Major shifts converging in today's BI environment bring the opportunity to discover new answers to old questions about what BI architectures are about and how they are designed.
Estimating can be a chore -- and produce inaccurate results. Ralph Hughes introduces us to a new approach to the practice: agile estimating.
Researcher, lecturer, and graphical presentation specialist Jonathan Koomey discusses how to improve visual presentations with a few simple rules.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- August 21, 2012
Although storage prices are dropping, you must still consider how your customized data set will work for self-service or ad hoc reporting, especially in a real-time environment.
As growth of cloud-based applications outpaces growth of on-premise apps, enterprises must address how best to integrate data between the cloud and on-premise storage.
Organizations must discover why and where their systems are inflexible and how they can apply new methods and technologies to increase agility. These three tips can help you get off on the right foot.
- By David Stodder
- August 14, 2012
What's the killer app for business intelligence? Two years after the debut of the iPad, we still don't know, though there are lots of opinions.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 14, 2012
Just what is Predictive Model Markup Language, and how can it help BI professionals?