In the final excerpt from our interview with Marge Breya, we discuss the role of NetWeaver in SAP’s product strategy. Breya, Executive Vice President & GM Intelligence Platform & NetWeaver of SAP BusinessObjects, oversees full product line responsibility for BI and information management solutions, as well as the company’s OnDemand business. In addition, Breya isContinue reading “Marge Breya: NetWeaver + BI Forms a New Layer”
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IBM Acquires Exeros – Information Agenda Gets A Boost
IBM has taken another key step in its Information Agenda strategy, improving customers’ ability to analyze, understand and remediate existing data by acquiring Exeros. There is a fundamental business problem that grows with data volume: an understanding gap. As new development, acquisition and integration of multiple systems takes place, meaning and process understanding are often obscured orContinue reading “IBM Acquires Exeros – Information Agenda Gets A Boost”
Ralph Kimball’s TDWI Crowd Shows DW & BI are Thriving
The economy may be challenging, but 100 attendees on a weekday afternoon in San Francisco proved that there is plenty of interest in data warehousing. The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) drew a sizable, energetic group to its quarterly meeting. No doubt the presence of Ralph Kimball, a seminal and influential thinker, had a lotContinue reading “Ralph Kimball’s TDWI Crowd Shows DW & BI are Thriving”
IBM InfoSphere Now Supports Informix and z
IBM’s InfoSphere Data Warehouse has been a steady growth asset. As IBM has created and acquired pieces of the infrastructure and progressively created a more complete, end-to-end offering, it has continued to add new customers to (and from) one of the largest installed bases in the world. In reviewing 2008, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge asserted compoundContinue reading “IBM InfoSphere Now Supports Informix and z”