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March 27, 2007
In The Trial-and-Error Method for Data Integration, I discussed some common data integration mistakes. In this article I point out where companies tend to go wrong in […]
January 17, 2007
Technical people often think that delivering great solutions is the key to satisfying business users. It is not. Delivering the solution users want is the key. […]
January 16, 2007
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. – Captain in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke What is the most likely cause of failed business […]
January 12, 2007
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 […]
November 17, 2006
In the IT industry there is always a lot of discussion (and PR) regarding the best-in-class products. Ask any industry analyst, consultant or IT person who […]
November 15, 2006
It was interesting to read a recent article from DMReview.com “OAUG Survey Reveals Three Out of Four Enterprises Using Oracle Applications Still Use Spreadsheets for Business […]
November 9, 2006
I was at a BI tool regional users group recently where we were discussing people who were long on BI but short on ETL experience. Afterwards […]
October 12, 2006
Lately I have read articles and analysts’ reports discussing whether Corporate Performance Management (CPM) rather than business intelligence (BI) will become pervasive in the future. This […]
September 11, 2006
Compliance, competitive business requirements and increasing data volumes are driving companies to rethink data integration strategies. My first podcast with SearchDataManagement.com gives a comprehensive overview of […]
September 5, 2006
Before operational business intelligence (BI) came on the scene, classifying BI applications was simple: enterprise applications and BI/DW activities were clearly separate domains with their own […]
July 14, 2006
A couple of IT managers recently approached me with a thorny issue. The key business sponsor for their data warehousing effort asked them if they should […]
June 11, 2006
For those in the Boston-area, or anyone else who feels like catching a Red Sox game after a day of data warehouse and business intelligence training, […]
June 7, 2006
I was asked recently if I thought BI suites were a good idea. My answer: sometimes they are and sometimes they aren’t. How’s that for a […]
June 2, 2006
How trustworthy is the data that you provide? Not very, if it has quality problems. Data quality is one of the biggest roadblocks to trusting corporate […]
June 1, 2006
Been there, done that. That’s how we ended up with multiple data warehouses, data marts, and ERP, CPM and SCM solutions that need to be reconciled. […]
April 20, 2006
Your data manager has a list of demands. OK, he isn’t actually holding anyone hostage, but still, take a minute to really listen to what he […]
February 12, 2006
In Align Metadata and Business Initiatives, we discussed the two types of metadata: technical and business. The fact that there are two metadata types may be old […]
January 12, 2006
You don’t often hear “metadata management” and “business initiatives” in the same sentence. It’s time for that to change. Metadata management is the secret ingredient that […]
September 29, 2005
While data warehousing technologies and methodologies have evolved over the years, ideologies, in many cases, have not. Taking a narrow-minded approach to your data warehousing strategy […]
May 12, 2005
Religious wars. We have them in IT all the time. Everyone debates architecture. The “high priests” of our trade guard it. The approaches espoused by Ralph […]
May 12, 2005
Much of the IT literature that you read focuses on tools and technology. That’s understandable, since product vendors churn out these materials to sell and market […]
April 12, 2005
The thought of meta data management doesn’t exactly inspire whoops of joy from the average IT manager. However, like flossing, it’s one of those things you’ve […]
August 12, 2004
This month, we explore the impact of several business intelligence (BI) trends on data integration. These trends include: business (or corporate) performance management (BPM or CPM), […]
July 13, 2004
Reining in the proliferation of expensive, redundant data silos requires a methodical approach that includes establishing a data integration center of expertise. In their quest for […]
April 13, 2004
Too many companies have implemented the “software du jour” – frequently switching to different hardware; operating systems; databases; applications; programming languages; extract, transform and load (ETL) […]