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Oracle: Acquiring a SUNny Partner
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Apr 21, 2009]
Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems and its
hardware and software technology will allow the database giant
to build fully integrated hardware/software platforms that will
further enhance its already strong competitive position.
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Kickfire: Taking Its MySQL Appliance to the Mass Market
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Apr 20, 2009]
With the release of version 1.1 of its MySQL Appliance,
Kickfire is targeting the MySQL installed base with a low-cost,
high-performance, moderate capacity analytic platform that
should have mass market appeal.
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GoldenGate and Greenplum: An Operational Partnership for Active Data Warehousing
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Apr 13, 2009]
The partnership between GoldenGate Software and its change data
capture technology and Greenplum facilitates the creation of
Greenplum-based active data warehouses and the ability to
analyze near real-time data for operational purposes.
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Jaspersoft: Scaling Up Its Open Source Capabilities
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Apr 06, 2009]
New features in Jaspersoft v3.5 such as a multi-tenant
architecture enhance the scalability and capabilities of this
open source business intelligence offering and make it suitable
for multi-user deployments including the on-demand software
market
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SAS: Working with Teradata to Leverage Analytics for Their Mutual Advantage
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Mar 30, 2009]
The first two packages of their Advantage Program demonstrate
SAS and Teradata’s commitment to working together to enable
their joint customers to leverage the power of the Teradata
platform in support of SAS’ in-database analytic capabilities.
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Melissa Data: Providing Data Quality Web Services for (on)Demanding Organizations
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Mar 23, 2009]
With the release of Data Quality Web Services 2.0, Melissa Data
augments its on-demand data quality offering by providing
several new features which should help it target additional
prospects and attract new customers.
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Kalido and Netezza: Collaborating for Data Warehouse Appliance Deployments
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Mar 16, 2009]
By partnering to certify the Kalido Information Engine to run
on Netezza data warehousing appliances, the two companies hope
to expand their prospect base by offering a combined platform
emphasizing performance, ease-of-use and adaptability.
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Infobright: Its Community Edition Now Does Windows
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Mar 09, 2009]
By porting its open source Infobright Community Edition
database to work with Windows natively, Infobright should be
able to enlarge its prospect audience and generate additional
revenue.
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Microsoft: Serving Up a Fast Track for Data Warehouse Implementations
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Mar 02, 2009]
The Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse provides a
set of hardware reference configurations that will be sold by
several hardware partners. It should facilitate the
implementation and deployment of SQL Server 2008-based data
warehouses.
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Lyzasoft: A Lite, but Aggressive, Marketing Tactic
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Feb 23, 2009]
Seeking to gain additional publicity and attract new users,
Lyzasoft’s introduction of Lyza Lite, with reduced data access
capabilities, should help this emerging desktop BI company
enlarge its overall prospect audience.
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Aster Data Systems: Bringing Its Database to the Clouds
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Feb 16, 2009]
By taking its massively parallel analytic nCluster Database to
the Cloud, Aster is seeking to provide an alternative delivery
channel and increase its prospect audience.
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DVO: A Validator of Informatica PowerCenter Efforts
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Feb 09, 2009]
With the introduction of DataValidator, DVO Software introduces
technology that complements Informatica’s capabilities and
allows Informatica PowerCenter users to automate the process of
validating their data integration efforts.
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Talend: Raising Capital to Fund Its Continued Growth
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Feb 02, 2009]
Providing additional evidence of the growth of open source
technology, Talend’s C round of funding raises $12 million in
capital to help the data integration company fund its growth and
expand its market presence.
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Information Builders: Approaching OnApproach to Deliver WebFOCUS On-Demand
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Jan 26, 2009]
Seeking to increase its appeal to SMB organizations, Information
Builders partners with BI specialist OnApproach LLC for
OnApproach to offer WebFOCUS on a software-as-a-service basis.
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Netezza: Connecting with Microsoft Business Intelligence
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Jan 12, 2009]
Netezza’s collaboration with Microsoft to develop an OLE DB
Connector facilitates the ability of Microsoft Business
Intelligence tools to access data contained in Netezza data
warehouse appliances.
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Angoss: Acquiring dthree’s Complementary Technology
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Jan 05, 2009]
Angoss’ acquisition of the business and assets of dthree Inc.,
enhances the data mining vendor’s on-demand solutions portfolio
while serving to position it as an acquirer rather than a
potential acquisition target.
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Business Intelligence: How Will the Recession Affect Its Deployment?
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| Advisory Report |
Data Management
- [Dec 29, 2008]
Although the current economic recession will almost certainly
result in reduced overall IT expenditures, the market for BI
technology may be less affected, as BI can be used both to
identify additional revenue opportunities and to reduce costs.
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Clarabridge: Establishing a Content Mining Partnering with Teradata
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Dec 22, 2008]
With its partnership with Teradata, text mining and analysis
vendor Clarabridge further enhances its credibility while
establishing an additional revenue channel.
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Sun: MySQL 5.1 Can Now be Yours
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Dec 15, 2008]
Release 5.1 of Sun’s open source MySQL database, while
affirming its commitment to the technology it acquired in early
2008, was marred by controversy due to a blog by a MySQL AB
founder and developer questioning if it was released
prematurely.
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Embarcadero: Visualizing New Features for ER/Studio
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Dec 09, 2008]
As well as support for additional databases, Embarcadero
ER/Studio 8.0 incorporates several new features, including a
visual representation of data lineage that should increase the
attractiveness and usability of the product.
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Kognitio: Partnering with Nextanalytics for Additional DaaS Capabilities
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Dec 01, 2008]
Kognitio’s OEM agreement with BI vendor Nextanalytics
complements its Data Warehousing as a Service offering with
additional analytic functionality and capabilities.
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Teradata: Accelerating Its Appliance Initiative
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Nov 24, 2008]
To showcase its ability to offer complete one-stop data
warehouse, appliance and data mart solutions, Teradata, with
help from its partners, launches a suite of Teradata Accelerate
packages including hardware, software and consulting services.
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SAP: Leveraging Business Objects’ Technology for Enterprise Application Migrations
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Nov 24, 2008]
Leveraging the data quality and data integration technology it
obtained when it acquired Business Objects, SAP is introducing
its SAP Data Migration services, an all-SAP solution to
facilitate customer migrations to its enterprise applications.
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Pitney Bowes: Mapping Out Its Additional Integration with Business Objects
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Nov 17, 2008]
Building upon their existing partnership, Pitney Bowes’ MapInfo
unit integrates its Location Intelligence Component with
Business Objects’ Xcelsius 2008, providing it with geographic
analysis capabilities.
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The Data Warehousing Institute World Conference: ParAccel Demonstrates its Open Source Interoperability
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| Show Update |
Data Management
- [Nov 10, 2008]
By jointly demonstrating interoperability with JasperSoft’s BI
and Talend’s ETL technology, ParAccel is proving that it can
integrate with open source offerings to provide prospects with
a relatively low cost data warehouse software solution.
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The Data Warehousing Institute World Conference: Pentaho Certifies its BI Suite with Netezza’s Data Warehouse Appliances
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| Show Update |
Data Management
- [Nov 10, 2008]
The certification of Pentaho’s BI suite with Netezza’s data
warehouse appliances should provide an attractive solution to
prospects seeking a data warehouse solution with relatively low
cost open source BI technology.
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IBM Information on Demand 2008: A Solid Cache-up Effort
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| Show Update |
Data Management
- [Oct 31, 2008]
In addition to supporting its Information
On Demand Initiative, by allowing its
solidDB Universal Cache to support non-
IBM databases, IBM should be able
market it to non-IBM shops and establish
an entry point for further IBM sales
efforts.
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HP: A New View of Its SASsy Partnership
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Oct 31, 2008]
The opening of the HP SAS Customer
Intelligence Excellence
Center at SAS headquarters and the
integration of the SAS suite
of customer intelligence solutions with
the HP Neoview data
warehouse platform extend the two
companies’ strong partnership.
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Datawatch: Updating Its Monarch Report Mining Technology
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Oct 27, 2008]
Datawatch Monarch V10 should help end-users populate desktop
tools, enabling them to further analyze and manipulate the
static data contained in the reports they receive, thus reducing
their reliance on IT for additional custom reports.
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Teradata: Continuing to Augment Its Appliance Portfolio
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Oct 20, 2008]
After previously dismissing the data warehouse appliance
concept, Teradata, shortly after introducing the Teradata Data
Warehouse Appliance 2550, introduces the Teradata Extreme Data
Appliance 1550 with high capacity and low per terabyte cost.
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Microsoft: A Preview of Future Intelligence
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Oct 14, 2008]
At its BI Conference, Microsoft previewed
forthcoming SQL
Server BI capabilities, but it revealed few
new details about
the data warehouse appliance it will offer
in conjunction with
the technology it gained with the
acquisition of DATAllegro.
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Composite: Adding HP Neoview to its Data Virtualization Mix
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Oct 06, 2008]
With its certification for HP Neoview, Composite Software
extends the data sources it can access in order to provide a
single logical view of federated data and demonstrates its
ability to continue to evolve its technology to meet customer
needs.
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Oracle: Offering a Database Machine with Help From HP
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 30, 2008]
Continuing to enhance its already strong data warehouse
capabilities and market position, Oracle teams with Hewlett-
Packard to create and offer the HP Oracle Database Machine, a
high-end data warehouse appliance.
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Kalido Is Offering Its Information Engine on Demand
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 29, 2008]
In an attempt to increase its appeal to mid-size organizations
by reducing IT involvement and upfront costs, Kalido is
offering components of its Kalido Information Engine as an on-
demand subscription-based service.
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Teradata: Enhancing Its Data Warehouse Appliance
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 22, 2008]
Less than six months after the release of its initial data
warehouse appliance, the introduction of an upgraded platform
should allow the company to further counter the success that
appliance vendors have made into the Teradata installed base.
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IBM: Fortifying its Information Infrastructure
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 15, 2008]
Recognizing the rapid growth of data within most organizations,
IBM launches an Information Infrastructure initiative that
supports its New Enterprise Data Center strategy and will help
customers address their physical data management needs.
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Netezza: Augmenting Its Applications Portfolio
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 08, 2008]
With the release of new analytic applications for its data
warehouse appliance platform, Netezza augments its application
portfolio while demonstrating the success of the one year old
Netezza Development Network.
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Acxiom: Business Intelligence On-Demand
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Data Management
- [Sep 02, 2008]
The on-demand Acxiom BI Platform-X complements the data
enrichment company’s current IT services and allows it to
target new prospects while demonstrating the company is placing
last year’s issues behind it and continuing to move forward.
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TDWI: Talend Enhances the Quality of Open Source
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| Show Update |
Data Management
- [Aug 25, 2008]
Following the addition of data profiling technology earlier this
year, Talend’s addition of data quality and data cleansing
functionality to its open source data integration technology
further enhances the company’s overall competitiveness.
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TDWI: IBM Serves Up InfoSphere Enhancements
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| Show Update |
Data Management
- [Aug 20, 2008]
IBM continues to strengthen its InfoSphere information
management brand with new versions of products that include
InfoSphere Information Server and InfoSphere Master Data
Management Server for Product Information Management.
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