Business Intelligence


Letters to the Editor: The BI Platform Wars are Not Over

A BI analyst and TDWI faculty member takes issue with a BI This Week article about the state of BI platforms.

Q&A: R 101

R is a high-powered language for analyzing today’s data volumes.

Planning a PowerPivot for SharePoint Deployment

Learn how PowerPivot for SharePoint expands the capabilities of the desktop client and SQL Server Analysis Services.

Post-Acquisition, EMC/Greenplum Questions Answered

EMC’s release last month of its first post-Greenplum deliverable -- the EMC Greenplum Data Compute Appliance -- helped answer a few lingering questions.

Kapow Touts Insurgent Data Integration

Data management pros are likely to have very strong feelings about what Kapow does and how it does it.

The BI Revolution: Business Intelligence's Future

We've entered the third major generation of the BI market. Learn how it's fundamentally different than its predecessors.

Q&A: Teradata Sees Opportunity in New Technologies

Social media and unstructured data offer some exciting opportunities for your enterprise.



Careers: Starting Salaries Predicted to Rise in 2011

Some skills are more in-demand than others -- and some industries (such as health care and business services) are paying more.

At Partners Conference, Teradata Reloads

Teradata likes to use its Partners conference as a launching pad for its splashiest product announcements. This year's event was no exception.

Mobile BI Survey Sheds Light on Use, Ubiquity

A new survey looks at what users want, how pervasive mobile BI is and will be within two years, and stresses how vendors must keep us with fickle users.

Partner Products Come to Fore at Teradata User Conference

Kalido, Information Builders, and Expressor Software announce products.

Clickstream Data Warehouse: Bleeding Edge or Mainstream?

The ability to know what people want by observing how they think as you follow their clickstream data is a powerful way to support business decisions.

Pervasive Analytics Revisited

A new study suggests that one key to driving analytic uptake is to put analytic technologies into the hands (or at the fingertips) of more users.

Reading the IBM/Netezza Tea Leaves

Few industry watchers foresee much in the way of serious overlap between Big Blue's existing data warehousing assets and Netezza's. However, IBM will probably have to make some tough choices, particularly on the software side.

In Praise of Operational Data Warehousing

Real-time or not real-time is no longer the question.

Building Creative PowerPivot Solutions

Creative ways to leverage PowerPivot.

Toward Pervasive BI: A New Generation of Analytic Applications

The best analytic applications will help improve business processes, monitor and manage critical business events, and deliver richer information through both contextual relevance and analytic insight.

Q&A: Emerging BI Technologies

Emerging tech is the theme of Orlando TDWI conference. BI expert and conference speaker Steve Dine leads us through the latest in BI innovations and trends.

Sybase Survey Reveals Analytics Paradox

IT sees value of Analytics, but few have formalized analytics plan.

Pervasive BI Still Eludes Enterprises, Survey Reveals

Only about one in ten enterprises has deployed BI to a majority of its users.