Greg Enright

Hockey dominance, better beer, more land mass: just a few of the things that Canadians like to point to when discussing the differences between our country and the still-world-hegemonic power to the south of us. And while it can be convincingly argued that many aspects of the Great White North do truly differentiate us from the U.S., it nevertheless becomes clear on many occasions just how closely bound we are to the ripples that emanate from below the border.

The face of business intelligence tools is changing dramatically, and you need look no further than the announcements coming out of recent BI vendor user conferences to see the alterations in action. What these upcoming changes could represent to IT organizations is an increase in the number of capabilities that the concept of BI can offer.

Microsoft and SAP AG have teamed to work on a new product that will aim to make the task of processing and analyzing the latter company

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Sullivan, of course, was raising the point in order to prove that Hyperion was indeed taking BI to the next step, namely in the form of the vendor

IBM Canada President Dan Fortin sat down with ITWorldCanada.com last week to discuss his company's challenges and his view of the Canadian IT landscape.

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At its annual user conference this week, Hyperion Solutions Corp. launched new products and discussed its upcoming Project Avalanche that will aim to further expand its reach from pure business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools to more business strategy-focused offerings.