BI This Week


Q&A: Shifting Emphasis on Speed over Consistency Changes Data Landscape

An adaptive decision-making process can bring together business factions and help knit different processes together. Well-known author and consultant Barry Devlin explains how in this, the second part of a two-part interview.

A Closer Look at Looker

Looker claims that its take on BI self-service permits business analysts or other savvy user types to build their own dashboard or analytic views.

Can Hadoop Replace My ETL Tool?

The answer is: It depends. ETL and ELT jobs vary a lot. Hadoop is suitable for some but not others.

Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.

Data Analytics Innovation within Everyone's Reach

Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.

Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.

HDS Buys Pentaho

Hitachi Data Systems has acquired Pentaho, but what was the company thinking?

Hitachi Data Systems acquired open source analytics specialist Pentaho. HDS itself has almost no presence in BI and data warehousing (DW) -- or the big data analytic space, for that matter -- with the obvious exception of its role as a provider of enterprise storage and compute resources. Which begs a pretty pressing question: just what is HDS thinking?

Snowflake Computing: A New Take on a Data Warehouse in the Cloud

Although business analytics is highly personal, the components of an analytic practice -- starting with the data warehouse itself – must be highly personal, too.

Q&A: Mesh Old and New Decision-Making Processes to Drive Your Business Forward

As speed of information becomes paramount, the decision-making process must be adapted to meet changing business needs.

Metanautix: One Analytics Engine to Rule Them All

Start-up Metanautix claims to automate data prep, consolidate query processing, and function as a single analytics engine for all query needs.

Overcoming Challenges in Advanced Analytics

How organizations are improving skills, expanding their technical knowledge, and gaining executive support for next-generation analytics.