BO Data Services XI 3.0

BO Data Services is a new offering from Business Objects.

Well, it looks like a new bundling and not a new product by itself.

BO Data quality + BO Data Integrator = BO Data Services.

I tried to gather some information regarding this. Here is what I have found so far.

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Times.. they are changing.

Looks like traditional data warehousing will soon be taken over by a sea of changes.

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Integration of OLTP with DW? Read about it here.

Here is a discussion on new approaches in DW.

If you want to know Werner’s opinion on the future of Business Objects Data Integrator (BODI), see here.

Appears like BO Data quality + BO Data Integrator = BO Data Services. A discussion on it here.

And is Informatica the next acquisition target? Some say maybe… some say no.

Yahoo pipes vs ETL

If you are an ETL developer, you would be handling sources like Oracle, DB2, flat files, etc.

What if your source was a website? Or a Yahoo search result? And what if you could play around with multiple websites, blogs, flickr, custom searches… mash it up together, edit and transform it to create your own version of what you want to read.

Welcome to Yahoo Pipes!

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SAP to buy Business Objects

Hmmm….. sounds interesting.

There was this news some weeks ago.

Now, there’s more to it. Read more at this link.

Oracle bought Hyperion. Now SAP wants BO. What will Microsoft do ????

Whats the future of Cognos or Informatica?

Will there be cosolidation in the business intelligence space? Looks obvious.

If you are working on Business objects tools, will SAP buyout help you? Will SAP (strong player in ERP) be keen on BI? Does it make sense?

Okay. For better reading on this topic, see these links.

SAP buys Business Objects – good news for IBM

SAP To Acquire Business Objects: A Complicated Merger