BI This Week


Q&A: Pair Appliances and Virtualization to Beef Up Performance

Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.

Survey Explores Performance Management in Practice

A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.

Agile Meets Integration at TDWI Conference

At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.

What's Essential -- And What's Not -- In Big Data Analytics

When it comes to analytics, the columnar database debate misses the point.

Talend Enhances Data Integration with MapReduce Support

MapReduce is usually thought of as an enabling technology for Big Data analytics. Talend says it can help supercharge data integration, too.

Under the Hood of Oracle's Revamped BI Suite

Does Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g "close the loop?"

The Analytics of Web Data

New information sources demand improved analytics to learn more about customer behavior, employee and supplier relationships, competitors, and the market.

An Imperative to Build, Not Buy, Agile BI

Why the agile push? Agile proponents cite a litany of familiar complaints.

TDWI Report: Getting the Greatest BI Bang for Your Buck

You don't have to have a Global 2000 budget to reap the benefit of BI.