Blogs
September 25, 2008
Oracle Enters The DW Appliance Market
July 30, 2008
Flood Gates on Operational BI on the Verge Of Breaking Wide Open
July 28, 2008
DatAllegro - The New Microsoft DW Appliance?
July 16, 2008
Kalido - Its a Wrap For Microsoft
July 15, 2008
Microsoft Adds Another Piece To The Data Management Puzzle
Articles
Emerging Technologies in Operational Business Intelligence
Having written about business activity monitoring on a number of occasions, Mike focuses this article on complex event processing, a newly emerging technology in operational business intelligence.
Getting Started With Operational BI
What exactly is operational BI and how can you use it to improve operational performance?
Web 2.0 and Business Intelligence – How Do They Fit Together? Part 4
This final installment in Ferguson's four-part series covers mashups.
Web 2.0 and Business Intelligence – How Do They Fit Together? Part 3
This article looks at folksonomies, blogs and wikis as Web 2.0 technologies to see how they apply to business intelligence and performance management.
Web 2.0 and Business Intelligence – How Do They Fit Together? Part 2
This second installment in a series on Web 2.0 and how it can impact business intelligence and performance management looks at the world of web services, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, PHP and programming
frameworks.
News
expressor software Ships Version 1.2 of its Semantic Data Integration System
expressor 1.2 includes enhanced connectivity for the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) data warehouse appliance, SAS, Sybase ASE and Microsoft SQL Server and repository support for IBM AIX 5.3.
DFS Group Selects MicroStrategy
DFS plans to use MicroStrategy for reporting and analysis of key business areas, including sales and operations.
Embarcadero Releases ER/Studio 8.0
ER/Studio 8.0 offers a visual representation of data lineage within an enterprise, allowing data professionals to conduct impact analysis between data sources and targets.
Information Builders Announces Six New Partners to Drive Solution-Oriented Business Intelligence
MegaMation, Accertify, iovation, 41st Parameter, Creative Data Solutions and ScottTech have co-developed specialized solutions using WebFOCUS and iWay Software to meet customer demand for enhanced
value and efficiency.
Food Pantry, Ltd Selects ARC Retail Business Intelligence from Manthan Systems
Food Pantry, selected ARC Retail Business Intelligence 5.8, a retail performance management solution from Manthan Systems.
White Papers
Open Source Business Intelligence: A 2008 Progress Report
Companies are under tremendous pressure to leverage data and technology to "compete on analytics." This white paper presents the results of a survey on BI practices and open source adoption.
Talend Uses Open Source to Deliver Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Enterprise Data Integration
This IDC white paper sponsored by Talend discusses the data integration market and shows how the combination of Talend's technical approach and its open source licensing overcomes key barriers to
adoption of data integration.
Bloor Research - Data Integration Platforms Market Update
This Data Integration Platforms Market Update details the requirement for enterprise-ready data integration platforms and examines the vendor landscape in this space.
Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies and Implementation Examples
Many organizations have adopted open source for their data integration projects. This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data
integration and its associated benefits.
The Evolution of Integration
This white paper explains how data integration grows from simple data movement to complex transformation functions, and how modern data integration technology enables organizations to deploy data
integration technology.
Spotlights
Sid Probstein, Chief Technology Officer of Attivio
Sid Probstein explains how Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities through its unique
ability to combine structured data and unstructured content in one universal index. 
Brad Peters, CEO of Birst
Brad Peters introduces Birst - an automated, on-demand business intelligence (BI) and analytics tool that simplifies the complexities of BI.
Shadan Malik, President and CEO of iDashboards
Shadan Malik discusses iDashboard's innovations in the presentation of visual intelligence via dashboards.
