A data warehouse appliance integrates software and hardware into a single solution from one vendor. The costs and complexities of integrating systems are making appliances increasingly attractive. According to John Santaferraro, marketing manager for HP’s BI portfolio, industry analysts now recommend customers consider a data warehouse appliance. In this interview, Santaferraro discusses what’s behind that advice and offers tips on selecting an appliance.
We explore the changing market dynamics that make now the time for mass adoption of hosted BI.
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Industry experts identify the pratfalls which can sink even the most solid BI project
At its Partners user conference, Teradata announced a new appliance model, showcased the next rev of its database, and hinted at a future SSD appliance
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Information Builders bills InfoAssist as a do-it-yourself or "guided" ad hoc query tool for novice and power users alike
How identity resolution technology can help enterprises correct the increasing incident of errors in customer data
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Data warehousing firms aren't worried about the rising competition from Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and others.
With pervasive BI growing, and barriers to implementation and use dropping, where is BI headed?
Sustainability measurement is coming to BI tools, but slowly. Though a few vendors have products in development, only one has one for sale that can figure intricate carbon footprints across an enterprise or for a single product.
Neutrality in partnerships takes center stage in HP’s data warehousing push
Dynamic business intelligence can quickly deliver answers to business questions, but it can be difficult to implement in today’s technology and business environment.
The Aberdeen Group finds that despite failed attempts to see just one version of the truth, the goal is achievable.
The recent financial turmoil has served to raise awareness that we need to fully understand complex investment products and the benefits and risks they bring.
Microsoft touts an in-memory, column-based Excel data store on every desktop
Today's credit scoring system does a lousy job of predicting customer defaults. SAS's finance architect is out to overhaul it.
Dashboards have become favored executive BI tools because they can present a concise, graphical view of underlying data. Done correctly, dashboards can free technical resources and help move IT out of the reporting business, says Siggi Plommer, president of iQ4bis Software. That can offer a solid return on investment. But perhaps the biggest challenge with dashboards, Plommer says, is ensuring that they are flexible enough to accommodate changing needs, and that they draw on good, solid data on the back end.