| EnterpriseDB Open Source Oracle Wannabe Still Searching Identity
Since its inception a few years ago as the "Oracle-compatible database company" EnterpriseDB is still burning cash with no publicly shared revenue or profitability figures. New Jersey-based company announced today the availability of GridSQL for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. Their press release says: "The new product enables OLAP applications to seamlessly leverage clusters of inexpensive commodity servers while appearing as a single database to the applications. Using this capability, enterprises can easily meet complex data warehousing and business intelligence challenges at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions." When you compare the birth and the toddler years of EnterpriseDB with, let's say, Marc Fleury's JBoss, it does not give the impression that EntepriseDB is the next open source success story and a $375 million acquisition target.
Business Intelligence in the Balance: IBM tackles BI's complex future with dynamic warehousing IBM's dynamic ...
Put the right information in the right hands at the right time: that's been the mantra of business intelligence (BI) since the beginning. But today, the parameters are changing for how the BI and data warehousing (DW) community delivers on that goal. What's the right information when the sources, types, and sheer quantity of data are increasing all the time? Who should have this information — and who shouldn't? What exactly is "the right time" when business processes involve multiple users and systems that need to collaborate across the globe? The answers change, which means that how an organization meets BI's defining goal must also change. Information technology has to support — not hinder — business agility. After experiencing the IT challenges that come with mergers and acquisitions, new product lines, new supplier relationships, regulatory compliance pressures, and the incorporation of whole new populations of users (and their devices), many information managers and DBAs recognize that BI and DW systems can't be fixed in concrete.
Life Fitness Converts to Oracle(R) Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (Map) - To support its growing business intelligence (BI) initiatives, Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corp. (NYSE: BC), has consolidated its BI and data warehousing platforms on Oracle. Life Fitness selected Oracle(R) Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (EE) to replace its existing BI solution and is upgrading its data warehouse to Oracle Database 10g Release 2. Life Fitness is the global leader in designing and manufacturing a full line of reliable, high-quality fitness equipment for commercial and home use. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO) Several key factors motivated Life Fitness to reevaluate its BI platform strategy. Specifically, Life Fitness sought to take advantage of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE's architectural advantages, information delivery capabilities, and its integration with Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware products -- all of which Life Fitness relies upon.
Media Advisory: Harte-Hanks Trillium Software(R) to Host Webinar Showcasing UMB Bank Data Governance Success Story
What: Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks (NYSE:HHS - News), and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, and its customer UMB Bank, winner of the 2007 TDWI [The Data Warehousing Institute] Business Intelligence Best Practices Award in the data governance category, will host a complimentary one-hour Web seminar to discuss how UMB Bank is harnessing technology to succeed in delivering high quality customer data to all arms of its business. .
MarketWatch: Oracle 11g Commoditizes OLAP
Oracle has announced its next generation database platform Oracle 11g that packs in nearly 500 enhancements and new features, promising improved performance, accelerated change management, higher scalability, easier administration, and reduced cost. But what's in it for business intelligence and data warehousing? .
Operational BI: The Evolution Of Business Intelligence
A white paper released this week by The Data Warehousing Institute shows organizations slowly moving toward operational business intelligence. But the journey is sure to present a number business and technical challenges.
By Antone Gonsalves
The concept of business intelligence is changing. Once the tools of only tech-savvy business analysts, BI is slowly evolving into a technology that merges analytics and operational processes into a unified whole. But the road toward operational BI is sure to present a number of business and technical challenges, many of which are outlined in a white paper released this week by The Data Warehousing Institute. TDWI believes operational BI is the "turning point" in the evolution of business intelligence, and defines it as the ability to deliver information and insights to a broad range of users within hours or minutes for the purpose of managing or optimizing operational or time-sensitive business processes.
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