by Erin McCune | Nov 12, 2007
Consolidation of the business intelligence industry continues as IBM makes a $4.9 offer for Cognos, a 9.5% premium over Friday's closing price. IBM has had a long standing partnership with Cognos. This is the third major acquisition this year: one month ago SAP...
by Erin McCune | Oct 7, 2007
SAP is buying Business Objects for 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in a departure from its organic growth strategy. Up until now, SAP's largest acquisition was OutlookSoft earlier this year. Listen to the press conference tomorrow or listen to the replay....
by Erin McCune | Sep 5, 2007
Check out this exchange of posts between Frank Buytendijk (Oracle/Hyperion) and Tom Hudock (Online Business Systems) about the role of business in IT initiatives (they are particularly concerned with business intelligence but the sentiment holds true for all...
by Erin McCune | May 10, 2007
The ERP + Performance Management challenge heats up as SAP acquires OutlookSoft in order to compete with Oracle (and it's recent acquisition, Hyperion) Read more:SAP/OutlookSoft press releaseArticle at CFO.com
by Erin McCune | Apr 12, 2007
If you are contemplating a Business Intelligence initiative (or in the midst of one) I strongly encourage you to read this post by Timo Elliott at the BI Questions Blog. He lists five fatal assumptions about BI and offers insight on how to avoid failure:1. BI...
