Business-critical data resides in more than one domain, which is why enterprises must manage master data across domains with great care.
                    
			            - By Marty  Moseley
- September 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Three new offerings combine HP and Informatica products.  Is even closer collaboration in their future?
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business intelligence delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS) seems to be on the cusp of a wave of popularity, but it also brings some risks, as the recent demise of SaaS BI company LucidEra indicates. What's the future of SaaS BI and data warehousing in the cloud, and how can companies mitigate the risk?
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
- September 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Companies that improve database infrastructures by moving from a row-based to a column-based architecture can expect immediate improvements in query responses and report generation speed.
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
- September 16, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    About one-quarter of shops use open source BI tools; even more are evaluating them.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 16, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Even the fastest bandwidth may not be able to keep up with data intensity of BI applications, so what must change?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How data visualization techniques can encapsulate vast amounts of data into intensely visual and data-rich displays.
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
- September 9, 2009