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Business Intelligence: Identifying Information That Really Matters

Posted in: Uncategorized - May 20, 2011

Being able to separate key information from the mountains of data we all collect in our organizations is critical. Even more critical is being able to provide our key decision-makers with the right amount of information in the right format at the right time so they can make intelligent strategic decisions. - Lately there has been a great deal of focus on the topic of business intelligence--and with good reason. Being able to separate key information from the mountains of data we all collect in our organizations is critical. Even more critical is being able to provide our key decision-makerswith the righ...top

Business Intelligence Tool Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Posted in: Business Intelligence - May 19, 2011

Enterprise wide BI architecture utilizes a multitude of tools within its landscape each serving a specific functionality -– including extract, transform, and load (ETL), data cleansing, metadata management, databases (both relational and multidimensional), reporting and analytics (OLAP), and data mining. In the OLAP domain alone there are more than 40 different products that might solve a customer problem. Imagine the number of combinations possible when all the tool options are combined across the overall landscape. No wonder one of the most challenging and vexing problems in business intelligence is tool evaluation.top

Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud

Posted in: Business Intelligence - May 10, 2011

This TDWI Checklist Report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications.top

Seven Steps to Rejuvenating your Strategic BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - May 10, 2011

Remember Executive Information Systems (EIS)? What ever happened to them and why did they never catch on? Linking business strategy to operational execution is even more important for senior executives today and business intelligence can now help.top

Business Intelligence: Five Tips for Managing Data

Posted in: Uncategorized - May 07, 2011

Many companies dump data in a data warehouse, says Accentures Jeanne Harris. The problem with that is: Now you dont have a data warehouse; you have a data dump. - The way Jeanne Harris sees it, most companies havent put enough thought into how they extract insight from the increasingly massive pools of data theyre collecting. Harris ought to know. As executive research fellow and director of research for Accentures Institute for High Performance, Harris i...top