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During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between
different data warehousing technologies. BI vendor Cognos announced "Cognos platform", a tool to build complete "BI-ready
data infrastructures". Data Movement vendor Ardent Softw (...)
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During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between
different data ware...
Published:
1999-09-29
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Find out how Jaspersoft is staying ahead of the game in the BI market in this comprehensive product note on Jaspersoft Enterprise
Edition. Entering the BI space for large companies is not a small challenge. Jaspersoft may be doing its homework to acquire
more recognition and make a smooth but sure entranc (...)
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... increasing interest from big companies to acquire a commercial open source
solution as well as to the product maturity of open source tools like Jaspersoft's
...
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2010-03-31
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In a move which will challenge other database vendors to open-source their SQL databases, Inprise/Borland Corporation has
announced it is releasing the source code for its InterBase 6 cross-platform SQL database. It will provide the database on
multiple platforms, including Linux, Windows NT, and Sun Sol (...)
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Inprise/Borland Challenges Other Vendors to Open-Source Their Database Code. M. Reed - January
17, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments Event Summary. ...
Published:
2000-01-17
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operations in a transaction valued, on a fully diluted basis, at approximately $880 million, based on the
closing price of Informix common stock on November 30, 1999 (...)
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Informix« (NASDAQ: IFMX) and Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement
to combine their operati...
Published:
1999-12-08
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Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact.
Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly
complicated. (...)
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... be provided the metadata information about the source systems and ...
(Note: currently, even tools from the ... handed over it's standard, OIM (Open
Information Model ...
Published:
2000-05-16
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal
Decisions is an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in business intelligence, specifically for query
and reporting tools. The new name reflects that of its flag (...)
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Seagate Software has announced a new chapter in its corporate history by changing its name to Crystal Decisions. Crystal Decisions
is an informati...
Published:
2001-04-10
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information. (...)
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information.
Published:
2001-09-25
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Evolutionary Technologies (ETI) has announced the newest release of their flagship product, ETI•EXTRACT Tool Suite Release
4.2. ETI·Extract has long been well known as an ETL (extract/transform/load) tool, only recently have companies begun to
realize that data extraction and consolidation are key un (...)
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... to create basic rules to define how parts will be mapped between source and target ...
ETL tools have always been required to consolidate, merge, and move data for ...
Published:
2001-03-07
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Bus-Tech has announced the EnterpriseExpress Adapter for DB2 Access. The product is a PCI-compliant ESCON adapter using IBM's
Multipath Channel+ (MPC+) protocol to provide the highest possible throughput between Windows NT applications and DB2 Universal
Database for OS/390 using IBM's DB2 Connect. (...)
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... Market Impact. Data transfer rates have long been a problem with mainframe DB2 connections, especially
with Extract/Transform/Load tools. ...
Published:
2000-01-23
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Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA) today announced the acquisition of Influence Software, a leading provider of analytic applications
for the e-business value chain. Informatica is acquiring Influence Software for roughly $80 million in a stock transaction
that will be treated as a pooling of interests. Th (...)
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Informatica Heads for E-Business. M. Reed - January 5, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments Event Summary. "PALO ALTO, Calif.,
Dec. 15 /PRNewswire ...
Published:
2000-01-05
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: "HUMC" and TSE: "HUM") has announced the immediate availability of Genio Suite 4.0.
This release states improvements to usability, performance and openness to better support organizations as they implement
large-scale enterprise data warehousing and e-commerce sol (...)
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: "HUMC" and TSE: "HUM") has announced the immediate availability
of Genio Suite 4.0. This release states i...
Published:
2000-01-28
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Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors
hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors
found the e-business holy grail? (...)
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... customers. The warehouse will be open and pre-built, with out-of-the-box tools
for in-depth analyses and reporting. Currently the ...
Published:
2000-12-19
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Recently, SAP announced solid results for Q4 2001, in contrast to the current soft market. Although not all troubles seem
to have been left behind, as can be seen from reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP's justification of
merging its two subsidiaries, a positive sign is that SAP has (...)
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... can quickly access and relate information from any source through Drag&Relate ...
that target heterogeneous system environments through the use of open standards". ...
Published:
2002-02-25
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On September 27, a group of vendors including Oracle, IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Hyperion Solutions announced the submission of
a metadata interchange standard to the OMG standards body. A common approach to metadata would allow products from different
vendors to interact, a problem that has vexed customers f (...)
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... metadata (data about data) between different vendors' tools. ...
are synchronized when the source tables change. ... MDC) which has proposed the Open
Information Model ...
Published:
1999-09-28
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Informix® Corporation, has announced an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport
(ETT) of metadata. The DTD is designed to allow metadata sharing between different vendors’ products using the open XML standard. (...)
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... and facilitating the integration of disparate tools within the enterprise. This announcement
builds on Informix's industry-leading open metadata strategy, and ...
Published:
2000-05-22
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
Published:
2003-08-17
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
Published:
2003-08-18
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Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Business Intelligence and Date Warehouse. Business intelligence (BI) is not a new concept. What’s new is that
BI tools are now accessible for midsize companies. Man (...)
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Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Busines...
Published:
2010-03-11
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SAP's focus on delivering a portal as an overlaying personalized user interface may proved to be a crucial bet, as an intuitive
portal might prove to be a simple an effective way to integrate information from disparate systems. (...)
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... Furthermore, the above merger move might fly in the face of previous SAP's efforts to portray itself
as an open and fair player, and that SAP Portals business ...
Published:
2002-02-26
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Abstract:
Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-range of automated e-commerce systems. Moai’s Dynamic Commerce Markup Language (DCML) is an XML-standard
compliant language for dynamic commerce markets, and co (...)
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-rang...
Published:
2000-05-11