The French newspaper Le Figaro’s report on September 15th that Business Objects SA had retained Goldman Sachs to find a buyer with SAP the leading candidate […]

Yet another long-winded comment from me in response to Darren Cunningham’s comment to the post Is Business Objects Up for Sale? Thank you Darren for your […]

I rambled long enough in my answer to the comment that Vincent McBurney left on my post Is Business Objects Up for Sale? that I figured […]

Is Business Objects [BOBJ] putting itself up for sale? The French newspaper Le Figaro reported on September 15th that Business Objects SA had retained Goldman Sachs […]

In my last post “The end of Business Intelligence takeovers?” I discussed how M&A (mergers and acquisition) activity was alive and kicking. Today, Cognos Inc. (COGN) […]

Has the recent stock market downturn and credit crunch (sub-prime fiasco) stopped or at least postponed the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Business Intelligence, CPM […]

Yesterday IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is acquiring DataMirror Corporation (TSX: DMC) based in Ontario for approximately C$170 million (approximately $161 million USD). DataMirror is a […]

Data warehousing (DW) appliances aren’t the only hardware appliances shaking up the industry. New on the scene are business intelligence (BI) appliances, which also have the […]

My post on IDC’s “Worldwide RDBMS 2006 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors” invoked some lively feedback on IDC’s approach to sizing the […]

SAP AG announced it is acquiring privately-held performance management software management company OutlookSoft. The purchase price is estimated to be $200 million for the Stamford, CT […]

IDC has released Worldwide RDBMS 2006 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors. I’ve provided my thoughts below: The key takeaways: The database market […]

Business Objects yesterday announced its intent to acquire privately held Cartesis, a corporate performance management (CPM) software provider, for approximately $300 million in cash. Headquartered in […]

I have received favorable comments on my observation connecting the state of a corporate headquarters’ stairways with their long-term performance. Unconventional or bizarre is in the […]

The blogs are abuzz with analysis of Oracle’s (ORCL) acquisition of Hyperion (HYSL). My earlier post Oracle Acquires Hyperion: Another One Bites the Dust? generated a […]

Oracle announced today that they were acquiring Hyperion Solution Corp. for approximately $3.3 billion or $52/share. Hyperion is one of the top BI pure-play companies with […]

(This blog post is part of a series on the BI and DW market consolidation. See the first post to get caught up.)   It is […]

TechTarget’s SearchDataManagement.com recently asked me to be one of the judges for their annual products of the year competition for business intelligence and analytics products. The […]

(This blog post is part of a series on the BI and DW market consolidation. See the first post to get caught up.) Everyone forecasting M&A […]

Almost every day it seems that another corporate acquisition is announced. The December 19, 2006 “Top Story” on BusinessWeek.com “Deals of the Year, in a Year […]

Having worked in a high-tech company that was a competitor to HP I’ve got some thoughts to add after reading Andy’s post “Santa Comes Early for […]

HP has announced it is acquiring Knightsbridge Solutions Holdings Corp., a services company specializing in business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration and information quality. Financial terms […]

You know what am I always saying about data shadow systems and the reign of Excel, right? Here’s what Forrester says in a recent white paper: […]

The top BI pure-play vendors – Business Objects (BOBJ), Cognos (COGN) and Hyperion Solutions (HYSL) – all experienced pronounced declines in their stocks prices this summer. […]

I just came back from a very interesting regional user’s group (RUG) meeting for a vendor today. It was the best customer turnout ever for this […]

IBM had a strong quarter with revenue up 5.1% at $22.62 billion compared to last year’s 3rd quarter and earnings up 46% with a net income […]

I started using Oracle twenty five years ago. Twenty years ago I started developing data warehousing and business intelligence solution. More often than not, Oracle was […]

Rumors circulated last week that Business Objects was going to be acquired by Oracle and that IBM was considering acquiring Cognos. Business Objects  stock jumped 11.5% […]

Hannah Smalltree interviewed me for the  SearchDataManagement.com article: Business Intelligence: Invest Now or Wait? This continues the discussion of what’s going on in the BI industry […]

IDC just published its latest report “Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares” on the state of the business intelligence industry . According to IDC’s research, […]

Business Objects (BOBJ) announced preliminary Q2 2006 results late Thursday and its stock was down 21.5% on Friday. It is over 50% below its 52-week high […]

In an acquisition greeted positively by analysts and users, Hyperion Solutions announced it is acquiring privately-held Upstream Software. UpStream’s product, called WebLink DM, provides “a data […]

Oracle is serious about business intelligence…this time for sure! Oracle has offered business intelligence in different flavors through different product groupings over the years. But it’s […]