IT STRATEGY GUIDE: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (Forbes)

Business Intelligence (BI) systems have become a central way for organizations to identify profit centers, cut costs, and discover new business. Find out how CPM (Corporate Performance
Management) and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) factor into a BI system. Download this IT Strategy Guide now, sponsored by Siebel.

Open Source BI and Application BI: Ventana Research Call for Study Participants (Tekrati)

A vendor-sponsored Ventana Research study is exploring the use and adoption of open source Business Intelligence (BI) software, and the use and adoption of BI software to access information from ERP, CRM and other types of enterprise applications. Actuate, JasperSoft, Noetix and Pentaho are sponsoring the study.

Nucleus Research Releases Business Intelligence ROI Scorecards (Tekrati)

Business Objects topped the rankings of six Business Intelligence (BI) solutions by Nucleus Research. The new BI ROI Scorecard includes rankings for Business Objects XI, Cognos 8, Hyperion System 9, Microsoft, MicroStrategy and SAS Enterprise BI Server. Ratings are determined by Nucleus Research's assessment of five key factors contributing to the ability of a solution to deliver a positive return on investment.

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Rocky product launch tanks Cognos' Q3

Analytics software maker Cognos (Profile, Products, Articles) warned Thursday of grim financial results in its just-ended third quarter, a situation Chief Executive Officer Rob Ashe attributed to a rocky launch of Cognos' overhauled BI (business intelligence) software.

Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites, 2005 (Gartner)

Adoption of corporate performance management is steadily increasing, with more companies taking a strategic approach to implementing it. Vendors have continued to expand the scope of their solutions through development and acquisition, and leaders have emerged.

Datatel and SAS Partner to Power High-Performance Higher Education

Partnership offers dramatically enhanced business planning and decision making for institutions