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What, Me Worry?

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, October 27, 2005
3:02 PM

Microsoft is making good on its plans to invade the business intelligence market with the launch of Business Scorecard Manager, a business intelligence server that's due Nov. 1. But at least one stand-alone analytics vendor says it isn't worried by Microsoft's foray into BI.

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Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
6:31 PM

Never mind that Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion Solutions and others are allied with Microsoft on the operating systems front. The giant from Redmond wants their business on the applications end.

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, October 24, 2005
4:00 PM

Oracle says Siebel's budding business intelligence functionality is a "hidden jewel" within the database maker's planned acquisition of the customer relationship management firm. But it's hard to call analytics a "hidden" jewel when such BI functionality is the very thing Oracle most wants to add to its enterprise software and database systems.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, October 20, 2005
12:18 PM

How often is the integration between analytics tools and data sources as inexpensive and easy as analytics vendors claim it will be? The answer, it seems, is not too darned often.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
1:08 PM

Some readers were upset that the business intelligence tools judged in a head-to-head comparison we're running don't include Business Objects or Hyperion. Well, there's a reason for that.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, October 13, 2005
4:04 PM

What could be more handy than a point-by-point comparison -- and ranking -- of the business intelligence suites your organization might be considering? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be a teleporter.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
3:51 PM

Cognos found itself at the center of criticism from its rivals when it introduced Cognos 8. The reason: The BI vendor's new product release, competitors said, largely abandoned any focus on performance management. But anyone who thought Cognos' move was an indication of things to come from other BI firms has been proven wrong.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, October 6, 2005
3:04 PM

I love baseball. That being the state of things, I'm struggling to write this blog entry while simultaneously watching the Astros go at the Braves in the National League Division Series. I'm happy to report the Astros are winning -- not because I particularly like them, but because I can't stand the Braves. All this post-season baseball has got me thinking about fundamentals.