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News Highlights

  • An Operational Spin on Performance Management

    Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen is in a very select club. Along with Microsoft's Bill Gates, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and SAS chief Jim Goodnight, Cohen is still at the helm-or otherwise intimately involved with the operation-of a software company he helped found in the 1970s. You don't last 30 years in the software business for nothing-especially when you're as to-the-point as Cohen. We spoke with him recently about Oracle and Hyperion, the ascendance of performance management, IBI's own spin on performance management, and other issues. As always, he didn't mince words. [more]


  • Teradata Unleashed?

    To listen to many of Teradata's competitors tell it, the data warehousing giant has had its time in the limelight. It's time for Teradata to step aside, or be elbowed aside, by The Next Big Thing: the data warehousing appliance. Teradata officials, not surprisingly, don't agree with this claim. An independent Teradata will be a more nimble competitor, they argue; nimble enough, Teradata officials assert, to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight. [more]


  • Gartner Says: Organizations Flying Blind When It Comes to Implementing BI

    You've often thought it, but it took consultancy Gartner Inc. to confirm it: not every organization has a coherent business intelligence (BI) implementation strategy. More to the point, Gartner researchers say, many organizations will continue to squander the lion's share (at least 70 percent) of their BI budgets to resolve a passel of familiar people, process, and governance issues. This is money that could otherwise be spent supporting or enhancing their BI investments, Gartner officials note. [more]


  • TDWI Webinar: SOA and BI Market Trends and Analysis

    Both BI and SOA are rapidly undergoing changes as organizations increasingly embrace real-time reporting, while focusing more on business processes. Due to these trends, businesses are moving toward the abstraction of data within a managed information environment, including such areas as: metadata, master data, governance, and data quality. Thanks to the use of these managed information environments, underlying data architectures can be changed independently from dependent applications, thus providing greater agility to the enterprise. Register for this free TDWI Webinar to learn more. [more]


  • White Paper: 7 Applications of BI Software

    Looking for ideas to jump start your own BI application development? This paper provides detailed descriptions, sample reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), and case studies from companies that use MicroStrategy's enterprise BI architecture. [more]


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