Contributor: Mike Shiff
Michael A. Schiff is founder and principal analyst of MAS Strategies, which specializes in formulating effective data warehousing strategies. With more than four decades of industry experience as a developer, user, consultant, vendor, and industry analyst, Mike is an expert in developing, marketing, and implementing solutions that transform operational data into useful decision-enabling information.
His prior experience as an IT director and systems and programming manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful implementation. With Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management and as a certified financial planner, Mike can address both the technical and financial aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence.
All articles by Mike Schiff
Remember virtual warehouses? Is that what enterprise information integration is about?
- By Mike Schiff
- May 31, 2006
The appliances market is maturing, and as more companies explore this relatively new tool, the storage size of appliance solutions keeps growing.
- By Mike Schiff
- March 22, 2006
Many analysts expected Informatica to acquire long-time partner Firstlogic, but the conventional logic was wrong, as Similarity Systems found out.
- By Mike Schiff
- February 1, 2006
Business Objects extends open arms to MySQL; but ‘coopertition’ must be carefully played.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 21, 2005
While business intelligence vendors continue to tout the benefits of platforms, organizations should be as mindful of the minuses as the pluses.
- By Mike Schiff
- October 26, 2005