By Merv Adrian on September 20, 2010
IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different […]
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By Merv Adrian on June 10, 2010
In April, I was critical of the BI messaging I heard from Microsoft – as told, it was long on benefit adjectives and short on architectural clarity. But things have changed since then, and the Combined Tech Ed/Business Intelligence Conference made that very clear. Do I see more clarity because I now know more of […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, BI, BIDS, BizTalk, business intelligence, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Data mining, DMX, drm, excel, Forefront, ibm, Industry Trends, IT, master data management, master data services, MDS, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, Office, OLAP, oracle, Performance Point, PMML, predictive analytics, Reporting Services, SAP BW, SAS, sharepoint, silverlight, spss, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Teradata, TSQL, Windows Server
By R "Ray" Wang on March 31, 2010
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Ashesh Badani became Sr. […]
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By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on December 1, 2009
In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and […]
Posted in Business | Tagged 2010 predictions, analytics, business intelligence, Business Objects, cognos, Enterprise resource planning, excel, hadoop, hyperion, ibm, mashups, master data management, ms excel, performance management, predictive analysis, SaaS, salesforce.com, sharepoint, spss, varicent, virtualization, workday |
