When it comes to BI deployments, organizations should not be "penny wise and pound foolish."
In this interview, Mike Masciandaro, Business Intelligence Director for global specialty chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, offers pointers on starting a brand new BI program within a company. Masciandaro headed the highly lauded rollout at Rohm and Haas of SAP’s BI software, an investment of over $300 million.
GreenPlum has a plum perch in the sizzling DW appliance market
If you're looking for flexibility and convenience, Saint Joseph's online MSBI program might be for you. Better get those GMAT scores ready, however.
BI and DW players are touting the benefits of Green IT with products designed to help customers reduce their power and cooling costs
Highlights from a keynote address at TDWI’s MDM Insight conference
Actuate’s Rich Guth discusses an annual survey of enterprise users that shows a high acceptance of open source BI in the enterprise. Guth also shares tips on when and where to consider open source BI for your enterprise, if you haven’t already.
How did one Las Vegas keynote speaker make listeners pick up a handout to read along? Simple techniques can make all the difference.
Partnership will result in improved integration between Teradata Warehouse and Oracle's BI assets
An updated Reporting Services may finally be worth considering
Like the z9 EC and z9 BC systems that preceded it, IBM's System z10 drastically alters the rules of the mainframe game.
Symphony Metreo CEO Tal Ball discusses the challenges today’s companies face in improving the operational effectiveness. Business analysts face huge challenges in making sense of disaggregated bits of information from across the enterprise, but new tools and approaches can help.
Partners say new integration between Cognos 8 and Clementine can help accelerate predictive analytic deployments
Sypherlink can help automate the identification and mapping of data -- and it has the patents to prove it.
What separates a "performance" dashboard from its vanilla dashboard brethren?
Are customers -- many of whom are still satisfied with SQL Server 2000 -- interested in an upgrade to Microsoft's SQL Server 2008?
Informatica says it can help accelerate data migrations while reducing risk.
What's the impact to your BI projects if your vendor misses an update schedule?
After a tumultuous year of consolidation, the BI industry outlook seems as busy -- and as interesting -- as ever
Users say PerformancePoint lets them preserve existing business processes and roll out BPM capabilities to hitherto untouched constituencies