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News Highlights

  • Why Analytics Must Focus on Outliers and Idiosyncrasies

  • Mobile service providers struggle to match data usage to revenues. Existing BI tools only provide a general understanding of the data
    traffic but not the context to drive smarter marketing decisions. A new kind of BI -- providing insight into subscriber usage patterns -- may be the answer.
  • Agile data warehousing isn't exactly a straightforward proposition -- some techniques popular with agile programmers aren't suited to data managers. This isn't to downplay the benefits of an agile approach to data warehousing but rather to recast the issue. If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, one vendor argues, their information consumers will pass them by, and keeping users happy is the essence of agile.
  • In a 24/7 marketplace, you need reliable and timely information. We explain the data integration challenges and how to overcome them.
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  • Enhancing Enterprise Data Warehouse Reliability Using Master Data Management

    Inconsistent data within an enterprise data warehousing (EDW) environment reduces the effectiveness of a business intelligence (BI) capability. The EDW return on investment is eroded through a general lack of trust in its data, leading to delayed decisions, increased reconciliations, and costly errors.

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