BI This Week


Are Enterprises Getting Serious About Governance?

Thanks to big data and self-service BI, enterprises might finally be getting serious about data governance.

Big Data Challenging the Status Quo

Big data is about mixing, mashing, and commingling all kinds of (seemingly unrelated) information together. This has big implications for BI and data warehousing.

BI/DW Agility: Go Faster, But Not Too Fast

Organizations implementing agile methods have to ensure that project schedules allow for enough iteration to enable agile teams to uncover and incorporate new requirements into their applications. Only then will the faster pace of development create a faster path to information advantage.

Informatica Takes on Big Data

Informatica's PowerCenter Big Data Edition is more than just a Hadoop DI tool: it even includes vanilla PowerCenter.

Big Data from a BI View

Big data developments unveiled at sold-out Strata Conference in New York.

NuoDB: A Database for the Cloud

There are two big problems associated with data warehousing in the cloud -- agile elasticity and ACID compliance. NuoDB, a database startup, aims to address both of them.

From Users to IT -- How Tableau Broadens Its Appeal

Tableau first cracked the enterprise by inspiring envy among users. Increasingly, it's trying to do the same thing with IT.

Not Your Father's BI: Situational Intelligence in a Real-Time World

Together, six categories of intelligence will give your enterprise the "360° insight" it needs to succeed.

Going Geo: Augmenting BI with Geospatial Intelligence

Geospatial analytics can boost operational efficiencies, open up new revenue opportunities, improve marketing campaigns, and help with fraud and abuse detection.