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Lesson from the Experts: Giving Business Users the Power to Make Data Actionable
Posted in: Business Intelligence - Oct 29, 2008Most business users don’t have access tothe data they need to make better decisions,although most of this data already resides intheir company systems. Search technologycan find data if it exists in a cell, report, ordocument that someone else has generated.But if you’re looking for something new—aggregated, summarized, or trending data thatrequires you to create a new report—thenyou’ll need a technology that conducts analysisas well as search. Historically, businessintelligence (BI) tools have been the answer,but usability has limited accessibility andprevented positive results. TDWI researchreports adoption rates in the low 20%range of users within the enterprise.(Wayne W. Eckerson, TDWI’s Best of BI,Vol. 5, 2007, “Contemplating Consolidation,”p. 14.) The problem is not just the complexityof BI tools, but the need to understandthe data—where it’s stored, what it’s called,and how it’s structured. IT and BI analystshave historically owned the data and accessto it, because they know how to get at it andhave learned the tools of the trade used toleverage it.top
Lesson from the Experts: Finding the Right Answers in a Sea of Data
Posted in: Business Intelligence - Oct 29, 2008One of the best approaches to visually communicatedata anomalies or business opportunities tonontechnical audiences is through the use ofadvanced visualizations.top
Lesson from the Experts: Three Essential Components of an Enterprise Reporting Environment
Posted in: Business Intelligence - Oct 29, 2008Enterprise reporting environments aredesigned to support many types of userswith ad hoc query, reporting, and online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities. Usefulas these tools have become, however, manyorganizations fail to deploy them properly orto fully understand their power.top
Lesson from the Experts: Scaling Very Large Data Warehouses in an MPP and Grid World
Posted in: Business Intelligence - Oct 29, 2008Corporate data warehousing has seen dramaticincreases in volume and complexity over the last several years. Increasingly stringent regulatory requirements coupled with dramatic business success stories have catapulted organizations towards low-cost DW appliances to manage VLDW (very large data warehouse) projects. Indeed, VLDW projects in the hundreds of terabytes are increasingly commonplace. There are considerationsbeyond speed and price, however. The processes,methods, and resources required to successfully realize an enterprise VLDW deployment on these appliance technologies must keep pace with the eye-popping performance metrics.top
Lesson from the Experts: SAP BI: A Robust New Platform for Enterprise BI
Posted in: Master Data Management - Oct 29, 2008SAP AG recently announced its businessintelligence (BI) product roadmap and notsurprisingly, it is based upon the businesswarehouse (BW) foundation—along with anoptional hardware appliance—a BI Accelerator—to enhance query performance.top
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