Business Intelligence


BI for the Masses, iPad Style

An overwhelming majority of organizations believe mobile BI will play an important -- perhaps even critical -- role in their information futures.

How Better Prototyping Can Improve BI

BI projects are expensive, time-consuming, and risky. Advanced prototyping can bring IT and business users together.

Good Data Governance Finally Taking Hold

Enterprises finally seem serious about grappling with what makes for good data governance.

Analysts in Action: Getting Analytics Off the Test Track

Business intelligence vendors still seem to run on a test track while users just want to get on the road with data.

Designing Parallelism into the Data Integration Models

How data integration developers can include parallelism into data integration models.

11 Big-Data Analytics Predictions for 2011

In 2010 we learned that big data doesn’t mean big insights. What will we learn this year?

John oBrien

Why Agile BI Needs an Agile Architecture

To react quickly to a changing regulatory environment, BI projects need a flexible and robust -- and agile -- underlying architecture.



A Prescription for Public-Sector Big Data Woes

Instead of just reporting on data, shops should be exploring their data. This is particularly true in government, where very large data sets can benefit from cutting-edge visual data exploration technologies.

Cindi Howson

From the BI Scorecard Blog: BI Licensing and Lawsuits—A Sure Sign of Failure

Buyers must beware, and vendors must simplify their licenses.

Analysts in Action: The Rise of the Intelligent Analyst

Far from being “crushed” by IT, intelligent analysts seem to be emerging stronger than ever in business.

Analysis: A Closer Look at HP's Acquisition of Vertica

HP seems ready to make yet another run at BI superstardom.

Q&A: Why Data Virtualization is More Relevant than Ever

Composite Software executive VP Robert Eve discusses the evolution of data virtualization and exactly how the technology can be used to address today's data management challenges.

Five Steps to More Effective Government 2.0 Initiatives

By investing in a strategy of goal-setting, measurement, and adjustment, government agencies can turn social media from a random, trendy exercise into an accurate, effective initiative that can support their larger organizational strategies and goals.

InetSoft Gets Agile BI Right

InetSoft positions its new Style Intelligence 11.0 release as a BI offering for the most agile of agile BI practitioners.

Q&A: Solid Value Proposition a Key to MDM Success

MDM, data quality programs need value proposition to succeed

How the Federal Government Can Get Ahead of the Impending Data Revolution

The federal government -- and its BI community -- needs to go real-time. The time to prepare is now.

Gartner and "Good Enough" Data Integration

Data Integration leaders are under pressure from "good enough" competitors. This gives non-dominant players a golden opportunity to contest the status quo.

How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop

With a flurry of recent BI-oriented partnerships, it's no surprise Cloudera is attracting so much interest.

Oracle Releases Cloud File System

Oracle has released software aimed at letting organizations build private clouds by adding elasticity to their applications via a clustered file system.

MDM Trends: The Good, The Bad, and The Inevitable

To provide your organization with the foundational components necessary to build competitive advantage and to be market responsive, take a look at the good, bad, and inevitable aspects of master data management.