Oracle Daily Business Intelligence
Published: 25th January 2006 | By: Philip Howard
Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) is embedded management reporting for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Where it differs significantly (indeed, Oracle’s claim is that it turns conventional wisdom upside down) from traditional approaches is that DBI leverages specialised facilities within the…
Temtec Executive Viewer 2006
Published: 5th January 2006 | By: Philip Howard
Executive Viewer is technically known as an OLAP viewer. That is to say, it is intended to allow business users to examine information held within OLAP cubes, without recourse to the IT department or developers.
Natural from Software AG
Published: 4th January 2006 | By: Tel Hudson and Philip Howard
Natural was one of the first 4GLs (fourth generation languages) to be introduced, over a quarter of a century ago. Of course, at that time it was mainframe-based, as was all serious computing. However, as other platforms have grown to…
Business Intelligence with Datanomic
Published: 1st January 2006 | By: Philip Howard
To err is human. Whenever users need to enter information (such as data, formulae or business rules) into a computer system there is a significant chance that some proportion of whatever is entered will be incorrect, invalid or useless. Moreover,…
HP OpenView – Identity Management Suite
Published: 22nd December 2005 | By: Fran Howarth
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Executive Guidance on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Published: 19th December 2005 | By: Bloor Research
The entire thrust of IT architecture is headed towards the orientation of process. This ‘process-centric’ approach touches the organization at many levels and includes a variety of software products that can be applied in building the appropriate supporting technology infrastructure.…
The AXS-One Compliance Platform
Published: 30th November 2005 | By: Philip Howard
AXS-One is typically thought of as providing e-mail archiving. However, its solution is actually much broader than that: it also encompasses compliance, legal discovery, electronic records management and data retrieval, as well as policy-based archival management for improved management of…
Cognos Planning
Published: 30th November 2005 | By: Philip Howard
Cognos Planning is, as its name suggests, a planning application, which supports budgeting, forecasting and the coordination of financial and operational planning across the enterprise. It is not limited to financial departments but is also suitable for deployment in operational…
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0
Published: 22nd November 2005 | By: Philip Howard
From an historical perspective, Sybase has focused on what used to be SQL Server and is now Adaptive Server Enterprise at OLTP. More recently, it has also concentrated on providing excellent query performance, particularly where hybrid processing requirements are present.…
Hyperion System 9 Planning
Published: 21st November 2005 | By: Philip Howard
Hyperion System 9 Planning is, as its name suggests, a planning application, which supports budgeting, forecasting and central control of any financial and operational planning that may take place across the enterprise. It is not limited to finance and Hyperion…