The record Federal government deficits are a catalyst for identifying fraud and misuse of Federal funds; data warehouse technology will almost certainly facilitate this analysis because it will be necessary to integrate numerous, disparate data sources, clean and consolidate them, and utilize business intelligence tools.
- By Mike Schiff
- September 9, 2010
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.
Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- August 25, 2010
A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.
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
- August 25, 2010
Sybase IQ offers quick deployment, cost reduction and fast ROI for HP Servers
Best practices to implement self-service BI properly
- By Wayne Eckerson
- August 19, 2010
When it comes to analytics, the columnar database debate misses the point.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 18, 2010