Oracle buys Sunopsis to fight Informatica

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced plans to enhance its Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings through the acquisition of Sunopsis, a leading provider of heterogeneous data integration products. [Read more...]

How To Mine All That Customer Data

A’dam – September, 22th 2007 – The seeming simplicity of a term like “business intelligence” belies the rich potential its implementation can provide to a small or midsize company. Data mining is the backbone of BI–it means sorting through company data and identifying and extracting valuable information about operations. [Read more...]

Value-Driven Data Warehousing

“I am tired of IT people. They’ll talk to you for half an hour about what they do, but by the time they’re finished, you still don’t have any idea what they’ve told you or why it’s important,” so complained a friend of mine in a recent conversation. [Read more...]

Microsoft Introduces New Offerings for Business Intelligence and Mission-Critical Workloads

Today from PASS Summit 2010, Microsoft Corp. unveiled the next generation of SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server code-named “Denali,” and made available SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. [Read more...]

Talend’s New Unified Platform Brings First Holistic Integration Solution to the Enterprise

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced version 5 of its unified platform for integration, becoming the only open source vendor to offer a comprehensive technology portfolio that spans all enterprise integration needs, including data, applications and business processes. 

This press release has been written by Talend and published as a news item on ETLtool.com. [Read more...]

Oracle buys BEA for $8.5 billion

As expected after three months Oracle’s bid for BEA has been accepted.
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The Up-and-Coming Integration Power-That-Be?

Amsterdam, June, 21th, 2006 – With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching. [Read more...]

IBM Acquires Analytics Firm DataMirror for $160 Million

IBM today announced plans to acquire DataMirror Corporation, a business information firm based in Ontario, Canada, for approximately $161m in cash. [Read more...]

Is Ab Initio Worth Evaluating?

Ab Initio has been around for long enough to make a name for themselves in the ETL space. Their marketing approach appears to be one of mystique: maintain secrecy around the product while allowing some information out about the high-end customers, creating interest because of the tantalizing tidbits they provide. [Read more...]

4 Hadoop Helpers Promise Speedy Big-Data Analysis

Integration vendors launch commercial add-on products for the hot open-source framework. Here’s how four products streamline high-volume workloads. [Read more...]