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 ...