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Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jan 05, 2012

When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. Although such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions –- opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition.top

High Performance Data Management for Advanced Analytics

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Dec 15, 2011

Big data is putting a big hurt on traditional data warehousing. Data volumes are rising fast, and it’s getting harder to keep up with the variety and velocity of data using standard procedures for extraction, transformation, and loading.top

“Excuse Me, Have We Met Before?” How Knowledge-Based Customer Recognition Helps You Really Know Your Customers

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Dec 14, 2011

For a business, being unable to recognize a customer goes far beyond a faux pas. Inaccurate customer data -- failing to recognize customers -- leads to wasted resources, mediocre marketing efforts, and unhappy consumers.top

Hadoop—Busting its Myths to Reveal its True Value for BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Dec 14, 2011

Despite all the hubbub and hype around Hadoop, few business intelligence (BI) professionals know much about what Hadoop is, how it works, or in which situations they should deploy it. In fact, numerous myths about Hadoop persist among BI professionals and their business counterparts.top

Gotchas That Can Get Ya in 2012: Critical Issues in Supporting Self-Service BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Dec 13, 2011

The recession has forced many companies to do much more with much less – IT is no exception. On the other hand, making smarter decisions faster has never been more important.top