Business Intelligence: How to Deploy Analytics Fast
Companies that want to rapidly deploy BI applications across the enterprise, with Big Users and Big Data, need to ensure that they have their data in the right place at the right time. By following Agile BI Methodology, using best-of-breed BI tools, and ensuring adequate database performance, enterprises can achieve…
Business Intelligence: Multiply the Value
The key to getting value from analytics is to deliver high performance to a wide audience. If the BI tool is too slow or dragged down by too many users, it becomes worthless. This is why, in the past, it was impossible to widely deploy BI – the underlying technology…
How to rapidly deploy BI applications across the Enterprise
Business Intelligence applications are the doorway to unleashing the analytic power of your enterprise data warehouse. But more often than not your data remains locked away, inaccessible to all but a handful of users. So you can’t get the answers you need when you need them. What good is the…
Meeting the New Demands of Enterprise Analytics with Business Intelligence
Getting more from your analytic environment is critical to successfully enabling enterprise wide business intelligence. As BI adoption grows within your company, your systems will be challenged by exploding data volumes, greater demands for high-speed analytics and pressure from a growing and pervasive community of users. This expanding user base…
Old cars and data warehouses
I read a post the other day involving two people arguing about which one of their boxes was better. Teradata this. Exadata that. They spent all their time “working” on their system so they had a lot of ammunition for their argument. I suppose if you want to spend your…
Bringing the Analytic Data Warehouse to the Cloud
Previously I wrote about Apple’s Steve Jobs and the importance of great software. Now it’s time for antithesis; Ray Ozzie, who recently announced he was leaving the position he inherited from Bill Gates, that of Microsoft’s chief software visionary. When Ozzie joined Microsoft he released a memo setting out a…