Recent Articles By Mark Smith
Analyst's View: Hyperion Unveils Strategic Vision for Management Systems
With companies seeking a common technology foundation for financial and operational decisions, Hyperion has set its sights on delivering a complete management system.
Peak Peformance: Smart Money Is on MDM
If companies spent on Master Data Management training and technology what they now spend on chasing down and fixing data errors, they would be on their way to a longer term solution.
Breakthrough Analysis: Enterprise Search: Time To Get Serious
The rise of Google, Yahoo and specialized search providers has radically altered our perception of information access, yet enterprise search implementations haven't kept up with the transformation in the consumer world. Plenty of vendors are developing breakthroughs, but the missing player has been Microsoft, and many believe progress in enterprise search is being held hostage by long and unwieldy upgrade cycles for systems including Windows, Office and SharePoint. Look beyond quick fixes and bring search into your strategic information management strategy.
Informatica Extends Data Integration for On-Demand Systems and BI
Software provider elaborates partnerships with Hyperion and salesforce.com.
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Blog: Peak Performance
by Mark Smith
How Sweet is SAP Business Suite 7?
Just in time for Valentine's Day and your C-Suite of CEO, CFO, COO and CIO budget review, SAP has announced Business Suite 7, which is the latest version of the company's on-premise enterprise-level application suite... SAP has worked for many years to bring this major version to market, but there are many business technology priorities for 2009 that have to be reconciled with an examination of SAP Business Suite 7 as purchase for this year or next...
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02.12.2009
MicroStrategy 9 Brings Simplicity and Sophistication to BI
I attended MicroStrategy's 12th annual user conference in Las Vegas this week where the company unveiled version 9, the next major step for its BI platform. This release brings more than 8,000 enhancements and upgrades along with new products through advancements to the platform and suite of tools to support broad enterprise deployments as well as departmental and workgroup deployments no matter what size of business you operate...
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01.15.2009
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Mark Smith is the CEO and SVP of research at Ventana Research, an advisory services and research firm providing insight and education on best practices and technology in performance management. He writes the Peak Performance blog at IntelligentEnterprise.com.
