Battle Still Raging For Data Integration Leadership

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Last month both Informatica and IBM, both long regarded as among the leaders in the data integration market, made further announcements to their products in attempts to keep their noses in front of the others in this market. Informatica announced their 8.5 release of PowerCenter and PowerExchange while IBM announced further extensions to their Information […]

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DW Appliance Market Adds a New Player

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TDWI in the US recently, ParAccel became the latest vendor to announce its arrival into the Data Warehouse Appliance market. This market already has players like DatAllegro, Dataupia, GreenPlum , HP, Netezza, and Teradata to name a few. ParAccel’s new Massively Parallel Analytic Database runs on commonity hardware (first available release is Sun but other […]

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IBM Finally Moves on BI by Acquiring Cognos

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Today IBM finally moved to plug the hole in its software product portfolio by announcing the acquisition of Cognos for $5bn USD http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22572.wss. This acquisition has been on the cards for a long time with several analysts including myself wondering how long it would be before we saw Big Blue move on Cognos (see my […]

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SAP to Acquire Business Objects as 2nd BI Vendor Falls to a Giant

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Over the weekend SAP announced there intention of purchasing Business Objects for a massive 4.8bn Euro. http://www.sap.com/about/press/press.epx?pressid=8360 This signals the fall of the second major independent BI vendor this year with the other being Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion. This is a good move for SAP who have needed to strengthen their BI offering for some […]

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OpenSource BI Ramping Up

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JasperSoft this week announced availability of its BI suite on the MySQL database. This is an interesting announcement in that it means an open source BI platform on an open source DBMS. There is no doubt that this announcement may well catch the eye of many a developer or BI savvy CIO. It could appeal […]

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