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Information Builders Resolves Excel Hell
11.20.2008
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Mark Smith
Microsoft's prescribed antidote to "Excel Hell" won't be available until at least 2010... So why wait years to evaluate a product when there are solutions today?... Last month Information Builders released its latest product, called WebFocus InfoAssist, which brings a range of BI capabilities for business and IT for easily accessing, analyzing and publishing data across the enterprise.

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David Linthicum
5 Classes of Cloud Computing
11.18.2008
The best way to look at cloud computing is to learn how to classify the clouds. Right now I see at least five classifications: storage-as-a-service, database-as-a-service, applications-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, integration-as-a-service, and security-as-a-service. Each category has its own path to maturation, with applications-as-a-service (or SaaS), leading the way. The next push will be...

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Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend
11.17.2008
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Seth Grimes
Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools.

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Curt Monash
Hot Topics in High-Performance Analytics
11.17.2008
For the past few months, I've collected a lot of data points to the effect that high-performance analytics — i.e., beyond straightforward query — is becoming increasingly important. And I've written about some of these topics, including MapReduce, geospatial analytic capabilities and memory-centric analytics among a few others...

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Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
November 16, 2008
by Seth Grimes
With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.

Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
November 10, 2008
by Cindi Howson
Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations.

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Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing
The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less.

Making the Business Case for Mashups
Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream.

JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements
JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.

IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.

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The Business Intelligence channel offers thought leadership from experts including Seth Grimes, Cindi Howson, Neil Raden, Doug Henschen and The Kimball Group. You'll also find news coverage, trend analysis, Q&A interviews and case studies on the following topics:




data warehousing TECH INFO CENTER
Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing
by Antone Gonsalves - November 20, 2008
Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
by Cindi Howson - November 10, 2008
Sybase Offers Real-Time Loading Of Transaction Data
by Antone Gonsalves - November 10, 2008
SaaS-Based BI Vendor Offers State-by-State Election Dashboard
by Doug Henschen - November 3, 2008


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