How software-as-a-service can be used with BI, plus a look at the technology's drawbacks and limitations.
Why data federation has earned itself a seat at the data management round table
MDM may not be easy but it's worth the effort.
BI expert looks at two recent trends that have the potential to bring greater adoption of BI to enterprises: Outlook integration and BI search.
A new report explores which BI professionals are drawn to the technology and the self-service benefits it can provide.
Making the most of the 80 percent of data stored as text is the job of this increasing popular technology.
How PowerPivot can be incorporated into your enterprise BI projects.
Users are yearning for more analytic responsibility
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.
Why data aggregation, data exhaust, and metadata are the fundamental building blocks to tomorrow’s business model for organizations of nearly any size.
Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.
A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.
If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, their information consumers will pass them by.
In a 24/7 marketplace, you need reliable and timely information. We explain the data integration challenges and how to overcome them.
Mobile service providers struggle to match data usage to revenues. A new kind of BI can help.
Traditional analytic best practices are slowly being supplanted by what might be called the analytics of the particular.
Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.
At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.
A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.
New information sources demand improved analytics to learn more about customer behavior, employee and supplier relationships, competitors, and the market.