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Considering that Microsoft is eager to win the battle around the business intelligence and reporting market against Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion, BO’s recent announcement to acquire Infomersion comes as a surprise (I would have guessed Microsoft will…). Infomersion are the authors of a flash-based quite smart report-visualitzation tool called XCELSIUS which nicely fits into the MS BI architecture, is very simple to handle and delivers highly professional dynamic reports, which among many other methods can be delivered via web or dynamically integrated into Power Point presentations. According to Microsoft sources XCELSIUS is even being used quite extensively for internal purposes at Microsoft.
Strategically it could definitely have been a good move to snap this relatively small company from it’s competitors…

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As PALO seems follow the exactly same concept as Applix TM/1 and MIS ALEA, it will be interesting to see what this does to their respective product strategies and pricing. MIS focuses much more on Applications, so Applix will be more vulnerable in this respect. This is only relevant of course if PALO performance rocks!

Jedox, the authors of Worksheet Server have released their first version of a new open source OLAP Server called Palo. Check it out!

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