Tom Sullivan

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Information supply, demand spur growth in reporting

As e-commerce requires tighter integration among suppliers, partners, and customers, e-businesses are finding themselves dealing increasingly in...

Oracle adding business intelligence to database

Oracle Corp. said Tuesday that it is folding its OLAP (online analytical processing engine), data mining, and ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) tools into its database engine with the release of 9i, expected in the second half of next year. The goal is to make BI tools accessible to more users.

Java now being extended to data analysis

A consortium of industry heavy-weights is promising to deliver OLAP to Java developers.

Dot-Com shakeout clears landscape

Now that the dot-com craze has slowed down and the gold dust has settled, both start-ups and old-guard brick-and-mortar companies are in a better position than ever to incorporate the Web into their business models, several executives said Wednesday at BEA Systems Inc.'s E-Commerce in San Francisco.

Balanced scorecards set for integration boost

Companies more and more are relying on the concept of a balanced scorecard to help gauge the...

Sun tries to boost Java-on-Linux uptake

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday announced here at the LinuxWorld two agreements designed to expand the distribution...

Red Hat buys Web server vendor

Red Hat Inc., of Research Triangle Park, N.C., agreed on Monday to acquire Oakland, Calif.-based C2Net Software,...

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