From Talend: Rick Sherman is an author, educator, and a managing partner of Athena IT Solutions. His book, Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics, was published by Morgan […]
Tableau, Power BI and Qlik Sense offer similar self-service BI functionality, consultant Rick Sherman says. But he points to some of their strengths and weaknesses. Purchasing […]
A modern data architecture for business intelligence and analytics has to support structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources, as well as hybrid integration and also meet the […]
Understanding the data integration process is central to self-service BI and data architecture design, consultant Rick Sherman says in an end-of-year look at data management trends. […]
Join me for this webinar hosted by Information Management Live. Thursday November 16, 2017 1 PM ET/10 AM PT The path to fruitful analytics starts with good, […]
I’m excited to share with you that I’ll be presenting two unique sessions at DATAVERSITY’s Data Architecture Summit in Chicago, IL on November 13-16, 2017. I’m also […]
Rick Sherman is quoted extensively in this new TechTarget article: Azure SQL Data Warehouse turns up the heat, expands processing power Abstract: Spirited competition is under way among […]
You wouldn’t modernize a house without fixing its rickety foundation first. Similarly, your BI and analytics environment needs a firm foundation before you can update it. […]
The term self-service BI (SSBI) is common, but it’s also commonly misunderstood. The first few things I ask clients who want to discuss a SSBI project […]
More and more companies are recognizing that they’re accumulating ever-increasing amounts of data, but not necessarily gaining business insights from it. The missing link is the […]
Webinar: An action plan for customer intelligence Understanding the customer is a long-standing goal of BI and Analytics, but striving toward that 360 degree view is […]
Rick Sherman is speaking at DAMA in Wellesley, MA. It’s free and open to the public. Title: Enabling Self-Service BI and Analytics When: Monday April 17, 6:00-8:15 […]
Data integration software is now much more than just extract, transform and load tools — it encompasses a wide range of platforms and technologies supporting real-time […]
The first part of this article discussed columnar database software and other technologies that can help boost analytics performance. But regardless of which analytical database technology […]
What do the iPad and business intelligence (BI) tools have in common? Not as much as they should. Apple has been getting a tremendous amount of free publicity […]
As we discussed in the first part of this article, on-demand business intelligence (BI) software can be less expensive, faster to deploy and easier to use […]
The demand for business intelligence data only continues to increase, putting BI vendors and practitioners under the gun to develop new technologies and improve existing processes […]
There are many emerging data integration strategies and technologies that IT can leverage to create the information needed for their business. When examining these, it is […]
This decade, and especially this recession, has seen a tsunami in demand for the data needed to make sound business decisions. Yet businesses continue to fall […]
What’s the process for evaluating data warehouse software? 1. Establish what data warehouse software you need. The core set of tools: database; extract, transform and load […]
People involved in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) projects are very familiar with terms such as facts, dimensions, attributes, surrogate keys and slowly changing […]
Analyst firm’s product ranking reports such as Gartner’s Magic Quadrants and The Forrester Wave are terrific, but are they being used appropriately? Both provide snapshots of […]
I co-authored the TDWI report Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts: Migrating to a Managed BI Environment. In a survey we conducted in the fall of 2007 we […]
Published by TDWI, October 2007 Q&A: The Ins and Outs of Enterprise Master Data Management Will MDM will succeed where past standardization efforts have failed? By […]
In Part 1 of this article series, “Business intelligence and corporate performance management: What’s the difference?” I discussed the inherent differences between BI and CPM and […]
What is the difference between business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM)? What is the difference between BI and CPM vendors? The answer to the […]
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have created a lot of excitement and buzz. But combine all this SaaS enthusiasm with the business intelligence goals of […]
Data quality management needs to be an integral part of the design and planning of your corporate performance management (CPM), business intelligence (BI) or data warehouse […]
Doctors say that “prevention is the best medicine.” This holds true for data quality management, too. The sooner you identify potential problems the sooner you can […]
Data warehousing (DW) appliances aren’t the only hardware appliances shaking up the industry. New on the scene are business intelligence (BI) appliances, which also have the […]
Data warehousing (DW) appliances are being touted as potential market changing technology by technology and financial analysts alike. Vendors say these bundles of hardware and software […]
Earlier this year, at the 2006 Gartner Business Intelligence Conference, I heard a market prediction that made me wonder if industry-watchers are focusing too far into the […]