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Enterprise applications have long been providing the means for businesses to collect required data and deliver it to the
right people. Now that sales and marketing professionals are empowered with the right tools to better serve their customers
and gather insights on all customers' interactions, the ques (...)
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2003-07-23
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information. (...)
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2001-09-25
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
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2003-08-18
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Commerce One has partnered with Sagent Technology to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. Also,
Ariba has partnered with Informatica to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. (...)
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Published:
2000-07-20
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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall BI framework, while best-of-breed data integration vendors, who provide enhanced ETL functionality, have
an increased focus on data cleansing and integrity. (...)
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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall...
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2006-03-07
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Users choosing point planning or BI products should consider the integration infrastructure and effort needed to combine
these products versus the cost and functionality issues of choosing an integrated CPM product suite (if still possible to
find). Mission-critical issues like scalability, reliability, (...)
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Users choosing point planning or BI products should consider the integration infrastructure and effort needed to combine these
products versus the...
Published:
2003-08-19
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Find out how Jaspersoft is staying ahead of the game in the BI market in this comprehensive product note on Jaspersoft Enterprise
Edition. Entering the BI space for large companies is not a small challenge. Jaspersoft may be doing its homework to acquire
more recognition and make a smooth but sure entranc (...)
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... interest from big companies to acquire a commercial open source solution as well as to the product maturity
of open source tools like Jaspersoft's BI suite. ...
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2010-03-31
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
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2003-08-17
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Although ASA seems to have obtained an intriguing complementary product offering and a modest client base for almost next-to-nothing
cost, it has to quickly articulate a clear and assuring message to the market that it can and will execute a strategy for
enhancing PowerCerv product lines for a foreseeabl (...)
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Although ASA seems to have obtained an intriguing complementary product offering and a modest client base for almost next-to-nothing
cost, it has ...
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2002-10-29
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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that
the business needs of the user dictate the technical solution, not the other way around. In other words, it should let the
business users drive the process, and remove the problems of (...)
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business needs of the...
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2005-07-20
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal
Decisions is an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in business intelligence, specifically for query
and reporting tools. The new name reflects that of its flag (...)
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal Decisions
is an informati...
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2001-04-10
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This BI article looks at why and how in-memory technology transforms analytic applications. The primary bottleneck to high-performance
multidimensional analysis has been slow hard drive speed—the time it takes for data to be transferred from disk storage to
random access memory (RAM). With crashing RAM (...)
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... is complementary to Analysis Services, which represents an organizational BI system
... Engine is aimed at providing a powerful combination of tools (a calculation ...
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2010-09-01
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Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors
hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors
found the e-business holy grail? (...)
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... their customers. The warehouse will be open and pre-built, with out-of-the-box tools
for in-depth analyses and reporting. Currently ...
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2000-12-19
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SAS Institute has announced the production availability of SAS/Warehouse Administrator software, Version 2.0. This new version
provides IT the ability to proactively publish data warehouse information and track its usage, plus aggressively manage the
process of change in the data warehouse. (...)
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... management by providing information delivery through e-enabled viewers like MetaSpace Explorer and integration
with business intelligence and reporting tools. ...
Published:
2000-03-13
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Business performance management (BPM) includes setting key performance indicators, using data mining to discover data patterns
and using software to help drive business decisions and develop corporate strategy. For an organization, there are many benefits
to implementing a BPM solution. (...)
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... organizational needs have evolved, and require more powerful reporting tools to capture
... The realization that BI and data warehousing concepts can be leveraged ...
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2009-04-27
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The Perfect Order measurement has proven to be a powerful measurement of a business. Should The Perfect Order be defined
from an internal point of view or from a customer point of view . . . inside-out or outside-in? (...)
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2005-05-09
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Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA) today announced the acquisition of Influence Software, a leading provider of analytic applications
for the e-business value chain. Informatica is acquiring Influence Software for roughly $80 million in a stock transaction
that will be treated as a pooling of interests. Th (...)
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Informatica Heads for E-Business. M. Reed - January 5, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments Event Summary. "PALO ALTO, Calif.,
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2000-01-05
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This article continues the examination of tools that a vendor may supply that can make the implementation of an ERP package
easier for your project team, end users, and IT department. Read on to see what tools you may want to have in your toolbox
before proceeding with the implementation. (...)
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2005-03-17
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
system may find a viable option in Excel-based BI and analytics tools that leverage add-in applications from vendors.
(...)
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
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2005-06-22
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Informix® Corporation, has announced an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport
(ETT) of metadata. The DTD is designed to allow metadata sharing between different vendors’ products using the open XML standard. (...)
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... XML DTD will enable more complete metadata sharing, easing business-to-business collaboration and facilitating
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2000-05-22