Hyperion, i2 partner

Hyperion, represented locally by Global Technology, and i2 Technologies have announced plans to integrate Hyperion Essbase into i2`s TradeMatrix e-marketplace platform.

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e-Knowledge, Sagent build digital dashboards

e-Knowledge, an MB Worksoft company, is using Sagent technology to build digital dashboards through Microsoft Outlook 2000.

BMC brings Web-based reporting to the mainframe

BMC Software, distributed locally by CCH Enterprise Solutions, says it has made its Control-D/WebAccess Server available on the S/390 platform, which will enable IBM and compatible mainframes to perform Web-based reporting functions.

New Dawn named Ardent VAR

Ardent Software SA, a data management software company, has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with New Dawn Technologies, an IT company. The arrangement includes the reselling and maintenance of DataStage.

Acta signs up data platform customers

Acta Technology, represented locally by Global Technology BI, says it signed up nine customers within days of announcing its eCommerce Data Platform.

Hyperion receives top SPEX rating

Hyperion, a business analysis software company, says its Essbase OLAP Server 6 has received the highest enterprise software product evaluation rating from SPEX, an end user-oriented IT research company. [Local rep: Global technology Business Intelligence]

AST ESM offers new BMC solution

AST ESM, a division of the JSE-listed AST Group, has introduced BMC Software`s Online/Defrag Advisor database management solution.

How objects and the data warehouse can coexist

Mervyn Mooi, data warehousing consultant at Knowledge Integration Dynamics, outlines how object technology is clashing with data warehousing and suggests possible solutions.

Harrah`s Entertainment Wins Data Warehouse Award with NCR Teradata

Synergy Computing provides SAB with BI solution

SA Breweries International (SAB) has contracted Synergy Computing to deploy Cognos business intelligence (BI) software in several of its African offices in a deal valued at over R1.6 million.

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A new BI mantra for a new millennium

Vendors have hijacked the ideals of business intelligence (BI) to promote their own particular technologies and users are being taken in by the deception.