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On September 27, a group of vendors including Oracle, IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Hyperion Solutions announced the submission of
a metadata interchange standard to the OMG standards body. A common approach to metadata would allow products from different
vendors to interact, a problem that has vexed customers f (...)
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... with them, or refuse to interoperate with other vendor(s) for ... work
with a data movement tool, but that tool can not read the BI tool's
metadata repository. ...
Published:
1999-09-28
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CrossWorlds Software, an enterprise application integration vendor, is making it easier for customers to acquire components
and utilities with specific functionality. The vendor will create a CrossWorlds Exchange site on a subscription basis, for
$50,000 per year with additional fees for some components (...)
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... In addition, the vendor has announced that Ingersoll-Rand Corporation will use the CrossWorlds
tool to connect their Oracle e-procurement and legacy ...
Published:
2000-04-19
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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...
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2003-08-19
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operations in a transaction valued, on a fully diluted basis, at approximately $880 million, based on the
closing price of Informix common stock on November 30, 1999 (...)
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operati...
Published:
1999-12-08
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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...
Published:
2003-08-18
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The Business Intelligence (BI) RFP Template covers industry-standard functional criteria of BI that can help you easily gather
and prioritize your business needs in a simple and categorized excel document. More than a RFP template, it is a working document
that serves as a knowledge base reference through (...)
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... Material expenditure analysis; Procurement vendor analysis; Procurement ...
Monitoring and Reporting, BI RFP Template. Administrator tool monitors and manages the ...
Published:
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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...
Published:
2003-08-17
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Made2Manage focused on enriching the software ownership experience for its customers--to the point where they sometimes even
volunteer to influence prospective buyers. (...)
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Made2Manage focused on enriching the software ownership experience for its customers--to the point where they sometimes even
volunteer to influenc...
Published:
2005-02-23
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Evolutionary Technologies (ETI) has announced the newest release of their flagship product, ETI•EXTRACT Tool Suite Release
4.2. ETI·Extract has long been well known as an ETL (extract/transform/load) tool, only recently have companies begun to
realize that data extraction and consolidation are key un (...)
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... (ETI, privately held) has released ETIEXTRACT Tool Suite, Release ...
It also includes significant enhancements, which, according to the vendor, result in faster ...
Published:
2001-03-07
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Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact.
Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly
complicated. (...)
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... If each vendor tool has its own metadata store (often referred to as
a "repository"), the customer has to supply metadata information individually to each tool ...
Published:
2000-05-16
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Made2Manage focused on enriching the software ownership experience for its customers--to the point where they sometimes even
volunteer to influence prospective buyers. (...)
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Made2Manage focused on enriching the software ownership experience for its customers--to the point where they sometimes even
volunteer to influenc...
Published:
2005-02-23
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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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... Being a COSS vendor enables Jaspersoft to offer interesting ... the
use of an open source software tool. ... organizations plan to deploy corporate BI
solutions using ...
Published:
2010-03-31
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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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... Installed at more than 600 sites worldwide, SAS/Warehouse Administrator is the leading tool
to help IT professionals meet the demands of administering a ...
Published:
2000-03-13
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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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... Any ETL tool needs to be able to exchange metadata with enterprise repositories of ...
portals, and other products that will most likely come from another vendor. ...
Published:
2000-05-22
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Abstract:
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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bi tool vendor analyse:
... Installed at more than 600 sites worldwide, SAS/Warehouse Administrator is the leading tool
to help IT professionals meet the demands of administering a ...
Published:
2000-03-13
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ESD (electronic software distribution) promises to simplify software distribution and management, and eliminate ''sneakernet''
the costly, time-consuming manual process that some companies still use to do upgrades and installations. Unfortunately, the
cure often has some of the same pitfalls as the probl (...)
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ESD (electronic software distribution) promises to simplify software distribution and management, and eliminate ''sneakernet''
the costly, time-co...
Published:
2003-07-01
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Having started as a business-to-business integration provider for a few major retailers in the United Kingdom, Eqos has evolved
into a full-fledged, worldwide provider of global sourcing and supplier management solutions. (...)
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Having started as a business-to-business integration provider for a few major retailers in the United Kingdom, Eqos has evolved
into a full-fledge...
Published:
2007-10-12
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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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... All of what were formerly known as ETL tool vendors (Informatica, Ardent, Sagent, Computer
... Every vendor puts a different spin on what their product offers to a ...
Published:
2000-12-19
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Abstract:
This complete rating detail report covers the vendor or provider's responses to TEC's comprehensive research model. The report
answers your concerns about how your chosen vendors will support your requirements. (...)
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... expenditure analysis; Procurement vendor analysis; Procurement ...
Reporting , Business Intelligence (BI) Software Evaluation ... Administrator tool
monitors and manages ...
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Most enterprises fight fires with axes, fire hoses, trucks, and hordes of firemen, but the CDQM approach is a smoke detector.
It’s far less expensive to put a fire out when it’s just smoldering, rather than to extinguish a blazing house fire and then
remodel the entire house. (...)
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... A CDQM (Continuous Data Quality Management) tool provides a real-time, up-to-date scorecard
to measure data quality within the enterprise. ...
Published:
2002-10-18