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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall BI framework, while best-of-breed data integration vendors, who provide enhanced ETL functionality, have
an increased focus on data cleansing and integrity. (...)
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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall...
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2006-03-07
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Compare the total cost of ownership of business intelligence (BI) solutions.Find the software information you're looking for.Free
white papers! For many companies, traditional business intelligence (BI) software is costly and resource-intensive. So are
open source alternatives that require significant con (...)
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Compare the total cost of ownership of business intelligence (BI) solutions.Find the software information you're looking
for.Free white papers! For...
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2010-04-05
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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) hosts quarterly World Conferences to help organizations involved in data warehousing,
business intelligence, and performance management. These conferences supply a wealth of information aimed at improving organizational
decision-making, optimizing performance, and ac (...)
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... This can include comparing their current environment with other ...
The Business Intelligence Journal, published biannually, provides information and resources
for ...
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2006-10-25
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Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA) today announced the acquisition of Influence Software, a leading provider of analytic applications
for the e-business value chain. Informatica is acquiring Influence Software for roughly $80 million in a stock transaction
that will be treated as a pooling of interests. Th (...)
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... (Nasdaq: INFA), the company whose software provides the infrastructure powering some of the world's
most advanced business intelligence systems, today ...
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2000-01-05
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In today's highly competitive business climate, the quality and timeliness of business information for an organization is
not only a choice between profit and loss, it is a question of survival or bankruptcy. No business organization can deny the
inevitable benefits of business intelligence. (...)
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Business Intelligence: Its Ins and Outs. ... Originally published - January
10, 2005. Introduction. Business intelligence (BI) is a big buzzword in today's IT world.
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2009-04-29
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Spurred by government mandates for more business transparency, business intelligence has emerged to extract information from
ERP systems. How has BI emerged? What does the terminology surrounding it mean, and what is its current state of affairs? (...)
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Business Intelligence Status Report.
Published:
2005-06-27
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal
Decisions is an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in business intelligence, specifically for query
and reporting tools. The new name reflects that of its flag (...)
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal Decisions
is an informati...
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2001-04-10
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information. (...)
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information.
Published:
2001-09-25
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operations in a transaction valued, on a fully diluted basis, at approximately $880 million, based on the
closing price of Informix common stock on November 30, 1999 (...)
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operati...
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1999-12-08
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Business performance management (BPM) includes setting key performance indicators, using data mining to discover data patterns
and using software to help drive business decisions and develop corporate strategy. For an organization, there are many benefits
to implementing a BPM solution. (...)
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... BPM represents the next generation of business intelligence (BI), and
is defined as the use of software to help organizations manage their processes and ...
Published:
2009-04-27
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The Perfect Order measurement has proven to be a powerful measurement of a business. Should The Perfect Order be defined
from an internal point of view or from a customer point of view . . . inside-out or outside-in? (...)
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... Defining The Perfect Order. Key performance indicators (KPIs) give management a tool to judge the health
of the business. While the ...
Published:
2005-05-09
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Find out how Jaspersoft is staying ahead of the game in the BI market in this comprehensive product note on Jaspersoft Enterprise
Edition. Entering the BI space for large companies is not a small challenge. Jaspersoft may be doing its homework to acquire
more recognition and make a smooth but sure entranc (...)
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... With their recent Enterprise edition, Jaspersoft looks at taking a big step forward for a competitive
business intelligence (BI) solution, but is open source ...
Published:
2010-03-31
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Published:
2003-05-26
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Implementing information technology (IT) governance means using a structure of relationships and processes to direct an organization.
Some project portfolio management (PPM) vendors have adopted the IT governance mantra to differentiate their solutions from
those offered by the enterprise resource planni (...)
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Implementing information technology (IT) governance means using a structure of relationships and processes to direct an organization.
Some project...
Published:
2005-12-13
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SAP's focus on delivering a portal as an overlaying personalized user interface may proved to be a crucial bet, as an intuitive
portal might prove to be a simple an effective way to integrate information from disparate systems. (...)
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... architecture roadmap that includes Web services, portals, exchanges and Web Application Server (WAS),
bundled with its knowledge of business processes bodes ...
Published:
2002-02-26
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This BI article looks at why and how in-memory technology transforms analytic applications. The primary bottleneck to high-performance
multidimensional analysis has been slow hard drive speed—the time it takes for data to be transferred from disk storage to
random access memory (RAM). With crashing RAM (...)
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... As business models change, corresponding data structures also have to change ...
silicon-based semiconductors that constitute the material of a computer system’s ...
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2010-09-01
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
Published:
2003-08-18
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
Published:
2003-08-17
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Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Business Intelligence and Date Warehouse. Business intelligence (BI) is not a new concept. What’s new is that
BI tools are now accessible for midsize companies. Man (...)
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Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Busines...
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2010-03-11
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Recently, SAP announced solid results for Q4 2001, in contrast to the current soft market. Although not all troubles seem
to have been left behind, as can be seen from reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP's justification of
merging its two subsidiaries, a positive sign is that SAP has (...)
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... On January 31, at its Conference on Business Intelligence and Enterprise
Portals in Leipzig, Germany, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), a leading provider of business ...
Published:
2002-02-25