Why data aggregation, data exhaust, and metadata are the fundamental building blocks to tomorrow’s business model for organizations of nearly any size.
Using BI and data warehousing tools on data collected from social media applications could allow companies to better store, search, and analyze that data. The founder of a firm that makes a capture and storage platform for social media sees synergies just ahead.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- September 22, 2010
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
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
In a 24/7 marketplace, you need reliable and timely information. We explain the data integration challenges and how to overcome them.
If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, their information consumers will pass them by.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 15, 2010