Hyperion and MSFT Announce Great Collaboration; In the Face of Horrible Q1 Results, Is Hyperion Desperate for Some Positive Coverage?   A ccording to Hyperion, integration of Microsoft SQL Server technologies with Hyperion System 9 BI+ to will enable interoperability for mutual customers.    Collaboration plans include four initiatives that integrate Microsoft SQL Server 2005 … Read more
Sluggish Sales for Hyperion System 9 Continue Due to High Price Tag and Migration Cost; No Relief In Sight from Upstream Acquisition or Upcoming BPM Architect Product    H yperion is projecting a 10%, or $28 million, in fiscal 2007, which is seen by many in the financial community as a major disappointment, given the September … Read more
BOBJ announced their results and Sent Shares South by over 12%; only 10% of Customers Have Upgraded to XI2       B usiness Objects announced its quarterly profit fell 18% as expenses, including those for stock options, rose to more than offset a 12% increase in revenue.   According to SG Cowen, “We Remain Cautiously Pessimistic. … Read more
First Signs of Integration of Crystal Live Office and Crystal Xcelsius – Crystal Vision Product Line   B usiness Objects unveiled Crystal Vision and Crystal Vision Server, reporting software for individuals and midsized companies, respectively. They let users create reports and business intelligence dashboards and use the produced information within Microsoft Office applications. Crystal Vision … Read more
Where you wondering why Business Objects acquired EII vendor, Medience and data quality vendor, FirstLogic? Business Objects’ Reveals its EIM Strategy A mid much hoopla, Business Objects announced new products, services, and partnerships for enterprise information management (EIM). According to BOBJ, EIM provides customers with a strategy to ensure that their information is accurate and … Read more
IÂ Â n absence of its own BPM solution, Cognos partners with Pegasystems, a provider of unified process and rules technology. There is very little detail around the nature of this partnership, so it is likely to be a marketing partnership only. None-the-less, the announcement confirms a BPM hole in Cognos product stack / story, which … Read more
A ccording to Gartner, there is a general and significant trend where many of the primarily pure-play business intelligence (BI) vendors now sell and support industry-specific analytic applications and corporate performance management (CPM) tools, especially in banking and financial services, where many have sold horizontal applications.   Findings From the ‘Business Intelligence and Performance Management’ … Read more
Cognos Cognos Delays Filing; Shares Drop 11% Cognos Unveils New Performance Solutions for Financial Management, Financial Services and Life Sciences Cognos Unveils New Performance Solutions for Financial Management, Financial Services and Life Sciences Gartner Urges Caution When Considering Vertical Offerings from Best of Breed BI Vendors Pegasystems Partners With Cognos; Needs BPM Cognos Delays Filing; … Read more
Move Over Pentaho; JasperSource to Release a BI Suite JasperReports last year was commercialized by JasperSoft Corp. (the former Panscopic), which bundled a report authoring client (iReport), a portal-based, embeddable reporting engine (JasperDecisions), and other complementary enhancements with the vanilla JasperReports library. Â At the MySQL conference, JasperSoft announced an open source BI suite, JasperIntelligence, which … Read more