Using householding techniques aimed inward can give enterprises better views of themselves and where cost savings can be found.
Aberdeen Group study highlights best practices of Best-in-Class users of real-time business intelligence.
Last week's Teradata-SAP partnership will benefit joint customers and possibly create additional sales opportunities for Teradata.
In many shops, the dream of unified information access remains elusive. An industry expert offers well-honed tips.
Real-time data can turn into an addiction: once you get a taste of it, you'll want more.
Very large data warehouse vendor Compact Solutions will soon release an ETL testing and design tool that works across many environments.
Does IBM's new business analytic services offering address a pressing market need or is it a technology and services solution in search of a market?
Why does designing a scalable, available, and resilient data warehouse sometimes seem like more art than science?
Has the merger mania among data warehousing and business intelligence companies over the past few years strengthened the industry and the products it offers?
Massive amounts of customer transaction records can hamper the analysis BI tools provide -- unless you manage the data properly.
How the terms software-as-a-service and shared services are being used, what they really mean, and where the technologies are headed.
Although an enterprise scope is still seen as the Holy Grail of data warehousing, departmental and even enterprise data marts are now countenanced as well.
Just because you can buy off-the-shelf EIM software doesn’t mean you can also buy an off-the-shelf EIM practice.
In the current climate, the value proposition of open source software is attractive -- maybe irresistible. Product enhancements from Pentaho and JasperSoft help explain why
A new type of business analyst has emerged, and though many have filled that role, little hard research has been done. Recently LyzaSoft and Microsoft looked and came back with similar conclusions.
A new report from AberdeenGroup shows the key role collaboration plays in successful business intelligence
With the advent of several explicit end-user-oriented offerings -- including Microsoft's Project Gemini -- workgroup BI is poised for a comeback.
Microsoft's FAST strategy took still another turn last month when it announced several revisions to its FAST roadmap
Operational business personnel are the next wave of BI users. What will it take to extend BI to these users?
Bulk loading is a big issue for some customers, and -- for those shops that need it -- Greenplum says its new Scatter/Gather Streaming capability can meaningfully accelerate loading times.