Seagate software is giving two of its major business intelligence software products away for free, in the hope that the move will encourage widespread adoption of its software. Donald McComick, Seagate's product director in EMEA, said: "Currently...
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000, its flagship database product, to manufacturing and announced that more than 100 enterprise customers will be going live with the system over the next three months.
Companies will face a skills shortfall as business intelligence requirements jump three fold in the next three years. And the business intelligence crisis will be further exacerbated by a misunderstanding between CEOs and IT departments on what...
Hagerty pointed to two companies - Crystal Decisions and Actuate - as rivals in the business-reporting, or business intelligence, niche that might feel the most "heartburn" from Microsoft's plans. But when people are buying business intelligence...
Business intelligence (BI) solutions have all too often disappointed - compartmentalised and piecemeal in nature - which is why Butler Group founder Martin Butler is advocating integrated BI (IBI). The promise and attraction of business...
Meanwhile, a number of vendors are participating in an Eclipse open source project: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, which was founded by Actuate. In about a month, the company is expected to release a component for doing analysis and...