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SAP announces that it is buying Business Intelligence software provider Business Objects for $6.8 billion on October 7, 2007.

NCR announced yesterday that it is going to spin off its data warehousing component, Teradata, into a separate entity.� The market reacted favorably to the announcement, sending NCR stock up more than 3% during the day. This announcement makes sense in that there is little synergy between Teradata and NCR’s other businesses.� In addition, Teradata, [...]

This past Monday, Informatica announced that it is buying Itemfield for $55 M.� Itemfield offers data transformation products for unstructured and semi-structured data, which complements Informatica’s current offerings.

On Wednesday, Business� Objects reported Q3 earnings of 41 cents per share after adjustment of� one-time charges,� beating the consensus estimate of� 34� cents.� Revenue was $310.4 M, ahead of the consensus estimate of $295 M.� License revenue was� $132 M (up 9% YoY), while service revenue was $179 M (up 27% YoY). Yesterday, MicroStrategy [...]

Two key players in the data warehousing world, Hyperion and Informatica, both posted quarterly earning yesterday.� The market gave the two companies very different receptions. Hyperion posted revenue of $198.5M during the quarter, higher than the consensus estimate of $191M.� Both� licensing revenue and� services revenue were strong.� Earnings excluding items were 34 cents,� two [...]

BI software vendor Business Objects announced today that it is buying London-based Armstrong Laing for about $56 million in cash. Armstrong Laing’s Enterprise Performance Optimization Suite has strong collaborative planning and multidimensional modeling capabilities. For the latest fiscal year, Armstrong Laing reported revenue of $19 million. The official announcement can be viewed here. Business Objects [...]

I was at SES San Jose, and one thing that was of particular interest to me was the state of web analytics. Having a data warehousing background myself, I was interested to find out what’s the latest and greatest on the analytics side for web traffic analysis. The most popular web analytics vendors were all [...]

Oracle is buying CRM vendor Siebel for $5.85B, which equates to $10.66 per Siebel share. Siebel has sought to be a major player in the data warehousing area with the acquisition of nQuire, which Siebel folded into its suite of offerings as Siebel Analytics. It is unlikely that Oracle will keep the Siebel Analytics component, [...]