Hard BI benefits -- such as reductions in costs or in employee headcounts -- remain frustratingly elusive, according to a new survey.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2010
A new report delves into the importance, use, and management of metadata and how it's become a critical component for your enterprise.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2010
IBM’s $1.7 billion acquisition of Netezza is the second major DW-related acquisition this year, following EMC’s purchase of analytic database specialist Greenplum this summer. Netezza effectively inaugurated the DW appliance segment: forming in 2001, launching in 2003, going public in 2007, and turning a profit in 2008. Other players came first; it took Netezza to invent the category.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 20, 2010
New Aster Data nCluster 4.6 extends the power of SQL-MapReduce to hybrid row and column DBMS, enabling richer analytic applications
Tools enhance mobile BI apps; solution provides best mobile view
Mobile service providers struggle to match data usage to revenues. A new kind of BI can help.
Traditional analytic best practices are slowly being supplanted by what might be called the analytics of the particular.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 15, 2010