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IBM Finally Moves on BI by Acquiring Cognos

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | November 12, 2007 | Blog

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 […]

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

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | October 8, 2007 | Blog

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 […]

OpenSource BI Ramping Up

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | August 9, 2007 | Blog

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 […]

BI Harnesses The Power of Javascript and AJAX – So Is the Portal Dead?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | August 7, 2007 | Blog

Looking at the some of the latest enhancements coming out of BI vendors it would seem that the vendors are certainly getting to grips with Web 2.0. In particular the power of Javascript and AJAX is opening up new ways to distribute intelligence and to keep tabs on key performance indicators and metrics. A few […]

Multiple Stack Complexity Vs SOA Simplicity

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | July 31, 2007 | Blog

Over the last several months in customer assignments associated with deployment of BI web services and Data Integration web services I keep running into the same problem that everyone seems to be struggling with when it comes to implementing a Service Oriented Architecture. That problem is one of multiple integration stacks. As I consult on […]

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