Category: Business Intelligence

MS Licenses Lapse—What’s Next?

If you’ve grown used to the regular, discounted, bulk software upgrades that were available as part of your Microsoft contract, pay attention: The party’s over.

The Bottom Line Per … Jim Bolte

As the vice president of information systems for Toyota’s North American manufacturing operations, Jim Bolte spends his days figuring out how technology can be used

Software’s Thickening Red Line

The most recent fiscal three-month period just ended will be the second, third, fourth or even ninth consecutive money-losing quarter for some software vendors. Gartner

The End of An Aura

The CIO of the one of the nation’s largest discount merchandisers is calling on the major online retail exchanges, which aspire to provide everything from

New Rx for Pharmaceutical Data

Schering-Plough will pay $250 million to the U.S. government this month—the first portion of a $500 million penalty—after federal regulators found the drug giant violated

Sifting a Riverbed of Data for Insight

Pizza-flavored cheddar cheese—good business opportunity? Yes, as Cabot Creamery determined. Does osteoporosis more often hit wine drinkers or teetotalers? Imbibers, as Kaiser Permanente can tell

SAS Institute: Great for a Reason

The world’s biggest privately held software company, SAS Institute is almost a way of life. That’s true for SAS employees, who get free health care,