Real-world BI usage typically hovers at around 8 percent of all users in an organization -- with just over 11 percent in extremely aggressive BI shops -- a figure much lower than BI vendors would have you believe.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Technology could raise threshold for analysis of  massive amounts of data in real time
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- May 19, 2009
 
            
                
	                
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		            What IT can provide stakeholders
                    IT can provide lines of a variety of stakeholders with original ideas and fresh thinking -- a possibility rarely acknowledged by those outside of IT, who don’t engage often enough.
                    
			            - By Jill  Dyché
- May 19, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Analysis of your customer data is only as good as the quality of the data you’re working with.  We look at best practices for one-time cleaning and ongoing data maintenance.
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
- May 13, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft hit the road last month to talk up PerforrmancePoint, Gemini, and other aspects of Microsoft BI -- and to promise a solution to Microsoft's missing metadata management strategy
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 13, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Database code-named "Kilimanjaro" will offer master data management and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence, reporting, and analytics
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Using householding techniques aimed inward can give enterprises better views of themselves and where cost savings can be found.