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SAP to Acquire Business Objects as 2nd BI Vendor Falls to a Giant
Posted in: BlogOver 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 in: BlogJasperSoft 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 in: BlogLooking 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 in: BlogOver 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 […]
IBM Strengthens Its Data Integration and Data Management Tools
Posted in: BlogYesterdays announcement by IBM on its web site that it has signed an agreement to acquire DataMirror is more evidence that the software giants of the industry are starting to compete for more marketshare in the data management marketplace. In this announcement IBM stated that its intention is to use the DataMirror technology to strengthen […]