Unstructured data holds essential business insights. How can you get to that insight?
Data integration needs are shifting, but vendors, many content with their market share and revenues, simply aren't keeping up with the needs imposed by new data types.
How big is big data, and how can you get it under control?
At some point, advocates argue, data management diehards are going to have to come to terms with something very much like virtualization.
The growing importance of data analysts in business has brought along a few mistaken beliefs about them.
Is this the beginning of a BI SaaS acquisition frenzy?
Reining in data marts is challenging but necessary.
EMC positions the Greenplum HD Data Computing Appliance as a key component in its new Hadoop-centric analytics push.
How to get to the root of ETL and data integration issues.
We explore the benefits and drawbacks of integrating data from social media with your existing BI investment.
TDWI Research's Philip Russom offers commonsense rules for handling the next generation of data integration.
Using analytic software to greatly accelerate the process, Swedish police analyzed years of crime reports and found links that helped them arrest a serial shooting suspect who was terrorizing the area.
Seven tips to help your data analyst give you the best insights from your data.
When it comes to high-end data warehousing, Microsoft isn't promising something it can't deliver: it's been shipping a special release of its SQL Server 2008 R2 database since November of last year.
Amid all the hype, three core principles will help ensure your success with a data warehouse.
TDWI's recent World Conference made the case that change is inherent in BI and DW. BI pros are going to have to accommodate event processing. It's all part of the ongoing transition to Hyper business intelligence.
Why the impact of cloud BI is unavoidable.
The path to data governance starts with small steps.
What’s ahead for BI? We offer five trends happening now that are irreversible and have substantial implications for BI.
Microsoft sees a bifurcated data warehousing market, with Fast Track SQL Server on the low end and SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse at the top.