It’s the time of year when analysts, consultants, vendors and industry pundits publish their predictions on the trends that they feel will have significant impact on […]
DM Radio, Thursday August 21 3:00 EST When business pros can’t get the functionality they really want from IT, they often go rogue. That’s where shadow […]
What are some common mistakes that business intelligence managers and architects make when planning and designing a business intelligence system? BI managers and architects generally do […]
Predictive analytics and data visualization are data-hungry processes. An enterprise data warehouse is often a critical part of the data backbone that these processes crave. IT’s […]
Once an enterprise gets beyond the hype and sets out to implement predictive analytics, success will depend on how they approach it. As with anything new, our […]
When I teach my master’s degree classes I use slides to present the theoretical, and then use workshops to illustrate how the theory applies to design […]
It’s time to stop getting bossed around by technology. IT groups too often create their list of projects and priorities based on a logical and mainly […]
As we discussed in the last post, the four organizational models most often used to implement ICCs are: best practices, technology standards, shared services and centralized […]
You have the sponsorship and budget, now how do you set up your Integration Competency Center (ICC)? There are several approaches to organizing the role and […]
Some of my recent posts have discussed how people, politics and projects have established integration silos throughout an enterprise that are costly, inefficient and inhibit the […]
In the last several posts we discussed how critical data governance programs are to the success of EDW, MDM, CDI and really any enterprise-wide integration initiatives. […]
Businesses are awash with ever-increasing amounts of data created in their transaction systems and then used by business executives and workers striving to analyze all of […]
It’s a vicious battle. No, I am not talking about the partisan wars between the Democrats and Republicans, but this battle also impedes progress. Nor am […]
As we discussed in my last People, Process & Politics post, the four organizational models most often used to implement ICCs are: common practices, technology standards, […]
In our “People, Process & Politics” series we have discussed how non-technical aspects of business intelligence, data integration or data warehousing projects are the critical components of […]
The publishing of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves is eagerly awaited by vendors in many IT categories, particularly those who scope in the “top” quadrant […]
Some clichés ring truer with experience and this one is re-enforced by countless DW, BI and performance management projects. Most of these projects have a plan […]
The “Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus” posting in the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology blog on June 6 produced very […]
People, process and governance issues – that’s where companies are spending their time, energy, and money rather than on technology according to Gartner analysts in a […]
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. […]
It’s tempting to ignore this. However, the promise of business results is what gets a project staffed and implemented; therefore, an internal awareness and marketing campaign […]
What’s with all the animosity between IT and business users? Christopher Koch provided a summary of the string of hate-posts from Slashdot, where it got so […]
Have you ever wondered why companies buy software licenses from BI vendors for hundreds or even thousands of “seats” and only use a small fraction of […]
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 […]