Business Objects named leader
Forrester Research has named Business Objects as a leading vendor in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms with the strongest current product offering across all vendors, says Market Watch.
The July 2008 report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008, indicates that Business Objects delivers a rich set of mature, best-in-class BI tools.
Through hands-on lab evaluations, vendor surveys and customer-reference calls, Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of 12 enterprise BI platform vendors found that Business Objects achieved the highest scores for their current offering.
MicroStrategy continues growth trend
MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of BI software, recently announced financial results for the three-month period ended 30 June 2008 (the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year), reports Fox Business.
Second quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations was $88.9 million versus $78.1 million for the second quarter of 2007, a 14% increase.
This marked the twenty-second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth.
Baker exits Microsoft
Bill Baker, one of the most visible and long-serving members of the Microsoft BI team, is leaving the company at the end of August to become CTO of Visible Technologies, a text-mining and analytics-related services start-up based in Seattle, says Intelligent Enterprise.
Baker is currently a distinguished engineer and GM of BI applications for the Microsoft Office Business Platform team.
A statement issued by Microsoft's public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom, praised the executive saying: "Bill has been integral to growing the Microsoft BI business from a small start-up within the SQL Server product group to the thriving core business it is today."
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