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MicroStrategy Reports Mega-Earnings
Earnings of $24.5 million and sales of $71.6 million blow past the predictions made by analysts who follow the BI firm.
Small-Business Approach Leads to E-Government Portal Success
Washington County, VA, taps private sector expertise.
ProClarity Makes Foray Into Japanese Market
Professional services firm Understanding K.K. will serve as the primary distributor of ProClarity 6 in Japan.
Crime Fighter BI
Florida's efforts in law enforcement data-sharing, analytics and reporting can teach all BI practitioners a thing or two.
Oracle-PeopleSoft: A Process Perspective
Oracle at long last has control over PeopleSoft after a protracted 18-month fight. But what can PeopleSoft users expect to gain from Oracle?
Army Enlists E-Forms To Speed Processes
Just like most businesses, the U.S. Army wants to eliminate paperwork and move to electronic processes, but much more than time and money may be at stake.
SAP Veteran Named QlikTech North American CEO
Rick Pitts joins QlikTech from SAP America, where he was Vice President of SMB Channel Sales.
OutlookSoft Puts Predictive Analytics Into BPM Tool
The performance management product is designed to predict financial and operational business performance based on analysis of historical and real-time data.
How To Make BI Less of a Gamble
To avoid expensive BI debacles, use rules-based audits and proofs of concept to understand potential project pitfalls
EII: Information on Demand
Will enterprise information integration really displace traditional data warehousing, or just complement it?
Agile To The Bone
Service-oriented architecture lets you respond quickly to demands for new and improved processes
Plug and Play Meets Process
Service-oriented approaches have helped Owens & Minor, TransUnion, Pfizer and MasterBrand Cabinets build processes quickly and affordably
Metastorm Teams With NEC
NEC will recommend and install Metastorm's e-Work software in conjunction with its own products and services, especially those designed for the banking, brokerage and insurance industries.
Ask Dr. Data
The stuff we love to loathe.
Tear Down This Wall
E-commerce expert Peter Fingar and CSC Europe CTO Howard Smith are business process management systems (BPMS) evangelists. They envision a world where application design teams don't have to worry about the IT stack and don't have to throw their requirements over the proverbial wall to programmers.
Diverse Priorities
For a growing portion of companies, BI is ready to start giving something back to the bottom line.
Short List
Composite Information Server 3.0; Edge 2.0; JRockit 5.0; WebLogic Server 9.0; Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) 3.2
Automation and Analysis For the DBA
Embarcadero DBArtisan 8.0 helps you manage all the databases across your enterprise from a common console
Process Gets Boost from SOX
The work SOX requires is a great start for process improvement, automation and control.
BI and Content Increase Donations; Tsunami Victims Benefit
World Vision, an international humanitarian organization, is relying on the convergence of BI and content to help it optimize donations for relief efforts in the tsunami-stricken areas of South Asia.
Open Source DBs Up Enterprise Appeal
Highly anticipated releases of the top two open source databases, PostgreSQL 8.0 and MySQL 5.0b, are expected this month. -- Also: Get Smart and Trendspotting
Add Value To Beat 'Googlization'
Publishers are adding deeper information to their services.
Oracle Expands Its Performance Management Offerings
Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting gives businesspeople control of processes but little Excel integration
Defining Success And Failure, IT Style
Take the mystery out of gauging IT project success.
Setting Priorities To Achieve Agility
Agility: where do you start?
Letter Drop
What Happened to Simplicity?; Intelligent Infrastructure; Lights On
The End of the Beginning
Thanks to SOA, web services are evolving into knowledge "products."
Democratized BI
The design of Business Objects' latest analytics platform points to the future of how BI will be practiced, no matter what vendor a business uses.
SMB PLM: Innovation Driver?
Product lifecycle management for SMBs equals better IPM.
SAP Netweaver: The Process Dimension
Potential performance and process improvement hindered by automation and transactional-centric view.
Oracle Opens New World of Opportunity
Oracle OpenWorld and PeopleSoft acquisition reveal strengths and weaknesses for Oracle in 2005 and beyond.
Nextance Adds IP Optimization Suite
Enterprise contract management includes intellectual property agreements.
Innovation Roadmapping
Roadmapping is vital for realizing innovation.
Innovation Management Software: Walking the Talk
Do Apple and Microsoft really help you to innovate?
Gaining the Most Business Value from BI
Leverage categorization to build quantifications of costs and benefits.
Data Security Across International Borders
Are US corporations that embrace offshore IT resources doing enough to protect customer privacy?
Databeacon Lays Out the .NET
New Smart Client is first to leverage .NET client deliverability.
Consolidating with Compliance
Driving compliance efficiency in the Sarbanes-Oxley environment.
A New Kind of Solution-Sharing Network
Leverage solution-sharing networks for innovation.
Cognos Buys Spanish BI Vendor
Optima, formerly a unit of Sage Finance, will operate under the name Cognos Espana.
E-Forms Are Almost Ready for Primetime
If you developed your impression of electronic forms products three years ago, it’s time to look again.
U.S. Army Enlists E-Forms To Speed Processes
Just like most businesses, the U.S. Army wants to eliminate paperwork and move to electronic processes, but much more than time and money may be at stake.
The Rumor Of SOX ROI
Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant organizations are starting to back up vendor claims that compliance management practices are producing benefits beyond compliance.
Review: Databeacon Has Analytics Down Pat
True analytical reporting must be dynamic if users are going to turn to it to help them predict business performance in ever-changing markets.
Actuate Sees Move Back Into Black
CEO Pete Cittadini also gives an upbeat outlook on Actuate's push to develop an open-source BI reporting tool.
IBM Acquires Privately Held Analytics Firm
SRD's software is designed to assist customer relationship management, regulatory compliance, security against insider threats and similar functions.
Quiet For Now
Oracle and Microsoft want to own the business intelligence functionality that most customers now separately integrate into their databases.
IBM Development Platform Gets Reporting Capability
Crystal from Business Objects becomes the default reporting tool in the Rational environment, a visual modeling and design product for Java apps.
Review: Real-Time Collaborative Planning In Excel
Applix TM1 Planning Manager combats latency in data processing during the budgetary planning cycle.
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