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Dashboards and Excel Data – Business Value or Lipstick on Untrusted Data?
Posted in: BlogOver the last year or so I have noticed a real surge in companies using or evaluating products to rapidly develop dashboards. In my consulting activities in this area, I have been amazed at the reliance on one particular primary source of data that users have latched onto in dashboard development. This is of course […]
IBM Moves on Complex Event Processing
Posted in: BlogFollowing on from my blog at the beginning of the year entitled “Predictions for 2008″ which predicted that Complex Event Processing (CEP) would be a hot topic this year, IBM has moved already in to play in this market by their acquisition today of AptSoft. With the growth in SOA and business process management as […]
Giants Start To Turn Up The Heat on BI & Search
Posted in: BlogMicrosoft’s announcement that it is intending on acquiring FAST last week is certainly the first major shot fired in the enterprise search battle that could ensue among the software giants. However it is not so much enterprise search that interests me in this context but the investment that a vendor like FAST had made in […]
Predictions for 2008
Posted in: BlogHappy New Year to all of you! It’s that time of year again when predictions are made so I thought I would throw my thoughts into the ring for debate. So here goes: Consolidation in the BI market will continue now that we have seen the software giants make their moves in 2007. Oracle bought […]
Battle Still Raging For Data Integration Leadership
Posted in: BlogLast 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 […]