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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 […]
DW Appliance Market Adds a New Player
Posted in: BlogTDWI 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 […]
IBM Finally Moves on BI by Acquiring Cognos
Posted in: BlogToday 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 […]