Open Source Weblog: December 2007 Archives

Looking back on 2007, and towards 2008
December 24, 2007

So 2007 will be remembered for BI consolidation: Cognos buying Applix, Oracle buying Hyperion, SAP buying Business Objects and IBM buying Cognos. That and the iPhone hype, of course.

In open source SCO's case hit the rocks, Red Hat got a new CEO, and Linux continued to make little impression as a desktop OS! Still, at least it is still making excellent progress as an infrastructure enabler. But what will 2008 have in store for enterprise IT?

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Check out our BI special report
December 14, 2007

As I mentioned on a previous blog, we co-produced a special report on business intelligence with Special Report Publishing, which was distributed with The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

In case you missed it, we’ve posted the stories into our Business Intelligence Analysis Center, which you can find on the left of our home page.

But to make it even simpler for you to find all of the articles, I’ve created a mini contents page for you down below: now isn’t that what you call organised!

How to put your data to work

What’s in your basket? A look at BI in retail.

Brave new world: a look at enterprise search

Making the business case for BI investment

Q&A with business intelligence experts

Technology focus: the different approaches to BI

Café Nero case study: why they implemented Cognos, and what they achieved by doing so.

Power to perform: from BI to performance management

Safe & secure: lessons learned from the HM Revenue and Customs data debacle

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If you read one thing tomorrow…
December 12, 2007

CBR has co-produced a special report in the Daily Telegraph that will be appearing tomorrow (Thursday, 13 December). So if you’re in the UK, pick up a copy at all good newsagents.

The report is on business intelligence, and you probably don’t need me to tell you what a hot topic that is right now. Little wonder that over $15bn worth of acquisitions have been consummated in just four deals this year: Oracle buying Hyperion, SAP buying Business Objects, Cognos buying Applix and then IBM buying Cognos.

The report looks at the latest trends in BI: the move towards performance management; the rise of enterprise search from the likes of Autonomy, FAST and Google Enterprise; the sophisticated use of BI in the retail sector and even how to justify investment in business intelligence technologies.

There’s a roundup of the latest news, and some thought-provoking factoids – for example that the term business intelligence was first used in the context in which we now use it, in an article in 1958 written by H.P.Luhn in the IBM Journal.

CBR co-produced it with those nice people at Special Report Publishing. It features comment from many of the experts in the BI field, coverage of one or two open source BI vendors like JasperSoft, and even takes a look at how companies can avoid a major data loss such as that experienced by Nationwide with the loss of a laptop early this year, or HMRC and its two missing computer discs.

Anyway, check it out tomorrow, and be sure to let me know what you think.

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