Oracle Corp. said Tuesday that it is folding its OLAP (online analytical processing engine), data mining, and ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) tools into its database engine with the release of 9i, expected in the second half of next year. The goal is to make BI tools accessible to more users.
Now that the dot-com craze has slowed down and the gold dust has settled, both start-ups and old-guard brick-and-mortar companies are in a better position than ever to incorporate the Web into their business models, several executives said Wednesday at BEA Systems Inc.'s E-Commerce in San Francisco.