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Information fuels the new economy and plays an essential role in developing and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. The demands on a business today - increased global competition, lower barriers to entry, lower profit margins - are creating an ever-increasing need for access to data. The ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time is, therefore, more important than ever; however, the sheer volume of available data makes such a proposition more challenging than ever. Organizations that are the most successful at collecting, evaluating and applying information are consistently the leaders in their respective industries. The ability to act faster and more effectively than the competition can be the defining advantage in today’s marketplace and the means for successfully managing customer relationships in the long run.

Oracle Delivers BI Suite:Integrated Siebel Analytics with Fusion Middleware (DMReview)

New York - Oracle held an event in Manhattan Wednesday to roll out the new Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, with three editions for different users and a roadmap of products for users of PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and the Oracle Business Suite.

The BI Suite is open, standards-based software that the company says is also "hot-pluggable" to any number of third-party applications and databases. The suite grew from the combination of Oracle (Fusion) BI middleware and Siebel analytics. "Our middleware business is doing great and we're going to roll our BI business in alongside of it," Oracle President Charles Phillips told a crowd of about 500 customers, investors and analysts in a midtown hotel ballroom. He later told reporters BI presented a potential "billion dollar business" for the company.

SAS/Veridiem Deal Will Benefit Both Companies' Customers (Gartner)

By acquiring Veridiem's marketing resource management (MRM) solution, SAS Institute could develop a broader marketing performance management solution linked to its corporate performance management (CPM) solution.

Performance Management Spending Nears $23B in 2006 (AMR)

Enterprise performance management (EPM) spending remains strong in 2006, with nearly $23B planned for software, hardware, labor (internal and external), and integration services. This is according to the results of a detailed survey AMR Research conducted of more than 200 companies across all industry sectors within North America. The data reflects each organization’s plans for expenditures and technology deployment, as well as their goals and objectives for EPM. The details of this study will be published in AMR Research’s Market Analytix Report “Trends in Enterprise Performance Management, 2006” in the next few weeks.

Performance Management Spending Nears $23B in 2006 (AMR)

Enterprise performance management (EPM) spending remains strong in 2006, with nearly $23B planned for software, hardware, labor (internal and external), and integration services. This is according to the results of a detailed survey AMR Research conducted of more than 200 companies across all industry sectors within North America. The data reflects each organization’s plans for expenditures and technology deployment, as well as their goals and objectives for EPM. The details of this study will be published in AMR Research’s Market Analytix Report “Trends in Enterprise Performance Management, 2006” in the next few weeks.

Microsoft unveils mid-market BI software (InfoWorld)

Microsoft unveiled new business intelligence (BI) software Wednesday that was designed to let mid-market companies use analytics and scorecards to study business data through various organizational roles.