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Linked from TDWI

Call it a case of odd timing: just one day after Microsoft Corp. announced its first-ever companywide lay-offs, its Business Intelligence group announced a lay off and reshuffling of its own. It’s PerformancePoint Server, a performance management (PM) tool that Redmond released 14 months ago, was moved into Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server group.

Officials say there’s no connection — that the reshuffling had, in fact, been planned for months. They concede that the timing, coming on the heels of Microsoft’s first-ever layoffs (and just one day after Redmond reported earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations), is nonetheless unfortunate.

“Part of our regular strategy reviews at Microsoft is looking at what we’re doing relative to what the market is doing — how people are purchasing software, how they’re using it,” says Kristina Kerr, lead product manager with Microsoft’s Business Intelligence product management group.

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Linked from Inside SAP

Business Objects, an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and the world’s leading provider of solutions that optimize business performance, announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites”¹ report.

According to Gartner, “Leaders’ performances excel in the CPM suite market segment. They can deliver breadth and depth of CPM suite functionality, as well as provide enterprisewide implementations to support a broad CPM strategy. Leaders successfully articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, and are supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis.”

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