Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand

Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects launched Information OnDemand, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers such as Dun & Bradstree, the US Census Bureau, NewsTin, etc. And now Microsoft have launched their “Dallas” project, a variation on the same theme: “Microsoft’s Information Services business, enabling developers and information workers to instantly find, purchase, and manage datasets to power... [Read More...]

Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making

Gartner has published their take on the new Collaborative Decision Making market (CDM) This report predicts a new style of decision support system — collaborative decision making (CDM) — will emerge in 2009 that combines social software with business intelligence (BI). This combination can dramatically improve the quality of decision making by directly linking the information contained in BI systems with collaborative input gleaned through the... [Read More...]

SAP Dashboards at Microsoft?

According to the Treasury & Risk site, Microsoft is a keen user of SAP dashboards, at least in conjunction with their treasury needs: Ed Barrie’s first daily task as group manager of treasury at Microsoft is opening up his treasury workstation from SAP and taking the pulse of its financial health. “The dashboard is great for horizontal processes like general ledger, accounts payable and managing our cash positions,” Barrie enthuses from... [Read More...]

Microsoft Kills PerformancePoint?

Microsoft has announced on their blog that: "In mid 2009, we will release PerformancePoint Server 2007 “Service Pack 3” … Thereafter, our customers and partners should not expect further investment in standalone versions of PerformancePoint Server." In a video announcement Guy Weismantel, Director of Microsoft BI announced that: "Based on customer feedback, we are consolidating the scorecard, dashboard, and analytic... [Read More...]

Microsoft Launches Impressive New Suite… of BI Cliches?

Yesterday, Microsoft launched PerformancePoint Server 2007 using an impressively dense array of well-worn BI clichés, presumably confident that many of their potential purchasers had never heard any of them before. Here’s the ComputerWorld article on the launch. If any other BI vendor had said these things, would they have printed it? Cliché #1: Information vs. insight “Customers have spent hundred of billions of dollars... [Read More...]

Mid-Market BI Feeding Frenzy?

After Business Objects and Microsoft, Oracle is the latest entrant into mid-market BI.  Read More →