BI This Week


Business Intelligence for Small to Medium size Businesses, Part 3: Driving Down TCO

In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate how organizations are managing the total cost of BI implementations.

TV’s Election Coverage: Business Intelligence in Action

Politics can provide many valuable lessons. The power of business intelligence, as clearly demonstrated by the TV election coverage, is one of them.

Business Intelligence for Small and Mid-sized Businesses Part 1: Deployment Strategies

How do the most efficient and effective companies leverage their BI solutions?

How to Avoid the Common Traps in Business Intelligence Implementations

Industry experts identify the pratfalls which can sink even the most solid BI project

Guided Ad Hoc Query Tool for Business Users Takes Load Off Developers

Information Builders bills InfoAssist as a do-it-yourself or "guided" ad hoc query tool for novice and power users alike

Q&A: Identity Resolution Technology Corrects Customer Data

How identity resolution technology can help enterprises correct the increasing incident of errors in customer data

Teradata Unveils Appliance, Data Warehouse Array Technology

At its Partners user conference, Teradata announced a new appliance model, showcased the next rev of its database, and hinted at a future SSD appliance

Up Close: Speed, Parallel Processing, and Massivly Parallel Processing

Neither parallelism (ala Oracle) nor parallelism (ala Microsoft) is classically parallel, or massively parallel (like Teradata, Netezza, and others)

Analysis: Business Intelligence Tools for Sustainability

Sustainability measurement is coming to BI tools, but slowly. Though a few vendors have products in development, only one has one for sale that can figure intricate carbon footprints across an enterprise or for a single product.