BI This Week


Question and Answer: How Data Infrastructure Enhances Your Bottom Line

In a challenging economy, how can you extend the life of your information systems? One solution is to focus on data quality and consistency.

Open Source Business Intelligence Shines

Companies that have used open source solutions for a decade or more are now looking at that distribution model for their BI tools.

Question and Answer: Making the Leap from Spreadsheets to Models

When spreadsheets become cumbersome and aren't flexible enough to work with you, not against you, then it's time to move up to work with a modeling tool.

The End of Enterprise Software: Open Source Finds an Opening

If the mantra of business today is "faster, better, cheaper," then it's inevitable that companies need to explore alternatives to traditional enterprise software.

Text Analytics to the Rescue

A recent survey suggests a clear and inescapable rise in the consumption -- and importance -- of unstructured data

Paradise Lost: Why Business Intelligence Programs Fall Apart

Three reasons why organizations struggle with BI

Question and Answer: Enterprise Data Sharing Builds on Data Warehousing

How enterprise data sharing builds on earlier models such as data warehousing and XML standards to enable data sharing at an enterprise level.

Analysis: IBM’s $1.2 Billion Acquisition of SPSS

Big Blue’s acquisition of SPSS could herald a return to prominence for statistics gurus, model architects, and other power users. It’s about time, industry watchers say.

Analysis: IBM Rediscovers Itself

Wayne Eckerson examines news from IBM's briefing on Smart Analytics