BI This Week


What Makes a BI Platform Agile?

Agile isn't a methodology or a toolset or even a state of mind, Forrester's report argues. If anything, it's a platform play -- just don't call it an enterprise BI platform play.

Getting Girls into IT: Don't Blame Silicon Valley

Everyone is blaming Silicon Valley for the lack of women in IT when the blame lies squarely with females, including, author Cindi Howson explains, herself.

New Survey Highlights Enterprise Use, Benefits of Business Analytics

Executives see benefits, but struggle with unstructured data and knowing where to start.

A Closer Look: Talend's Big Data Sandbox

You can lead someone to the big data lake, but you can't make them take the plunge.

Prepare For Tomorrow By Creating an Agile Data Warehouse Environment Today

Be agile in more than just your development projects or prototypes. We offer 11 tools and techniques to help you build an agile data warehouse environment.

Conquering Your Fears of Master Data Management

MDM is being incorporated into big data and big data sources. What pitfalls must you avoid when deploying or using MDM, and what's ahead for this technology?

Analysis: The Future will be Streamed and Analyzed

The future will be streamed-and-analyzed -- at (or close to) real time.

Is My BI Environment Suited to Enable Data Discovery?

Having data isn't enough. You need to make it easy for decision makers to access, manipulate, and interpret the data.

Data Exploration and Data Profiling Can Make Data Integration More Agile

Agility comes from self-service data access, rapid dataset prototyping, and data stewardship.