GLG News by Business Intelligence Software Market Experts

• With IBM including a starter edition of Business Objects software with IBM DB2 and DB2 Warehouse, Business Objects will gain new prospects. • The strengthened alliance between IBM and Business Objects demonstrates that despite SAP's pending acquisition of Business Objects, third parties...

Symantec has recently made a key aquisition in Vontu which helps it transform from technology focus to a data focus for security.

Key labor cost changes in India imply that other nations such as the Phillipines, Argentina, Cost Rica, and Puerto Rico will compete more favorably for international business. The increasing cost of talent and a constrained pool of talent will cause companies to hesitate when considering India as a...

The actual number of Linux servers is increasing. What is decreasing is the rate of increase.  The survey done is measuring new hardware sales, thus this measurement might be misguided.

• The BI industry will continue to consolidate as BI specialists seek to broaden their platform capabilities while database and/or enterprise application vendors seek to acquire their own BI technology. • A vendor dichotomy consisting of BI specialists and application and/or database vendors...

• While the adoption of Windows Vista in 2007 may have been somewhat disappointing, it should accelerate in 2008. • This will be driven by business users having almost no choice but to obtain Vista when they acquire new home PCs and by Microsoft's expected Q1 2008 release of Service Pack...

As much as 20% of the audience for television's most popular shows are skipping the commercial content.  This high number is of great concern to the marketing group.  This group is questioning the effectiveness of TV advertising.    With the advent of digital video recorders,...

•Microsoft's acquisition of Jelllyfish.com provides immediately credibility to the social shopping market. •Microsoft acquired Jellyfish.com for both offensive and defensive reasons. •Microsoft recognizes that today's product set might not always meet the needs of tomorrow's users...

The most recent round of virtualization technology has been highlighted by the dynamic emergence of VMware as one of the hottest products around. Of course virtualization has been around a long time both on the mainframe (IBM) and the desktop (Citrix). But why has this latest round of products grabbed...

Mr. Steve Jobs apologized publicly and said Apple will offer a $100 credit at Apple stores to all iPhone users who paid the original price. This was occurred because Apple announced that is was cutting $200 off the price of its $599 iPhone. Mr. Jobs insisted the price cut was necessary to broaden...