Business users are going to consume non-traditional data with or without IT's approval. Experts say data management groups must strive to make consumption of this information predictable and governable.
Real-time data integration can give companies competitive advantages. Although integrating data from several sources has become vastly more complex, there’s an upside: the integration gives you a much richer view of data.
Lessons from Web search and Web 2.0
We look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Business Objects' Predictive Workbench.
Poor ad hoc query performance was the motivating reason behind the rise of data warehousing in the late 1990s -- and it's still a problem today.
In spite of consolidation and a weaker U.S. economy, the BI industry increased at near-breakneck speed, growing 13 percent in the last year.
Just when you thought it was safe to close the book on your enterprise ETL options, along comes data integration upstart Expressor Software
Data warehouse practitioners, IT users, and employees in general may find that being "green" is much easier than ever before.
Growing data volumes are challenging BI practitioners and IT staff alike. We explore new approaches to dealing with the problem.
Leaving sensitive data unprotected isn’t just bad business, it can be costly, and it can leave companies at risk of compliance violations with a variety of government and industry regulations.
The HP/Oracle appliance is optimized for what officials call the sweet spot of the DW appliance market -- the 1-4 TB range
QL2 specializes in indexing and querying the most complex unstructured data
We explore ten things you can do now to prepare your organization for your MDM initiative.
ETL technology has certainly not been stagnant, and neither have the many technologies surrounding it. Sweeping changes in users, technology, and culture have affected how this tool is used and by whom. We talk with Arman Eshraghi, CEO of LogiXML, about what ETL users need to know about how changes to technology have affected ETL.
Even though BI search is an established technology, information retrieval problems still plague many organizations. ChartSearch says it can help.
Organizations should be feeding actionable insights to decision-makers further on down the line. That's where the ROI lies, according to Information Builders.
The parade of "green" data has arrived -- though most of it is one marketing pitch after another. Meanwhile, real problems and likely solutions stay on the sidelines.
Is the industry delivering tools that make it easier for mid-market customers to take the BI plunge? The answer: absolutely.
When BI vendors target small-and-medium-sized enterprise customers, the mid-market isn't the only segment that benefits
By following a four-step process, organizations can embark on an effective performance management journey that begins with reporting and adds more core BI capabilities for enterprise-wide integration.