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SwiftKnowledge launches web-based BI application

Allows users to access unified information located across multiple repositories and data systems

NetSuite Q4 revenue increases to $43m

Posts net loss of $6.5m, compared to $4.5m in same period last year

SuccessFactors to acquire Inform for $40.5m

To offer business analytics and workforce planning as part of its business execution software suite

Teradata, Itron to create Active SmartGrid Analytics

To help energy companies access integrated customer, financial and operational information and perform analytics

Jaspersoft rolls out new Jaspersoft 3.7 Community release

Offers developers and customers usability features for reporting environments

Netezza, NEC to develop data warehouse appliances

New appliances to combine Netezza's architecture and analytical database software with NEC's blade server and storage platforms

MicroStrategy Q4 revenues up 11% to $105.8m

Net income increases 44% on year ago quarter

STORServer unveils new version of reporting software

To provide live data gathering, reporting and trending of backup servers and clients

IBM to acquire MDM provider Initiate Systems

To strengthen its ability to help healthcare and government sectors

Information Builders releases new version of WebFOCUS RStat

For data mining and statistical analysis

InetSoft launches new business intelligence application

Includes new data visualisation capabilities for geographic charting

Comments & Opinion

The Road Ahead

We look at SAP's roadmap and ask whether the enterprise software firm can innovate fast enough to keep its heartland of large customers happy and break into newer markets. Janine Milne reports.

Master of complexity

Sohaib Abassi is CEO of the largest independent data integration firm on the planet: Informatica. The firm has just acquired its way into the Complex Event Processing space, and launched a cloud integration platform to boot. Jason Stamper reports.

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

Central Station: the rise of the CMDB

Interest in the configuration management database (CMDB) is helping to drive a wave of interest in business service management, or BSM. But is there real value behind the CMDB acronym?

Microsoft bids farewell to PerformancePoint Server 2007

Microsoft has announced its intention to move the scorecard, dashboard and analytic functionality from PerformancePoint Server 2007 into its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise, while dropping the planning module. While integrating business intelligence into the core stack fits Microsoft's wider strategy, PerformancePoint Server may have been a successful standalone product, given time.

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