Oracle Makes Aggressive Moves in Open Source (AMR)

Oracle chief Larry Ellison indicated last week that more acquisitions were in the offing, specifically for middleware and business intelligence (BI) software. Immediately thereafter, the open source community was abuzz that Oracle was targeting three acquisitions in that space: JBOSS, a middleware provider; Sleepycat Software, an embeddable database provider; and Zend Technologies, maker of a PHP development tool for server-based HTML scripting.

Focus on Data Quality in BI Motivates Business Objects Buy (Gartner)

By buying Firstlogic, Business Objects will expand its data integration offerings. But the vendor's positioning of the purchase begins to take it outside its comfort and credibility zone of business intelligence (BI).

Business Intelligence Software Market to Reach $3 Billion in 2009, Says Gartner (Tekrati)

New license revenue in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) software market is poised for constant growth through 2009 when the market is projected to reach $3 billion, according to the latest forecasts by Gartner, Inc. The analysts estimate the BI market will reach $2.5 billion , a six percent increase from 2005.

'Analytics' buzzword needs careful definition (InfoWorld)

Definition of analytics is a broad one, leading to confusion among enterprise users

Gartner forecasts growing BI market (InfoWorld)

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.

CIOs will see pressure for BI from executives (InfoWorld)

The enxt five years will a ten-fold increase in the amount of information businesses see from IT systems, Gartner predicts

The Financial Impact of Business Analytics (IDC)

Businesses are undergoing a fundamental shift in the way they make decisions. In today's
environment, decision making occurs more frequently and at all levels of an organization. It is no
longer a semiregular senior management activity.

Business Objects Extends Enterprise Offering with Data Integration (IDC)

The major business intelligence (BI) vendors are extending their footprints with packaged analytic applications on the front end and data integration facilities on the back end to compete for enterprise-level sales in BI, data warehousing, and the emerging business performance management (BPM) space. With its acquisition of extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendor Acta Technologies, Business Objects now has the end-to-end metadata management and packaged data mart capabilities that it needs to fully implement its analytic applications strategy and provide an enterprise data warehouse solution. IDC believes that this acquisition was a good strategic move for Business Objects ...

Business Objects Rated Top Analytic Application Vendor (Bloor)

BPM pulls IT and finance together (vnunet)

IT Week: As director of industry solutions for business performance management [BPM] vendor Cartesis, can you say how demand is growing? ...

Portal Excellence Awards (DMReview)

Each year at DCI's Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference, customers and their solution providers compete in the Portal Excellence Awards. At the November 2005 event in Miami, winners were announced in four categories: Best Customer or Partner Portal, Best Employee Portal, Best Content Management System and Best Knowledge Management System.

Customer Intelligence: Suddenly, It's 2006 (DM Review Magazine)

Last year, when I had my first child, someone said to me, "The nights are long and the years are short." Well, the nights were extremely long, and they were loud, and sometimes they smelled really bad. Long nights typically led to long days, and I thought I would never get eight hours of sleep again. But I didn't truly understand the second part of the statement until I woke up on November 24 and realized that it was already Thanksgiving. Where did the year go?