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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 […]
August 7, 2006
New technologies aren’t a shortcut for data integration. Whatever application integration tool you use, you still need to integrate data the old-fashioned way — by talking […]
August 5, 2006
Hannah Smalltree interviewed me for the SearchDataManagement.com article: Business Intelligence: Invest Now or Wait? This continues the discussion of what’s going on in the BI industry […]
July 31, 2006
IDC just published its latest report “Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares” on the state of the business intelligence industry . According to IDC’s research, […]
July 24, 2006
Vendor packages may offer the allure of off-the-shelf solutions that take almost no work and instantly provide the business with the answers to all their questions. […]
July 17, 2006
Just because you’re already using a vendor’s ERP system doesn’t mean that their data warehouse package is going to be a quick add-on. If you had […]
July 14, 2006
Business Objects (BOBJ) announced preliminary Q2 2006 results late Thursday and its stock was down 21.5% on Friday. It is over 50% below its 52-week high […]
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 […]
July 11, 2006
Are data governance projects doomed? According to the searchDataManagement.com article “Data governance requires checks and balances, Gartner says,” a recent Gartner study predicts that “by 2008, less than […]
July 6, 2006
IT people tell me they’re implementing dashboards, expecting them to expand the use of their data warehouse/data mart environments and unleash the terabytes of data that […]
July 6, 2006
The 2005 worldwide relational database (RDBMS) market was approximately $14 billion in revenue (IDC estimates $14.6 billion while Gartner, Inc believes it was $13.8 billion) and […]
June 29, 2006
You think so, do you? If you don’t work with the business users, how are you going to know their real needs? How will you understand […]
June 22, 2006
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 […]
June 15, 2006
You can have a great architectural solution, but if it doesn’t meet the business users’ exact needs, they won’t give up their trusty stovepipes. You can […]
June 12, 2006
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 […]
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 8, 2006
Sure they are, but at what cost? When one of them asks a question, their staff and others run off, gather data, manipulate it and produce […]
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 6, 2006
A retailer in Britain has found that data is the rock they need to throw at superpower Wal-Mart as it tries to become a destination for […]
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. […]
May 25, 2006
I hear large corporations admit they spent millions of dollars on data integration projects such as data warehouses, data marts, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and corporate […]
May 18, 2006
One of the techniques we use in our industry is the center of some controversy in the news recently. Specifically, the use of data mining (“The […]
May 11, 2006
Does this sound familiar? Your business users are complaining that they constantly have to debate and reconcile the numbers in different reports. They complain that the […]
May 10, 2006
As Martha Stewart would say, getting information into the hands of business users is a “good thing.” Every enterprise needs to provide accurate, timely information for […]
May 10, 2006
Not only do business users not have tool envy, they probably don’t even want to hear you talk about them. Tools and technology are not first […]
May 2, 2006
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 […]
April 27, 2006
In an acquisition greeted positively by analysts and users, Hyperion Solutions announced it is acquiring privately-held Upstream Software. UpStream’s product, called WebLink DM, provides “a data […]
April 26, 2006
Oracle is serious about business intelligence…this time for sure! Oracle has offered business intelligence in different flavors through different product groupings over the years. But it’s […]
April 25, 2006
Who: DAMA International, Boston Chapter Topic: Rick Sherman’s “Ten Principles for Increasing the Business Value of your Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Investments” When: Thursday May […]
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 […]
April 19, 2006
I was recently asked: “Should we wait until we fix the data quality problems in our source systems before we build a data warehouse?” My answer: […]
April 14, 2006
If you work in IT, you better like alphabet soup: master data management (MDM); customer data integration (CDI); corporate performance management (CPM); business intelligence (BI); enterprise […]
March 12, 2006
Business groups are empowered by knowledge — and knowledge comes, in part, from having access to accurate and timely information. It is generally up to IT […]
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 […]