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Hyperion Offering BI For The Masses
Hyperion plans to offer next year mini desktop applications that can deliver to customer employees selected information from the vendor's business intelligence platform.
Watch Out for Oracle BPMS
Oracle has one of the most widely used BPEL tools on the market, but so far they haven't shown up in Gartner's business process management suite (BPMS) magic quadrants. That should change soon. Recall that Oracle did an OEM deal in July with IDS Scheer for the ARIS Process Design Platform. At the time I speculated this had more to do with keeping up with SAP, but that's apparently not entirely true.
CA Upgrades Application Performance Manager Introscope
CA enhances the integration between Wily Introscope, software for managing application performance, and the Unicenter Network and Systems Management framework.
Applying Semantic Web Ideals
"From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence.
Keep An Eye On Sales Force Automation
For companies looking to extend their customer relationship management software to sales the time is right to look at sales-force automation applications, particularly from those vendors that offer SFA as a Web service. That's according to market research firm Gartner, which recently released its predictions for the SFA market.
SharePoint 2007: Ring In the New… And the Old
It seems that the world is almost slowing down a bit as Microsoft readies a final version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, the quite substantial upgrade to a nearly ubiquitous SharePoint 2003. SharePoint is many things to many people, but customers typically deploy it as a lightweight collaboration portal. With this latest version, Microsoft is trying to extend the product's reach. Microsoft has certainly broadened SharePoint functionally, but sometimes "enterprise" means depth
Governance Gauge: Top Court Issues E-Discovery Rules
Newly amended e-document related laws take effect December 1, 2006.
Dashbriefs: Uima Standard; Microsoft Forms Interoperability Alliance
IBM has announced that Apache has launched a project for UIMA-based software.
Dashboard: To Avoid Meltdown, Test, Measure and Check Web Site Stats Often
A Weather Channel site used web analytics to find users weren't picking up on important navigational tools.
Dashboard: Data Integration Is a Moving Target
Data integration is integral to emerging service-oriented architectures, so it's doubtful that the technology's evolution is complete.
Dashboard: Three Ways to Drive Traffic From Search Engines
How do you make your Web site "organically" pop up in the first five results of a potential customer's Web search? Elastic Path Software's Jason Billingsley offers three suggestions for improving a site's organic search results.
Dashboard: To Boost Performance, Follow Visitors Beyond Your Site
Internet marketers are working with companies to tell them where their customers came from and where they are going once they roam out of site.
Headsup: Explorer Upgrade May Break Interfaces
Will IE7 affect your software?
Mission Intelligence: Walking in a Data Wonderland
Forrester Research reports that online holiday season retail sales in the United States will hit $27 billion. Will investments in data mining, Web analytics and customer data integration tools prove their mettle?
Put to the Test: BEA Delivers a 'Best-of-Hybrid' Development Environment
Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 makes Eclipse more approachable, surrounding it with well-chosen libraries and development functionality.
Letter Drop: Shady Stats; Playing Up the Positive
Richard Starnes challenges, "Anyone with an elementary understanding of statistics and surveys knows the CSI-FBI survey is statistically questionable."
Shortlist: WebMethods Fabric 7 and More
Also, Hyperion System 9.3, Pervasive Data and Business Integrator 8.12 and IDS Scheer Aris 7.02.
Put To The Test: WebSideStory HBX Analytics
HBX Analytics measures total site performance, including animations, podcasts and RSS feeds.
Search in Focus: Implementing a Taxonomy
Search engines don't know the difference between reading glasses and drinking glasses, but a taxonomy puts your query in context. We outline several ways to build taxonomies, ranging from the tough but potentially more accurate approach of building from scratch to the easier but potentially compromised approach of buying a prebuilt taxonomy or using automated clustering software.
Field Report: Taxonomy Improves Reed Business Search Results
RB Search has developed three evolving taxonomies as well as a product and service ontology with more than 200,000 core terms.
SaaS and SOA: Together Forever
If you want a flexible and scalable software-as-a-service partner, look no further than the solid pedigree of service-oriented architecture. We explore the relationship between SaaS and SOA, two emerging approaches for delivering IT functionality, applications and end-to-end business processes.
Field Report: RiskMetrics Says SaaS Goes Better With SOA
To both consume and provide SaaS, this risk analytics firm is turning to SOA.
Kimball University: Building a Foundation for Smart Applications
Off-the-shelf apps may offer built-in analytics, but the best approach to supporting operational decisions is to rely on a solid data warehouse that cleans, integrates.
Innovation Asset Management: Don't Bottle Up Creativity
As businesses compete in the emerging knowledge economy, many are focused on managing intangible assets, such as intellectual property--and that's bringing asset management into vogue.
BI on Steroids Reaches the Extended Enterprise
I want you to start thinking about BI on steroids -- the innovations that will take BI to the point of becoming a must-have office tool for 110 percent of employees. These are not just the technical innovations, but also innovations in how you think about BI and view information processes. 110 percent? Am I crazy? Sometimes. Is that a typo? Nope.
Adobe Expands Its Digital Rights Software
Vendors have been hawking enterprise digital rights management software since as early as 1994, yet few have bought. Board shenanigans and intellectual property lawsuits may start to propel solutions like Adobe's, which password-protects Word, PDF, and CAD files, to the forefront. Or not.
Application Insight: The Unstructured Revolution
A real revolution is at hand -- and it's the ability to develop, display, manage and otherwise leverage unstructured data across the enterprise. Not excited? You should be.
Peak Peformance: Smart Money Is on MDM
If companies spent on Master Data Management training and technology what they now spend on chasing down and fixing data errors, they would be on their way to a longer term solution.
Hello, world: Intelligent Enterprise officially joins the blogosphere!
We are excited about opening up this new channel for communication with subscribers and the broader Intelligent Enterprise community. We look forward to participating in the ongoing conversation among the blogs, and to sharing our ideas, reports and observations.
Disaster Recovery Vendor GoldenGate Broadens SQL Server Support
GoldenGate Software releases an upgrade of its transactional data management system, which has been enhanced with support for IBM's DB2 on the mainframe, and better integration with Microsoft SQL Server.
Open Text Wants To Be The Lifecycle Hub For Content
The enterprise content management vendor plans to discuss at its user conference this week that its library services can reduce liability by ensuring that no documents are kept longer than legally necessary.
Webmethods Moves Toward The SOA Promised Land
WebMethods is a good example of an old-time enterprise application integration vendor that's moving as fast as possible to meet the rising demand for tools to build service-oriented architectures. A form of distributed computing, SOAs make it possible to reuse applications in multiple business processes. This bit of magic is usually performed through the use of interfaces that leverage XML standards.
Stealth Layoffs and Reputation Monitoring
A growing body of search software products aims to help a company understand and manage its reputation on the general Web, among media sources and in the blogosphere. Is software the best method of securing good public opinion?
As ECM Consolidates, the Focus Turns to Content Applications
FileNet is now part of IBM, Hummingbird has been acquired by Open Text and Stellent will soon be part of Oracle. This trio of announcements, all within the last month, marks a turning point for enterprise content management (ECM).
Business Objects Looks To Simplify BI In Next Release
Business Objects plans to ship next year a software suite that the company says simplifies the use of its business intelligence platform.
BEA Puts Bus on Automatic, Adds Workflow to Integration
Eying large-scale SOA deployments, BEA links AquaLogic Service Bus to UDDI registries and brings human exception handling to system-to-system integration scenarios.
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