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Location, location, location...
Comment Meanwhile business intelligence (BI) vendors such as Cognos, Business Objects and Information Builders offer some level of geospatial capabilities through partnerships with established GIS vendors. Today, companies are generating volumes of data... [09 Oct 2007]
Brampton Factor: CIO ideology
Comment Computing is about building models of problems we want to solve, and creating problem-oriented objects is a creative way to explore those problems. CIOs and IT directors are typically concerned with how an organisation carries out its business... [16 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment Leading BI vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion are investing significant resources into re-architecting their original disparate tools and applications to work together as part of an integrated platform: for example, Business... [01 Dec 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple
Comment This includes vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos, Extensity (now part of Infor), Hyperion, Outlooksoft and SAS - many of whom, once primarily known for their business intelligence (BI) heritage, have extended their reach as providers of... [06 Oct 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?
Comment Proponents of RFID will say the technology makes it simple to tag and identify individual objects with a unique identity, rather than just identifying the group to which an object belongs, and that RFID readers can detect multiple tags at a... [16 Mar 2006]
Q&A: CEO of Business Objects, Bernard Liautaud
Comment So awful, in fact, that the company Liautaud helms, Business Objects, saw its stock price plummet from $50 to $5 as sales dried up. A number of people then said Business Objects was not relevant. These days the naysayers are long gone, and Wall... [24 Aug 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Give me Autonomy
Comment Indeed the heads of Business Objects, Sage and one of the top three or four execs from SAP were at the debate. Headed by Mike Lynch, a man equally referred to on these pages over the years as an entrepreneur, technologist and business leader, it... [18 Mar 2005]
Leader: IPR - free your mind
Leader Though perhaps the biggest win in the language arena was inserting the word 'property' in 'intellectual property' when IP could well be argued to be more akin to 'ideas' than real property - the difference being if you tell someone your ideas... [10 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Medieval historians bite back
Comment Yet web services is an implementation of lightweight remote objects and 'new' programming languages depend on the ancient, by IT standards, concept of a virtual machine. This is true both in politics and business, and nowhere more than in IT. [02 Mar 2004]
"Downturn? What downturn?" ask BI vendors
Comment According to Business Objects, the move will make it around 30 per cent bigger than rival Cognos in terms of customer numbers. Kirsten Jefferies, product marketing manager at Business Objects, agrees. [25 Nov 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Software never changes
Comment That could be adapted to commercial problems through the design of business-related objects. If software is developed and financed within defined business units, there is no incentive to invest extra effort to create objects with organisation-wide... [16 Sep 2003]
Through the fog... Wireless email at work dilemmas
Comment There is no doubt that vibrating objects can enhance relationships and, in some cases, even save marriages. Take the business person sitting in a meeting feeling his mobile phone or pager go off in his pocket. [25 Apr 2003]
The Ovum View: WLAN - beyond simple data access
Comment This allows the company, it claims, to locate objects within WLAN coverage down to a metre in accuracy. Public WLAN business models vary widely but they mostly centre on the provision of straightforward, vanilla data services broadband access. [17 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: US telecoms, systems management newcomer and SAP
Comment TotalView links physical components in the IT infrastructure to business objects, giving users the ability to relate the variation of system parameters and alarms to their effects on business processes. [10 Feb 2003]
The Ovum View: The reality of end-user IT circa 2002
Comment Successive waves of technology from client-server and objects to EAI and business intelligence have fallen a long way short of the 'radical benefits' that were hyped. What does the business want? Technology vendors have to demonstrate they will... [21 Aug 2002]
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