BI initiatives tend to focus heavily on technical issues, often to the detriment of the business needs that drove their creation. This white paper offers some perspective on how and why to keep an organizational eye on the business ball. [more]

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