| 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.
Sybase Showcases Leadership and Innovation at Annual TechWave Conference
SYBASE TECHWAVE 2007 CONFERENCE -- Developers, database administrators, IT managers, sales professionals and executives from 40 countries around the world are meeting in Las Vegas this week for the annual Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY - News) TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference. This year Sybase is highlighting the next phase of its Unwired Enterprise strategy -- taking mobility to the last mile by simplifying the development of mobility solutions to reach beyond the enterprise to the consumer, and delivering broader and deeper business intelligence anytime, anywhere. "I am proud of Sybase's continued technical innovation and focus on ways to help speed and simplify unwiring the enterprise," said John Chen, chairman, CEO and president of Sybase. "TechWave attendees have the opportunity to learn from their peers through real-world examples of businesses that are leveraging Sybase's information mobility and management solutions to create a competitive edge -- today and in the future." Innovator Award Winners On Wednesday, August 8, Sybase will announce the winners of its 2007 Innovator Awards to partners and customers who have demonstrated the most innovative use of Sybase and Sybase iAnywhere technologies that enable themselves, or their customers, to take advantage of the benefits of the unwired enterprise by utilizing enterprise and mobile infrastructure, development and integration and software solutions.
Columbia Valley Community Health Trusts Business Objects to Help Save Patient Lives
SAN JOSE, Calif. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ - News; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Columbia Valley Community Health (CVCH) has selected Business Objects Crystal Decisions® to facilitate and improve case management and team-orientated care, impacting critical patient care to help save lives. The announcement underscores the human impact Business Objects solutions have on customers, as the company strives to transform the way the world works through intelligent information. .
John Keeley Buys Foster Wheeler Ltd., Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., MB Financial Inc. , Sells Home Inns & Hotels ...
John Keeley likes to invest in small caps with special situations. Since inception in 1993, his Small Cap Value Fund has gain more than 16.5% a year, while Russell 2000 gained 10.5% a year. "Going forward, we continue to be excited about a number of restructuring opportunities emerging from our primary investment themes." These are his buys and sells during the second quarter. John Keeley buys Foster Wheeler Ltd., Orient-express Hotels Ltd., Mb Financial Inc. (md), Ampco-pittsburgh Corp., Harsco Corp., Wintrust Financial Corp., Ingersoll-rand Co. Ltd., Arch Chemicals Inc., Hercules Offshore, Llc, Tyco Electronics, Rite Aid Corp., Cypress Semiconductor Corporat, Baidu.com, Inc., Vimpel-communications, Terra Nitrogen Co. Lp, Cameco Corp., Crocs, Inc., Helmerich & Payne Inc., Consol Energy Inc., Rex Stores Corp., Helix Energy Solutns, Abb Ltd., , Copa Holdings, S.a.
Free Advanced Data Cleansing Component Integrates With SQL Server SSIS
AMB Dataminers, a market leader in data profiling/quality, is offering its Microsoft SQL Server SSIS Cyclone Data Quality, De-Duping and Data Flow products at no cost. AMB is also announcing the JAVA Unix platform of its PDM Suite, available by end of 3rd Quarter 2007. .
Giving an Obsessive Baseball Web Site Its Due
One of the wonders of the transitional time in which we live is the willingness of journalists to treat the Internet as both a vast, autonomous intelligence, and as a public utility. If you read a lot of sports writing, you'll inevitably come across a writer sourcing information to the Internet as such, a really curious habit that probably demands the attentions of a doctoral candidate in anthropology. Just think of what could be written if we applied this standard more broadly. "Alex Rodriguez is the product of an alien crossbreeding program, according to the bar," a report might read. "David Wright's opposite-field power can be attributed to his habit of snorting the powdery remnants of mummified Egyptian rulers, according to the library," another might read.
Welcome to Open Source 2.0
There is no doubt that 3 February 1998 was a historic day. For it was then, at a meeting in Mountain View, that a small group led by Eric Raymond came up with the term “open source" as an alternative to the description “free software". The question is, will history count 21 June 2007 as another such pivotal moment – the day that Open Source 2.0 was born? The meeting in Mountain View was held because some believed it was time to move on from Richard Stallman's crusade for freedom through free software, and to adopt a more pragmatic approach. Doing so, the argument went, would make free software/open source more attractive to business users who were more interested in efficiency than ideology. For Stallman, of course, this re-branding exercise was little less than a betrayal of everything he had fought for.
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