Oracle Buys Cartesis!

Market consolidation reaches absurd new heights! Many thanks to Piet Loubser for forwarding a link to this DM Review article by David O’Connell of Nucleus Research: Oracle’s recent acquisition of best-of-breed performance management vendor Cartesis means that ERP vendors want to take their BI-related functionality up a notch. Wait! Didn’t Business Objects buy Cartesis?!  The article should of course read “…performance... [Read More...]

Business Objects Buys Cartesis

Business Objects just announced its intention to purchase Cartesis, a leading finance and performance management company. The purchase had been a rumored for some time. I attended the presentation of Crispin Read, Cartesis’ CMO and a former (and now future) colleague, at the Gartner BI Conference in London earlier this year. The talk was entitled “From BI to Performance Management“, and focused on the premise that BI has not delivered... [Read More...]