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Update: SAP to buy Business Objects for $6.78 billion SAP has agreed to buy Business Objects for about €4.8 billion ($6.78 billion), a surprise move that breaks with SAP's traditional strategy of avoiding large company acquisitions. Customers upset with Google over Urchin Web analytics software A major upgrade to Google's Urchin Web analytics server software is almost three years late and customers who bought the product worry that Google's silence and inaction may mean it will be discontinued. October 4, 9:19 a.m. PDT Adobe teams with Business Objects to fight Microsoft Adobe Systems is teaming up with Business Objects to add business-intelligence capabilities to rich Internet applications (RIAs). The companies plan to announce a partnership at the Adobe MAX 2007 North America user conference, which kicks off Monday in Chicago. October 1, 3:49 a.m. PDT Business Objects provides BI software on-demand Business Objects has started to roll out a full suite of business intelligence (BI) software in the form of an online service, initially for customers using Salesforce.com applications. September 17, 5:05 a.m. PDT Business Objects launches EPM suite for CFOs Business Objects released new software Wednesday that combines EPM (enterprise performance management), BI, and data integration into a comprehensive suite aimed at CFOs and business finance managers. September 12, 11:16 a.m. PDT Cognos to pay $339 million for Applix Business performance software vendor Cognos has agreed to buy Applix, a developer of performance analysis software, and plans to integrate the companies' products by early next year. September 5, 7:05 a.m. PDT Ingres adds open source BI appliance to Icebreaker database Ingres has delivered a business intelligence appliance of its Icebreaker database and Linux combination, after teaming up with JasperSoft for its open source business intelligence (BI) suite. August 22, 7:44 a.m. PDT Business Objects, Thomson partner on SaaS This week's announcement of a joint venture between business intelligence vendor Business Objects and one of the world's leading sources for financial data, Thomson Financial, goes well beyond a simple partnership deal, say industry analysts.  August 21, 10:35 a.m. PDT Ingres names new CEO, says appliance servers coming soon Open-source database vendor Ingres appointed a new CEO on Wednesday and said its new appliance servers, which are slightly behind schedule, will be available soon. August 8, 8:45 a.m. PDT OSA debuts CCV interoperability prototype Nonprofit vendor consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) made good on its April promise to deliver a prototype demonstrating interoperability between open source and proprietary business applications in time for LinuxWorld this week. August 7, 9:18 a.m. PDT Business Objects tries Web 2.0, gets mixed reviews Business Objects SA is inviting customers to try out prototype Web 2.0 applications to enhance its BI (business-intelligence) software, although the tools are getting mixed reviews. August 3, 9:30 a.m. PDT Weird tech: Raw fish ID When James Allard lived in Japan as a student in the 1990s, he frequented kaiten sushi restaurants, which keep prices low by circulating dishes on a conveyor belt rather than making nigiri, sashimi, and sushi rolls to order. The problem he observed was that dishes stayed on the belt too long, losing freshness and becoming unappetizing. July 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: SAP profit climbs 8 percent on new license growth SAP reported an 8 percent jump in its second-quarter net income on Thursday, helped by a sharp increase in revenue from new software licenses. July 19, 5:41 a.m. PDT Microsoft pushes OBAs to take Office to next level Microsoft has been quietly adding to the cache of reference applications it hopes will help transform Microsoft Office 2007 from a mere productivity suite to a collaboration tool. June 28, 5:26 a.m. PDT JasperSoft BI suite speaks more languages JasperSoft Corp.'s open-source business intelligence products are speaking more languages than ever since the launch of an internationalization project in January. June 12, 5:02 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: John Alber In recent years, corporate lawyers long accustomed to charging an hourly rate have found themselves facing client demands for discounts, shared risk deals (where fees are based on results), and flat rates. “Clients now treat law firms as they do other suppliers: They make us respond to RFPs, apply rate pressure, and make us compete,” says John Alber, technology partner (the legal industry’s term for a CTO) at the global law firm Bryan Cave. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Business Objects steps up midmarket BI focus Business Objects has released the second of three planned versions of its Crystal Decisions business intelligence software suite aimed at midmarket users. June 5, 1:13 p.m. PDT SAP to lose another key U.S. executive SAP confirmed Tuesday that Aliza Peleg, managing director of SAP Labs U.S., will leave the business applications company by the end of next month. Her departure follows that of Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, who resigned from SAP on April 1. May 23, 5:34 a.m. PDT Business Objects to go on demand all the way Responding to growing customer demand for hosted services, Business Objects plans to offer its entire range of products via on-demand subscriptions, according to a company executive. May 22, 8:40 a.m. PDT Business Objects buys Inxight Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance application, and begun testing an on-demand market information service, the company announced Tuesday at customer event in Berlin. May 22, 6:37 a.m. PDT Tibco to acquire Spotfire in BI move Responding to growing customer demand for software to help analyze critical business information quickly and effectively, Tibco Software has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Spotfire. May 2, 7:36 a.m. PDT Update: Business Objects to buy financial software vendor Business Objects has agreed to buy Cartesis, a maker of finance and performance management software, for €225 million in cash, or about $300 million, the companies announced Monday. April 23, 7:48 a.m. PDT Next OpenOffice release to include Pentaho BI Open-source business intelligence software vendor Pentaho is hoping a new tie-up unveiled Thursday with the OpenOffice.org community and Sun Microsystems will bring its BI offerings to the attention of many more new users. April 19, 5:23 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 tools inspire data-sharing software Businesses that use ECM (enterprise content management) software to manage data could soon be giving employees more control over that data, as application providers are inspired by Web 2.0 tools like wikis, mashups and data tags. April 18, 9:43 a.m. PDT Microsoft: No acquisitions planned in ERP area Microsoft, with its hands full integrating its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) line, does not plan to acquire any of the smaller vendors competing with the software giant in the midmarket area, a senior executive said. April 10, 9:37 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Rethinking business intelligence It can seem like a no-win situation. Business execs want more reports to glean insight on how to manage the company. So IT invests in new BI point solutions — even as it spends more and more time cleansing data and producing reports — only to be asked for changes again, since the reports IT delivers keep missing the mark. April 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Recipe for disaster There have been so many food contamination episodes in the past several months -- tainted spinach at the supermarket, bad green onions at Taco Bell, salmonella in our beloved peanut butter, courtesy of Peter Pan -- that I decided to do a little digging and see whether technology can take a role in the prevention of future outbreaks. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM aims for midmarket with BI appliance server IBM hopes to bring BI to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects SA, industry sources said. March 1, 1:16 p.m. PST Update: Oracle to buy Hyperion for $3 billion Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash, it said on Thursday. March 1, 9:10 a.m. PST MySQL, JasperSoft sign joint reselling agreement Open-source database vendor MySQL and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoft on Tuesday announced a joint reselling agreement. February 27, 7:37 a.m. PST SAP acquires Pilot Software In a move to strengthen its portfolio of analytic applications, SAP has agreed to acquire privately held Pilot Software, a maker of strategy management software based in Mountain View, California. February 20, 4:25 a.m. PST Vendors form open-source business alliance Ten leading open-source software vendors have created a nonprofit consortium, dubbed the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), to push the adoption of more open-source technology in the business world. February 14, 8:36 a.m. PST Oracle ships new BI product, Data Integrator On Monday, Oracle unveiled an addition to its Fusion middleware, Oracle Data Integrator, to help users quickly bring the huge amounts of information in different databases and applications across their organizations together in a single place. February 5, 9:52 a.m. PST Business Objects product targets midmarket French software maker Business Objects released the first of three new versions of its business intelligence software tailored for small to medium-size companies, a market area poised for growth, the company said Monday. February 5, 5:12 a.m. PST Oracle extends reach of its enterprise search software Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software it debuted last year emphasizing new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems. February 5, 4:59 a.m. PST Integrien finds problems, reduces troubleshooting Integrien this week will unveil capabilities in its flagship systems management software that it says will enable IT staffs to more quickly diagnose the cause of application performance problems and reduce post-mortem troubleshooting. January 31, 12:26 p.m. PST SailPoint charts compliance waters SailPoint Technologies is a new company that on Tuesday will announce software designed to help enterprises reduce business risk and become complaint by better understanding identity data. January 30, 11:23 a.m. PST Triumfant's tool seeks out IT system problems Aiming to ease the enterprise help desk’s burden, Triumfant on Tuesday will announce Resolution Manager, an automated problem and resolution program based on analytics. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST JasperSoft's open-source BI goes international Open-source BI software vendor JasperSoft is set to unveil the final piece in its BI suite, JasperETL, after signing its first full-blown OEM deal with French vendor Talend. At the same time, the U.S. company will commit to complete internationalization of its entire BI suite. January 29, 3:32 p.m. PST Oracle sneaks out E-Business Suite 12 Oracle has quietly released E-Business Suite Release 12 to customers a few days in advance of a big launch event planned for next week in New York City. January 26, 4:36 a.m. PST Offshore attrition on the rise Offshoring -- especially for BPO (business process outsourcing) -- is about to hit a wall. After all, despite being a relatively new phenomenon made possible by advances in communications, it remains subject to one timeless principle of economics: supply and demand. January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Cognos acquires dashboard specialist Business intelligence software vendor Cognos purchased privately held Celequest, a business intelligence company with expertise in real-time operational dashboards, as a way to attract more mid-market and departmental customers. January 17, 8:43 a.m. PST HP continues to put software house in order In the midst of a companywide restructuring effort, Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in an ongoing reorganization of its software operation. The vendor has established a new unit to bring together its business intelligence (BI) and information management expertise, which is currently spread out across the company. January 17, 4:24 a.m. PST SAP warns of Q4 sales slowdown SAP's stock dropped more than 10 percent on Thursday as the business software vendor warned of lower-than-expected revenue growth for its most recent quarter. January 12, 5:14 a.m. PST BI vendor MicroStrategy eyes growth for 2007 As one of its resolutions for 2007, MicroStrategy plans to enhance the visualization and performance capabilities of its BI software as well as grow its headcount and geographical presence. January 9, 12:18 p.m. PST Applications: SaaS breaks down the walls The one major exception to business as usual in the enterprise software arena for 2006 was SaaS (software as a service), which under the de facto leadership of Salesforce.com demonstrated that a hosted service can offer the kinds of capabilities once reserved for the giants of the enterprise software industry. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST BI vendor fills up with holiday spirit Baffled about which wine to pick up en route to an important holiday party where you happen to know they'll be serving elk? Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech International AB may be able to help you resolve that thorny little problem with its wine selector application. December 13, 9:51 a.m. PST HP buys data management services company Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire IT services company Knightsbridge Solutions Holding for an undisclosed sum. December 12, 5:47 a.m. PST IBM India integrates separate data repositories IBM's India Research Laboratory has developed technology for retrieval and integration of information from both structured and unstructured data. December 6, 7:08 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Open Text readies Livelink ECM 10 Amid the ongoing consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) software market, Canadian player Open Text hopes to remain both an independent entity and relevant by tightening its partnerships with vendors that provide more base-level ECM. November 13, 9:48 a.m. PST IBM expands BI alliance with Business Objects IBM is increasing the scope of its existing relationship with business intelligence (BI) software vendor Business Objects with a particular focus on midmarket customers. November 2, 4:13 a.m. PST Business Objects 'not up for sale' Despite evidence that Business Objects SA was once a takeover target of Oracle Corp., the business intelligence specialist has clung to its independence through a period of consolidation in the software industry. And that's how Business Objects Chief Executive Officer John Schwarz wants things to stay. October 26, 10:08 a.m. PDT IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT The maturing of BI Business intelligence software is evolving into its older sibling, business performance management, a combination of planning, budgeting, reporting, and benchmarking tools, according to the father of BI, Howard Dresner. At the same time, the main obstacle to BI or BPM adoption remains cultural rather than technological, he said. September 22, 7:04 a.m. PDT Open-source startup rounds out its BI offering With its latest purchase under its belt, open-source software startup Pentaho will be able to offer a complete business intelligence (BI) suite, according to Richard Daley, the company's chief executive officer. September 20, 5:14 a.m. PDT BI consolidation rumors boost Business Objects' stock Business Objects SA's share price surged in Paris Thursday morning, as rumors swirled of a takeover bid from IBM Corp. or Oracle Corp. September 14, 11:52 a.m. PDT Update: Business Objects to buy ALG Software Business Objects is stepping up its efforts in the area of corporate performance management software with an acquisition and the integration of some existing applications with its business intelligence suite. September 13, 6:31 a.m. PDT Salesforce.com highlights analytics Salesforce.com is drawing particular attention to the analytics customization capabilities it plans to offer in the next version of its hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, known as Salesforce Winter '07. September 13, 4:25 a.m. PDT SAP launches enterprise search application SAP AG unwrapped its Enterprise Search application to help customers conduct specific secure queries of structured and unstructured data held in both SAP and non-SAP software. September 12, 11:55 a.m. PDT Microsoft partners with Satyam in Asia Microsoft and Satyam Computer Services opened two business intelligence software testing and development centers in Asia on Tuesday, hoping to usher in a new era for Chinese financial applications. September 5, 6:09 a.m. PDT BEA snaps up metadata registry tech When Mercury Interactive plunked down $105 million for Systinet last January, that left just two prominent pure-play vendors of SOA registry/repositories standing: Infravio and Flashline. That number was cut by half last week, when BEA Systems bought Flashline for an undisclosed sum. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle gains more analytics with Sigma buy Oracle plans to add more real-time predictive analytics to its business intelligence, middleware, and applications after acquiring intellectual property assets from Sigma Dynamics, a specialist in the field. August 24, 8:49 a.m. PDT Accenture: Investments in analytical tools pay off Enterprises are increasingly investing in analytics technologies, such as customer relationship management, data warehousing and business intelligence software, and investments in these technologies are paying off, according to new market research released Monday by Accenture. July 31, 6:15 a.m. PDT Enterprise search vendors bet heavily on BI The intersection of BI and enterprise search is seeing more traffic all the time. Already this year, Google, IBM, and X1 have released new products, and Oracle promises to do so later this year. Here is a short list of solutions from market leaders that should be considered in the evaluation phase. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Business Objects CEO calls revenue 'disappointing' Business Objects SA's preliminary results for the second quarter are "disappointing and below our expectations," Chief Executive Officer John Schwartz said on Thursday. The business intelligence software vendor failed to reach license revenue targets because it is taking longer than anticipated to close some large deals, he said. July 7, 4:37 a.m. PDT Microsoft to update Office for business intelligence Microsoft plans to clarify its business intelligence strategy with the unveiling of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a new addition to its Office lineup, on Tuesday. June 6, 12:01 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Agassi: SAP to 'compete like gentlemen' SAP has been strengthening its partnerships with Microsoft and IBM while competing against Microsoft in the small to mid-size business (SMB) applications market and advancing in the middleware software market where IBM has a noticeable presence. May 22, 9:36 a.m. PDT SAP releases BI accelerator SAP officially released on Wednesday its business intelligence (BI) accelerator which it co-developed with Intel. The two companies first announced they were working on the analytical engine a year ago. May 18, 5:35 a.m. PDT SAP heralds Duet 'breakthrough' Bill McDermott is excited about the direction business software vendor SAP is headed. And for someone who has led the company's U.S. operations to 14 consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth, he has every right to be. May 17, 4:43 a.m. PDT Business Objects helps Google search BI data Business Objects plans to make it easier for users of Google's search appliance and desktop search software to find and view corporate data stored in its business intelligence systems, it announced Tuesday. May 16, 5:26 a.m. PDT New models, challenges for open source businesses An open source software company is something of a paradox. On the one hand, it has to convince customers that software is increasingly becoming commoditized, that proprietary software is limiting and expensive, and that standards-based, community-developed and -supported open source software is the way to go. On the other hand, an open source company has to persuade those same customers that they should pay it for the use of that same software. May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Business Objects launches data management tools Business Objects launched new tools for data federation and metadata management on Wednesday. Both tools are intended to improve the quality and consistency of information provided by business intelligence reporting systems by presenting data from multiple sources through a common interface. May 3, 4:25 a.m. PDT EMC banking billions on ILM EMC Corp. is investing US$1.2 billion this year to develop and acquire technologies geared to help businesses share, protect, manage and secure data, said Chief Executive Officer and President Joe Tucci in his keynote address at the EMC World conference in Boston Monday. April 24, 10:12 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Next-gen RFID tools expand the market Despite the hype, the truth is that RFID deployments made little headway in 2005. New standards, prohibitive costs, and the lack of upper-level business context left most companies tuned out to this much-ballyhooed technology. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source BI tool to target enterprise customers The open source software model will continue its assault on traditional applications deployed by the enterprise when Pentaho unveils Business Intelligence Professional Edition Platform next week. April 7, 2:15 p.m. PDT Microsoft buys ProClarity to bolster BI strategy Microsoft said Monday it has agreed to acquire ProClarity as a way to continue to develop its portfolio of business intelligence (BI) software. April 3, 12:35 p.m. PDT Sun boosts StorageTek business analytics software Sun Microsystems Inc. has upgraded its business analytics software for storage with new reporting enhancements, it said Monday. April 3, 10:31 a.m. PDT Clementine 10 reinforces defensive analytics When I last reviewed SPSS’s Clementine BA (business analytics) application in 2004, I found great virtue in its effective graphical interface and its capability to systemize the building and storage of analytical routines for later reuse or reassembly. March 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Cognos to launch enterprise search engine Cognos today joined the fray with those companies that seek to offer the enterprise better behind-the-firewall search capabilities. In recent weeks, Oracle launched a new in-house search engine and Google a new enterprise search appliance. March 27, 12:45 p.m. PST Oracle rolls out BI bundles Oracle is making a major push into BI software with three bundles of existing products. The company anticipates ramping up its BI software presence in the same way that it built up its middleware business, said Oracle President Charles Phillips. March 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle adds 'new leg' to business with BI Oracle is making a major push into business intelligence (BI) software with three bundles of existing products, the vendor announced Wednesday. The company anticipates ramping up its BI software presence in the same way that it built up its middleware business, according to Oracle President Charles Phillips. March 22, 7:56 a.m. PST Microsoft unveils mid-market BI software Microsoft unveiled new business intelligence (BI) software Wednesday that was designed to let mid-market companies use analytics and scorecards to study business data through various organizational roles. March 16, 8:20 a.m. PST Lawson's ERP upgrade adds SOA capabilities Lawson Software has announced a new version of its ERP applications that includes SOA (services-oriented architecture) capabilities delivered through a middleware partnership with IBM. March 16, 5:34 a.m. PST Bring business analysis to streaming events It’s no secret to IT people, or any business executive worth his Beemer, that an amazing wealth of actionable business intelligence is coursing through enterprise applications, databases, and even system logs nearly every moment of every day. The problem has not only been plucking the meaningful events from the unimportant ones but also finding the often seemingly unrelated patterns between them, and doing so before it’s too late to make a difference -- before the supplier raises the price, the shopper leaves the Web site, or the scammer transfers the funds. March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM gets closer to Cognos with global SOA alliance IBM Corp. and analytics software vendor Cognos Inc. have signed a new global strategic alliance around service-oriented architecture (SOA), the companies announced Tuesday. The relationship builds on an already close partnership between the two firms to include more joint development, sales and marketing in the SOA space. March 7, 10:10 a.m. PST In Brief: IBM readies SOA packages IBM at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas later this month plans to help integrators and ISVs build SOAs based on the company's WebSphere platform. March 1, 5:35 a.m. PST Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think. February 17, 4:15 p.m. PST Speeding retrieval with in-memory data management My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its charms. February 15, 3:00 a.m. PST MicroStrategy supports open-source databases MicroStrategy has certified the latest version of its business-intelligence software to work with two popular open-source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, it announced on Tuesday. February 14, 7:42 a.m. PST Business Objects buys Firstlogic for data quality tools Business Objects, the provider of business intelligence software, agreed to buy Firstlogic, which makes enterprise data quality software, for $69 million, Business Objects said. February 9, 4:28 a.m. PST Gartner forecasts growing BI market Licensing revenue for BI (business intelligence) software is expected to rise from $2.5 billion this year to $3 billion by 2009, with the fastest growth in Latin America and Asia, Gartner said Tuesday. February 7, 7:30 a.m. PST 'Analytics' buzzword needs careful definition One of the buzzwords around BI (business intelligence) software -- analytics -- has been through the linguistic grinder, with vendors and customers using it to describe very different functions. February 7, 4:57 a.m. PST Nike BI project seeks standardization Nike Inc., the shoe manufacturer that has experienced robust revenue growth in recent years, has tapped BI (business-intelligence) applications to arrive at "one vision of the truth" for analyzing its financial health. February 6, 9:30 a.m. PST CIOs will see pressure for BI from executives Businesses will face a 10-fold increase in the amount of information from their IT systems over the next five years, an influx of data that will pose tough decisions for smoothly using BI (business-intelligence) software. February 6, 7:05 a.m. PST Microsoft expands IP licensing program Microsoft Corp. is expanding a program under which technologies it has developed in its research labs are either licensed to startup companies or offered in exchange for profit sharing or an ownership stake. January 30, 4:09 p.m. PST U.S. Department of Justice blasts Microsoft on compliance The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general slammed Microsoft Corp. in court papers Monday for lagging behind in compliance with some stipulations of the government's antitrust agreement with the company. January 24, 11:50 a.m. PST > Applications > Business > Data management |
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