Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
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Data Warehousing with Oracle Database 11g
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Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g
Based on over a decade of successful customer data warehouse implementations, this white paper provides a set of best practices and "how-to" examples for deploying a data warehouse.
Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
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Blogs
The Need for BI Speed
There are a lot of data warehouses out there that can no longer keep up with the pace of the business. Most data warehouses were built on the assumption that performance would hardly be an issue. The business side wasn’t expected to stress the platform by making too many queries, and just about...More >
How Data Integration and Quality Can Undermine BI Success
It's pretty basic to say that you can't expect success with business intelligence and other data-based initiatives without a focus on data quality. That's a given. But recently, it seems I'm seeing more focus on the role data integration plays in creating quality data, and therefore, in supporting...More >
Can Warehouse Appliances Really Get the Job Done?
It seems almost a contradiction in terms. How could something as complex as data warehousing lend itself to the plug-and-play architecture of an appliance? As I and many others have commented before, warehousing is more than just simple data storage. Heck, we have simple storage for that....More >
Articles & Interviews
BI for Intelligent Business
The value of making an informed decision is the paradigm of Business Intelligence (BI). In my experience, SAP implementations tend to focus on making business processes efficient, but seem to lose sight on measuring corporate performance effectiveness. In the current economic downturn, the business... More >
Who Is Using Open Source Business Intelligence, and Why
Ann All spoke with Mark Madsen, founder and president of Third Nature , a research and consulting company specializing in business intelligence and information delivery and the technology infrastructure required to support them. He authored a recent study of open source adoption in the business... More >
The Problem with XML
Loraine Lawson spoke with Cliff Longman of Kalido . Lawson : You responded to a post about Jeff Pollock's ebizQ article criticizing the pervasive use of XML for all manner of data integration. Is XML doing any of this? Longman : Well, actually the thing we share in common is that XML... More >
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Using the Data Warehouse in Real Time
A piece by Teradata India's Ashok Ekbote on PCQuest discusses the emerging field of pervasive business intelligence, a kind of real-time merging of BI and knowledge management. In effect, it makes information from the company's data warehouse available for strategic decision-making by everyone in the company in real... More >
Putting 'Intelligence' Back in Health Care BI
While are getting so much attention lately, Greg Nelson, CEO of business intelligence services company ThotWave Technologies argues in a piece on B Eye Network , that there needs to be more "intelligence" in the way data is used. Talking about including input from traditional sources, such as databases and... More >
Look Beyond the Big Vendors
In sizing up the IT market for data warehousing or business intelligence, Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves get pretty boring because they cite the same companies year after year, writes Rick Sherman on Seeking Alpha . While these are good companies, Sherman urges looking beyond them, just to see... More >
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