Business Intelligence


Q&A on Emerging Technologies: SaaS BI

How software-as-a-service can be used with BI, plus a look at the technology's drawbacks and limitations.

How Data Federation Can Co-exist with an EDW

Why data federation has earned itself a seat at the data management round table

Q&A: MDM Proving Its Value at Health Services Company

MDM may not be easy but it's worth the effort.

Cool BI: Outlook and BI Search

BI expert looks at two recent trends that have the potential to bring greater adoption of BI to enterprises: Outlook integration and BI search.

Survey Reveals What’s Driving SaaS BI

A new report explores which BI professionals are drawn to the technology and the self-service benefits it can provide.

Q&A on Emerging Tech: Analyzing the Voice of Your Customer

Making the most of the 80 percent of data stored as text is the job of this increasing popular technology.

PowerPivot's Role in Enterprise BI

How PowerPivot can be incorporated into your enterprise BI projects.



Pervasive Analytics: Are You Being Served?

Users are yearning for more analytic responsibility

Q&A: Social Media and BI Overlap Ahead

Using BI and data warehousing tools on data collected from social media applications could allow companies to better store, search, and analyze that data. The founder of a firm that makes a capture and storage platform for social media sees synergies just ahead.

Data Deluge or Opportunity?

Why data aggregation, data exhaust, and metadata are the fundamental building blocks to tomorrow’s business model for organizations of nearly any size.

In Search of BI ROI

Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.

Metadata Management: An Imperative for Your Enterprise

A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.

The Agile Data Warehouse: Keeping Users Happy

If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, their information consumers will pass them by.

Winning the Quest for Reliable and Timely Data

In a 24/7 marketplace, you need reliable and timely information. We explain the data integration challenges and how to overcome them.

Mobile Data Intelligence: The Next-Generation BI

Mobile service providers struggle to match data usage to revenues. A new kind of BI can help.

Why Analytics Must Focus on Outliers and Idiosyncrasies

Traditional analytic best practices are slowly being supplanted by what might be called the analytics of the particular.

Q&A: Pair Appliances and Virtualization to Beef Up Performance

Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.

Agile Meets Integration at TDWI Conference

At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.

Survey Explores Performance Management in Practice

A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.

The Analytics of Web Data

New information sources demand improved analytics to learn more about customer behavior, employee and supplier relationships, competitors, and the market.