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Microsoft Unleashes a Deluge of BI Goodies

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. is flooding the BI market yet again. This time around, the company is announcing new SQL Server Report Packs for Exchange and...

DBAs Leery About Letting the Masses Build Reports

ORLANDO, Fla.—Business intelligence a la Microsoft Corp.s steady stream of freebie BI tools is a Jekyll and Hyde situation for IT managers: They want...

Microsoft Drives Mass Adoption of BI by Hiding It

Bill Baker, Microsoft Corp.s general manager of SQL Server Business Intelligence, thinks few people wake up and say, "Im going to do BI today." Instead,...

IBM Releases DB2 Information Integrator

IBM has released the DB2 Information Integrator, which includes search technology that will bring order to the often-jumbled data sources of corporate intranets, company...

More Tools on Tap for SQL Server Reporting Services Users

Microsoft has posted for download from its Web site a collection of three new "report packs" that are designed to help users envision and...

Preparing for IT Recovery from a Hurricane

Jan Rideout knew it would be tough to get through the next few days. Hurricane Ivan had drawn a bead on her part of the...

Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs, Security Silence

A growing number of Oracle users are not happy with what theyre getting. Why? The products cost too much. The products are suddenly springing security...

Oracle, Dell Power Up Yet More Servers with Database 10g

Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. have served up the latest gambit in their dual-front attack on the SMB market, announcing on Tuesday that theyre...

PeopleSoft, IBM Strike $1B Deal for Middleware

SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced an expanded relationship with IBM that will effectively add a middleware infrastructure layer to PeopleSofts applications. Revealed at...

PeopleSofts Conway Glib About Oracle in Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO—During his Connect keynote address at PeopleSoft Inc.s user conference here on Tuesday, CEO Craig Conway pulled all the heartstrings—including a round of...