SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory appliance, took top billing and once again dominated the keynote sessions at SAP’s premier business event, SAPPHIRE Now . This year in Madrid the company announced, amongst other enhancements, a version of HANA that runs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW), enabling users to tap into the high speed loading [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Helena SchwenkDuring its analyst conference in Athens Greece SAS revealed details of a new business visualisation capability – SAS Visual Analytics Explorer. Adding business focused visualisation functionality to its extensive product line is, we believe, a good thing – it promises to bring analytics to a mainstream audience allowing them to unlock insights from data quickly [...]
Posted on Monday, July 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkYesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public beta since April (and in private beta since November), includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps, as well [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast week Sybase held its annual analyst event in the heart of New York’s financial district at the New York Stock Exchange. The event provided a useful forum in which to assess the company’s progress since being acquired by SAP in July last year but also gave an opportunity to catch-up on developments with Sybase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week Teradata announced its intention to acquire Aster Data for $263 million. This equates to 89% ownership of Aster Data; Teradata acquired an earlier 11% ownership interest back in September last year. The deal, which is expected to close some time in the second quarter, is designed to give Teradata a firmer foothold in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Helena SchwenkBarely a few weeks after declaring it would stop actively selling Neoview, its data warehousing platform, HP has announced plans to acquire Vertica– an analytic database vendor – for an undisclosed sum. The deal firmly places HP back within the analytic data management market and marks the first acquisition for Leo Apotheker since he took [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Helena SchwenkMicrosoft and HP recently firmed up their commitment to the data warehouse and BI space by announcing a portfolio of appliances that pull together the infrastructure of HP with the information management and BI tools of Microsoft. At first glance this announcement might seem like Microsoft and HP are playing catch-up with others in the [...]
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkTeradata finished 2010 with an acquisition by snapping up privately owned Aprimo, a provider of marketing management software, for $525 million in cash. The acquisition demonstrates Teradata’s desire to broaden its analytic application capabilities, whilst also being able to complement and enhance its market leading (and mature) enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform. Teradata snags a [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Helena SchwenkYesterday, Salesforce.com announced that it had completed its acquisition of web conferencing vendor DimDim for $31 million in cash (net of cash acquired). The company intends to build DimDim’s feature set into its Chatter product (prioritising presence, instant messaging/chat and screensharing, it would seem), helping to build out its collaboration software credentials and, in Salesforce.com [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenYesterday IBM finally took the wrappers off Cognos 10 during the company’s Information-on- Demand event in Las Vegas. This is an important release for the company as it demonstrates IBM’s on-going commitment to Business Analytics and the Cognos brand. In particular it builds on the success of the company’s existing BI and PM offering whilst [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 by Helena Schwenk
