Business-critical data resides in more than one domain, which is why enterprises must manage master data across domains with great care.
- By Marty Moseley
- September 23, 2009
Business intelligence delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS) seems to be on the cusp of a wave of popularity, but it also brings some risks, as the recent demise of SaaS BI company LucidEra indicates. What's the future of SaaS BI and data warehousing in the cloud, and how can companies mitigate the risk?
- By Linda L. Briggs
- September 23, 2009
Oracle claims that the latest version of Exadata can beat all competitors, including specialty solutions.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 23, 2009
Companies that improve database infrastructures by moving from a row-based to a column-based architecture can expect immediate improvements in query responses and report generation speed.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- September 16, 2009
About one-quarter of shops use open source BI tools; even more are evaluating them.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 16, 2009
Even the fastest bandwidth may not be able to keep up with data intensity of BI applications, so what must change?
How data visualization techniques can encapsulate vast amounts of data into intensely visual and data-rich displays.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- September 9, 2009
Kalido's new KONA appliance could well be the first of its kind
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 9, 2009