Blogs
September 28, 2008
BI and the Financial Crisis
September 19, 2008
Reining in the spreadsheets... into Playmarts
September 14, 2008
Decision Intelligence or Highly Evolved Business
September 1, 2008
Decision Intelligence
August 24, 2008
Instant Gratification vs. Quality Time
Articles
Intelligent Integration Depends on Business Intelligence, Part 4
This final series installment focuses on metadata.
Intelligent Integration Depends on Business Intelligence, Part 3
In this article, Devlin discusses how business intelligence skills can contribute to the user interface for SOA projects.
Intelligent Integration Depends on Business Intelligence, Part 2
Building on Part 1 of this series, this article covers the skills, techniques and knowledge that business intelligence professionals can bring to the current and ongoing SOA craze.
Intelligent Integration Depends on Business Intelligence, Part 1
This article covers the issues of integration and how you can successfully tackle these issues - in both a service-oriented architecture and business intelligence context.
Web 2.0 and the Highly Evolved Business, Part 3
This article examines how the Web 2.0 paradigm impacts the traditional business intelligence world when considered in combination with the simultaneous adoption of an SOA approach.
News
Embarcadero Releases ER/Studio 8.0
ER/Studio 8.0 offers a visual representation of data lineage within an enterprise, allowing data professionals to conduct impact analysis between data sources and targets.
Business.com Announces the Availability of CloudBase
CloudBase is a high performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network.
InforSense Signs a Deal with NorDx
The InforSense system is fully implemented at NorDx and is used to: extract data from billing, laboratory results, patient and cost data sources.
Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre Completes an Upgrade Powered by SAND/DNA Analytics Data Management Software
SAND/DNA Analytics fully leverages the increased processing power of the new platform.
Kognitio and Nextanalytics Announce the Signing of an OEM Agreement
The agreement between the two firms will deliver value to companies that want to implement and benefit from data warehousing,data analytics,business intelligence implementations without high
start–up, operational and support costs.
White Papers
Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts - TDWI Best Practice Report
Spreadsheets are here to stay. In this white paper, TDWI authors Rick Sherman and Wayne Eckerson take a look at the current spreadmart landscape and describe best practices for managing a BI
environment.
Opening the Door to a Service-Oriented Architecture
Collaborative products can provide a doorway for the end user into a new and innovative way of interacting with the IT environment, restructured according to a service-oriented architecture.
IBM Portal and Collaboration Products Switch on SOA
Portal and collaboration products can be used to rapidly build an initial service-oriented architecture, integrating and updating a set of legacy applications and improving productivity.
The Evolution of Office Work, Part 1
On-demand business both requires and drives fundamental, systemic changes in the way businesses operate.
The Evolution of Office Work, Part 2
As business processes are integrated from beginning to end of the value chain, users must be able to move between different parts of the process with ease.
Spotlights
Matthew Everett Krudop, Managing Partner of Intersect Solutions
Matthew Everett Krudop explains how Intersect develops enterprise strategies to improve analytics or achieve data integration with the goal of mitigating the risk associated with data
warehouse/business intelligence creation.
Mayank Bawa, CEO and Cofounder of Aster Data Systems
Mayank Bawa explains how Aster Data Systems' front-line data warehousing allows for always-on, always-parallel, high-performance analytics.
Jim Pflaging, President and Chief Executive Officer of SenSage
Jim Pflaging explains how the SenSage purpose-built data warehouse gives rapid answers from mountains of event-based log data.



