How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, won't that require a level of governance to protect enterprises from flighty Web-based ser...
When Oracle announced it had agreed to buy the business intelligence vendor Hyperion for $3.3 billion, executives did not waste time explaining one of its motives. "Hyperion is the latest move in our strategy to expand Oracle's offerings to SAP customers," Oracle President Charles Phillips stated. "...
Oracle has agreed to buy BI heavyweight Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash. The move follows SAP's acquisition of BI vendor Pilot Software last month, illustrating the trend among ERP providers to enhance their operational backbone products with performance management, a subsector in the bu...
Organizations of all types are increasingly turning to business intelligence applications -- a combination of data mining, statistical and numerical analysis and data visualization -- to better manage and make sense of the ever-growing amounts of data they are collecting. Continuing the mantra of Pa...
Imagine a world in which you could walk in your office in the morning and see a stoplight. Green would mean your company's image on the Web was favorable, yellow would mean neutral, and red would mean big trouble -- like one of your customers had just blogged that your product obliterates hard drive...
Witness Systems has upgraded the workforce management module of its Impact 360 Workforce Optimization application to provide tighter integration into the workforce optimization engine, as well as new functionality. Impact 360, released last September, combines Witness Systems' software with technolo...
Companies are still not fully utilizing one of their largest and most familiar IT investments -- their ERP systems -- suggests a new study by performance management firm Ventana Research. At face value, this may seem surprising; companies typically invest tens of millions of dollars in ERP systems t...
Witness Systems has added new functionality to its Impact 360 Workforce Optimization application that it launched last year. Impact 360 is the application derived through combining Witness Systems' software with technology obtained in its Blue Pumpkin acquisition. In this release, Witness Systems ti...
Onyx has upgraded its analytics application with the introduction of Onyx Analytics 3.0, a product within the vendor's Performance Management portfolio. New features in this release include scorecarding and event monitoring functionality. Scorecarding allows users to monitor and rate performance aga...
Several CRM and BI vendors have announced support for Google's new addition to its enterprise search feature, OneBox for Enterprise. The list includes Cognos, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAS Institute. Google has released a number of tools aimed at the enterprise in recent months, some of w...
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