Business Intelligence


New Report Helps Users Get Up to Speed on Hadoop

A new report from TDWI helps users understand the basics of Hadoop and MapReduce.

BI Teams Need to Take a Page from Apple's Book

BI teams need to focus on what business users want most.

Why IBM Wants to Put Mainframes at the Center of BI

IBM asks the not-so-obvious question: If you already have a mainframe in-house, why not make it the centerpiece of your business intelligence and data warehouse efforts?

Redefining the Data Integration Problem Set

Phasic Systems touts a combination of software, services, and even naysaying as an effective solution for effective enterprisewide governance.

Q&A: Archiving Tools Apply BI to E-mail

Sophisticated e-mail archiving solutions can generate business intelligence from stored e-mail messages.

Big Data Killed the Data Modeling Star

Big data offers BI professionals new ways of making information work for the business.

Q&A: How BI Competency Centers Can Add Business Value

HP's Chris Carney explains how a business intelligence competency center can help align BI efforts and needs across the enterprise, bringing real business value.



5 Macro Trends Shaping Next-generation BI and Analytics

The traditional BI stack has failed. What's next?

JackBe is sMashing BI Barriers

The beauty of the BI mashup is that it makes it easy to expose any kind of information -- including data you wouldn't typically want to bring into a data warehouse.

TDWI Report Explores Challenges, Lessons Learned from Mobile BI Deployments

A new report from The Data Warehousing Institute discusses the how and the why of mobile BI.

BI Experts: Why Enterprise Data Strategies Must Support Business Goals

Success with enterprise business goals demands strategies for enterprise data.

2012: Year of Cloud BI

There’s no doubt that customers will continue their migration from in-house BI to BI in the cloud. We explore best practices for cloud BI and the limitations this technology imposes.

Q&A: Analytics, Unstructured Data, and the Growth of Social Media

What are the common misperceptions about unstructured data are explored, and how can this data be exploited for game-changing insights?

Q&A: Managing the Risks of Offshore Data Warehousing

Moving a data warehouse offshore can bring significant cost savings, but such a move introduces elements of risk that must be managed.

4 Performance Management Trends to Watch in 2012

Performance management solutions have been around for years, but momentum is building, as these four future trends reveal.

Q&A: Mobile, Search, and Cloud Top "Cool BI" Innovations

In this two-part interview, well-known BI analyst and TDWI faculty member Cindi Howson discusses some of the top innovations affecting business intelligence, in keeping with her annual "Cool BI" list of business intelligent innovations.

Q&A: Moving Beyond Traditional Data Virtualization

Composite Software VP Robert Eve has co-written a new book on data virtualization. In this interview, he describes going beyond traditional data virtualization and discusses some of the lessons from the book's 10 high-profile case studies.

10 Key Elements of Your Data Strategy

We look at the 10 key details your data strategy must address and suggest a good place to start formulating your strategy.

BI Experts: Good Data Strategy is Good Business Strategy

Director of TDWI Research David Stodder looks at three major trends that he sees shaping the development of data strategies.

BI 2012: The Future that has Already Happened

Eight current trends that yield insight into BI's future.