In this issue of TDWI FlashPoint, Steve Dine explains why data consolidation is the enemy of data integration when it is disguised as integrated data, and Deanne Larson covers the four steps of formalizing and quantifying the value of business intelligence.
At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/25/10
When it comes to analytics, the columnar database debate misses the point.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/18/10
TDWI’s Best Practices Awards recognize organizations for developing and implementing world-class business intelligence and data warehousing solutions. Here are summaries of the winning solutions for 2010.
Why the agile push? Agile proponents cite a litany of familiar complaints.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/04/10
Agile is not a software feature -- it's a process.
Online Social Gaming Company Turns to Visual BI to Delve into Data
- By Linda L. Briggs
- 07/21/10
Could Oracle's Exadata V2 enable a new -- and altogether more ambitious -- approach to enterprise performance management?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/10