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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
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2003-05-26
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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...
Published:
2001-04-10
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Compare the total cost of ownership of business intelligence (BI) solutions.Find the software information you're looking for.Free
white papers! For many companies, traditional business intelligence (BI) software is costly and resource-intensive. So are
open source alternatives that require significant con (...)
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Compare the total cost of ownership of business intelligence (BI) solutions.Find the software information you're looking
for.Free white papers! For...
Published:
2010-04-05
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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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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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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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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...
Published:
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...
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2003-08-19
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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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... Event Summary. "PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA), the
company whose software provides the infrastructure powering ...
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2000-01-05
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Exact has established a global infrastructure and a network of offices offering direct support, sales, and services with
the aim of providing customers a consistent level of service. It is also working toward the emergence of a new category of
software that tackles enterprise relationship management, gr (...)
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Exact Software--Working Diligently Towards the "One Exact" Synergy Part Four: Market Impact Continued.
... Macola Becomes Exact Software. ...
Published:
2004-03-01
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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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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that the
business needs of the...
Published:
2005-07-20
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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) hosts quarterly World Conferences to help organizations involved in data warehousing,
business intelligence, and performance management. These conferences supply a wealth of information aimed at improving organizational
decision-making, optimizing performance, and ac (...)
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... had the opportunity to evaluate software, compare vendor ... their
technical platforms and BI environments ... This can include comparing
their current environment with ...
Published:
2006-10-25
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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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... business intelligence (BI) solution, but is open source ready for the big BI
market? The FOSS and the COSS World Open source software providers have been ...
Published:
2010-03-31
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In 2003, Exact Software announced the general availability of Macola Enterprise Suite (ES), the latest version of the company's
ERP solution, which goes beyond traditional ERP solutions’ scope by allowing its users to define business rules, workflow,
and exception alerts and events. Also, Exact Event (...)
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In 2003, Exact Software announced the general availability of Macola Enterprise Suite (ES), the latest version of the company's
ERP solution, whic...
Published:
2004-02-27
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Although glitch-plagued software implementations are nothing new, the growing number of brand-name firms reporting big troubles
with their multimillion-dollar projects is starting to look like a Who's Who of the Fortune 500. (...)
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Although glitch-plagued software implementations are nothing new, the growing number of brand-name firms reporting big troubles
with their multimi...
Published:
1999-11-10
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An application product can never provide competitive advantage by itself, it is a function of how and how much is implemented.
A good implementation of a commodity software product can give you a short-term advantage until the competition catches up. (...)
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An application product can never provide competitive advantage by itself, it is a function of how and how much is implemented.
A good implementa...
Published:
2003-09-11
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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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... that constitute the material of a computer system’s ... is making it
possible for enterprise software to move ... This contrasts the traditional BI
approach of a ...
Published:
2010-09-01
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Lawson Software, a major privately held provider of enterprise resource planning software, today announced the delivery of
its enterprise software applications for IBM's DB2 Universal Database. This availability extends Lawson's support of the IBM
DB2 Universal Database to encompass IBM Netfinity, RS/600 (...)
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Lawson Software, a major privately held provider of enterprise resource planning software, today announced the delivery of
its enterprise software...
Published:
2000-01-10
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J.D. Edwards recently announced support for financial reporting solutions from FRx Software. This software makes it possible
to consolidate information from multiple databases, platforms, and servers to provide a complete financial picture. (...)
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JD Edwards recently announced support for financial reporting solutions from FRx Software. This software makes it possible
to consolidate inform...
Published:
2000-01-14
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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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... About the Author. Olin Thompson is a principal of Process ERP Partners. He has over twenty-five years
experience as an executive in the software industry. ...
Published:
2005-05-09