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- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Is BI recession-proof, or are we just bracing for the next shoe to drop?
- The economic outlook isn't all gloom and doom. Bright spots remain in some substantial IT growth sectors--most important, in the sprawling business intelligence BI market. In the past month, we've seen solid financials--in some cases, record growth and profitability numbers--from leading BI vendors, including SAP Business Objects,...
- Tags: Analytics, MicroStrategy Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse
- This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...
- Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was
- Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Environment, Data Federation, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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- The SOA Cloud Thickens
- Beware of vendors claiming to use open standards. Pat Thibodeau, writing in ComputerWorld, describes some end-user brushes with vendors hawking Web services applications that are actually proprietary underneath the covers. These encounters were explained at a recent IBM event commemorating the second anniversary of the launching of its "on demand"...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2004-11-02
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