Data Warehouses (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) are two separate but closely linked technologies that are crucial to the success of any large or midsize business. Both can exist in isolation but […]
Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions. The report looks at nine players in the metadata product space, including leaders, visionaries, challengers, and niche players. Here’s a look at […]
We data folks live in exciting times. As we saw at the Strata + Hadoop show in San Jose, open source developers continue to deliver new ways to analyze high volumes of […]
What is Business Intelligence? While there is no universally accepted definition, Business Intelligence is often defined as the people, process and technology used to turn data into information so businesses can make […]
With an ever increasing volume of available information, how can one keep up and make use of it? Information simply has to be accessible – gathering, managing and utilizing information is an […]
This post is a hodgepodge list of what I think of as the IT fundamentals. These are activities tangential to our regular analytics, big data and data science work, but they build […]
When it comes to decision making in business, you need to rely on hard data, not assumptions. Business Intelligence describes the various IT solutions that businesses use to enable them to get […]
Leading digital photo retailer turns to trusted advisor Teradata as business adjusts to big data complexities Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, announced that Shutterfly, Inc., the leading manufacturer and […]
In this article that I wrote for SearchDataManagement.com, I discuss the fact that as relational database management systems handle more and more data, a strategic approach to data modeling has become vital. […]
Hadoop, the technology behind most of the big data hype, is driving change in many areas of business. The impact is only just starting to be felt by business intelligence and data […]
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