News, Analysis and Opinion for Data warehouse software - Page 9

September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

Business intelligence and data warehouse trends: Appliances and "third-generation" BI (Part 1)

There are many new business intelligence and data warehouse software technology trends. Expert Mark Whitehorn examines data warehouse appliances and third-generation BI.

August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07

The exploration warehouse

The exploration warehouse is a physically separate data warehouse designed to provide a place for statisticians to do processing as frequently as desired, without impacting the regular users of the data warehouse.

June 19, 2007 19 Jun'07

Phased Delivery for Business Intelligence Success

To achieve business intelligence success, begin with a modest and achievable start, envision enterprise capabilities and functionality, and evolve over time by delivering capabilities through multiple phases.

April 24, 2007 24 Apr'07

HP gets into business intelligence with Neoview data warehouse

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has officially entered the business intelligence market. Today marked the official launch of the HP Neoview data warehouse platform, an integrated hardware, software and services platform.

April 03, 2007 03 Apr'07

Building a Customer-Centric Data Warehouse

A major focus for retailers is getting a better understanding of the behavior of their customers. Learn how to build a customer-centric data warehouse from key analytic and data subject areas.

February 07, 2007 07 Feb'07

Data warehouse for AOL Germany built on SAND

AOL Germany used to describe a customer with 15 attributes. Now it stores and analyzes 700+, thanks to a data warehouse with compression -- and marketing likes the results.

January 18, 2007 18 Jan'07

Building the imperfect data warehouse

Sometimes, a perfect data warehouse is not an option.

October 26, 2006 26 Oct'06

The Nature of Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data, Part 1

The purpose of this series is to present and discuss unstructured and semi-structured data as it relates to DW 2.0 - the architecture for the next generation of data warehousing.

October 03, 2006 03 Oct'06

Lessons in Data Warehousing from Walt Disney and His Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney and his Magic Kingdom can serve as sources of inspiration for data warehousing adventures. The two have more in common than you might think.

September 28, 2006 28 Sep'06

Business metadata commentary and opinions

This feature is a "Letter to Bill" that Bill Inmon recently received from Jerry Rosenbaum, a consultant with more than 40 years of IT experience. Jerry agrees with Bill's business metadata article, but asserts that there are additional talking ...

September 28, 2006 28 Sep'06

The life cycle of data

A review of the predictable journey of data can assist in technology selection.

September 26, 2006 26 Sep'06

Metadata-Driven Enterprise Data Management – Future or Fantasy?

A metadata-driven methodology for EDM allows all components to share information about the data as it moves through its life cycle, thereby enabling consistency, accountability and true control of data assets.

September 25, 2006 25 Sep'06

Gartner ranks data warehouse software, DBMS market leaders

Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for data warehouse software and DBMS systems finds that mixed workloads, new appliances and pricing pressures are all affecting the market.

July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06

Do Your Rollups Really Roll Up?

The success of the data warehouse - and sometimes the business itself - depends upon the appropriate defining of KPIs and key business concepts.

July 20, 2006 20 Jul'06

Minding the data and databases

The role of the database administrator can be broad or delineated by specialization. DBAs are constantly at the mercy of the project size, scope and application complexity.