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Is Excel a Complete BI Solution?
08.20.2008
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Rajan Chandras
The recently released Forrester Wave for Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms assesses 12 BI vendors/tools. The report does not include Excel as one of the 12 solutions, which led me to ponder: Can we consider Excel a BI tool in its own right? To qualify for the survey, the vendor (and tool) must provide...

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Mark Madsen
Talend Bows Data Quality Product
08.20.2008
Talend announced an open source data quality offering today. The company has been moving very quickly to fill out all of the basic components needed for a complete data integration suite. In June they delivered Talend Open Profiler for data profiling, and the Open Studio ETL tool contains changed data capture (CDC) features. That's a big expansion of functionality in short time...

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Comparing Vertica, ParAccel and Exasol
08.19.2008
blog author
Curt Monash
I talked with executives at Nuremberg, Germany-based Exasol last week — at 5:00 am ET! — and of course want to blog about it. For clarity, I'd like to start by comparing/contrasting the fundamental data structures at Vertica, ParAccel, and Exasol. And it feels like that should be a separate post. So here goes.

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Kas Thomas
What do Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress Have In Common?
08.18.2008
Big Blue recently released its IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, and it contains more than a few eyebrow-raisers. For example, Web-application-based security vulnerabilities have begun to outnumber reports involving conventional viruses and trojans... What really got my attention, though, is the new Top Ten list of vendors with the most vulnerability disclosures...

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Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
August 18, 2008
by Antone Gonsalves
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.

Of BI and Baseball: Two Reports Present Vendor and Product Standings
August 11, 2008
by Doug Henschen
It ain't over till it's over, and Forrester and BIScorecard reports say the business intelligence playoffs are a long way off.

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Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.

IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
Product Information Management and Information Server enhancements aimed at getting data right, matching names, standardizing terms and doing business around the globe.

Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
IT departments scramble to devise backup plans following service disruptions at Amazon, Citrix, and Google.

Amazon To Launch Persistent Storage For EC2
Elastic block storage allows you to attach persistent, unformatted, or "raw" data storage to "instances" of applications or services that reside on Amazon's EC2.

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Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
by Paul McDougall - August 19, 2008
IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
by Doug Henschen - August 18, 2008
Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
by Antone Gonsalves - August 18, 2008
Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
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