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Exective Summary: Smart Companies in the 21st Century: The Secrets to Creating Successful Business Intelligence Solutions

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jul 21, 2003

Smart companies in the 21st century use business intelligence (BI) solutions to gain a clearer pictureof their internal operations, customers, supply chain, and financial performance. They also derivesignificant ROI by using business intelligence to devise better tactics and plans, respond more effectively to emergencies,and capitalize more quickly on new opportunities. In short, they are using business intelligence to becomeintelligent about the way they do business.top

Executive Summary: Evaluating ETL & Data Integration Platforms

Posted in: Master Data Management - Mar 14, 2003

ETL is the heart and soul of business intelligence (BI). ETL processes bring together and combinedata from multiple source systems into a data warehouse, enabling all users to work off asingle, integrated set of data—a single version of the truth. The result is an organization thatno longer spins its wheels collecting data or arguing about whose data is correct, but one thatuses information as a key process enabler and competitive weapon.top

Evaluating ETL and Data Integration Platforms

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Mar 14, 2003

The report found that organizations today need to move more data from more sources more quickly into a variety of distributed business intelligence applications. To manage this data flow, ETL tools will need to evolve with a host of new functionality including parallel processes that capture data in near real time, enhanced administration to ensure reliable operations and high availability, and connectivity to a wider variety of different systems. Additionally, to simplify and speed the development of complex designs, the tools will need a visual work environment that allows developers to create and reuse custom transformation objects.top

ETL Matrix

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jan 13, 2003

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TDWI’s Data Quality Report

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Feb 01, 2002

Data Quality and the Bottom Line: Achieving Business Success through a Commitment to High Quality Datatop