Over Thanksgiving the Secunia.com site was defaced using a DNS hijacking technique that’s simple and effective When a security software vendor’s site gets hijacked, you have to wonder who is safe — and how it happened. Here’s the story. Last Thursday, people venturing to the main website of renowned security firm Secunia saw a strange [...]

QA: BI and the Data Dilemma Growing data volumes are challenging BI practitioners and IT staff alike. We explore new approaches to dealing with the problem. By James E. Powell July 2, 2008 As business intelligence expands within an enterprise, new technologies (such as search) are ever more important to giving users what they need, [...]

SWOT Analysis: Business Objects’ Predictive Workbench We look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Business Objects’ Predictive Workbench. By Mike Schiff July 9, 2008 With the release of its Predictive Workbench, SAP/Business Objects has filled a noticeable gap in its business intelligence portfolio and can rightfully claim to offer a full spectrum of [...]

In Depth: Closing the Ad Hoc Query Performance Gap for Good Poor ad hoc query performance was the motivating reason behind the rise of data warehousing in the late 1990s — and it’s still a problem today. By Stephen Swoyer July 9, 2008 The way many business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) vendors are [...]

Uncorking the Data Bottleneck with Operational BI Lessons from Web search and Web 2.0 July 9, 2008 By Dr. Larry Harris At the strategic level, operational business intelligence (also known as pervasive BI) is about spreading the benefits of Business Intelligence to a wider community of users who are more involved with the day-to-day operations [...]

In Depth: The Non-Traditional Data Conundrum Business users are going to consume non-traditional data with or without IT’s approval. Experts say data management groups must strive to make consumption of this information predictable and governable. By Stephen Swoyer July 16, 2008 Information workers are no longer content to use traditional, structured data – the easy-to-categorize [...]

Six BI Trends You Can’t Ignore We offer six ways to boost BI adoption rates and drive greater return on your BI investments. July 23, 2008 By Michael Corcoran Business intelligence (BI) technology has had a tremendous impact on decision-making activities at most companies. In the last several years, it has become one of the [...]

Business Objects Reloads Mid-Market Product Line The rules of the mid-market game are changing, but Business Objects thinks it has an ace up its sleeve — its reporting expertise By Stephen Swoyer July 23, 2008 With new releases of two of its signal SME offerings on tap this week, Business Objects — now an SAP [...]

Analysis: What’s Behind Microsoft’s DATAllegro Acquisition? You’ve already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse appliance in your future? By Stephen Swoyer July 25, 2008 You’ve already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse (DW) appliance in your future? That’s just one question [...]

Flexiant: Flexiant targets the US cloud computing market (M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:29112010 Pioneering cloud software and services company Flexiant marked its entry into the US market with an announcement today of its partnership with Phoenix Fire, a business development agency specialising in partner channel development for the US technology sector. The partnership [...]