BI This Week


Question and Answer: Private Clouds Can Speed Data Access

A private cloud solution allows customers to access giant data centers themselves almost immediately after the data has been collected, thus addressing a long-standing need in the retail sector.

Pervasive Business Intelligence: Still a Vision, Not Reality

BI tools guru Cindi Howson's annual assessment of the BI finds that ratings of success, enterprisewide use dip but business impact still strong.

Business Intelligence 2010: Evolving to Meet Demands of the Changing Business Landscape

We look at four emerging trends that will become prevalent as the year unfolds.

Question and Answer: How Agile Business Intelligence Can Ease Data Access

The challenge of getting access to all of the data that companies now routinely collect can be addressed through more agile methods of access, argues Kevin Scott with Visual Mining.

Come Together: Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management Bleed into Each Other

Tendrils of both BI and ECM are bleeding over and into one another. Although no one’s talking convergence, most concede a kind of limited commingling.

That Was the Year That Was: Major Data Warehousing Events of 2009 (and Predictions for 2010)

A data warehousing analyst examines the accuracy of his 2009 predictions and reveals the top trends he sees coming next year.

The Year Ahead: Information Technology in Transition, Business Intelligence Rising

The CEO of Jaspersoft gazes into his crystal ball to reveal five key trends to watch in 2010.

Question and Answer: Understanding Private vs. Public Clouds

The president and COO of a managed services firm that offers private cloud computing explains the differences between public and private cloud computing and what each is best suited for.