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“Something is not Right!” – Don’t Ignore Your Gut When Analyzing Information

April 9, 2012 by Mike Urbonas
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What the classic children's book "Madeline" has to do with analyzing, and questioning, information - and how to avoid a corporate culture that over-emphasizes hard data to the point of employees feeling compelled to ignore their 'gut', their intuition, that something is not right. [read more]

Gathering Information on a Global Scale

January 5, 2012 by Gina Cerami
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While most internal market intelligence operations monitor a limited set of companies or individuals that are of interest to their organization, FactSet must monitor every source, including web sites, traditional media, government and registries, for every company. [read more]

Tips for Developing a BI Roadmap

November 18, 2011 by Smart Analytics
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"Every BI Manager must know that the 3 key expectations that any business group has from their BI infrastructure are data availability, data reliability and data completeness. Even if one of these is not fulfilled, the business will not be able to make the right decisions." [read more]

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Why Capacity Management Matters For Countries…and Data Warehouses

November 15, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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Big data trends are obvious; especially where firms like IDC anticipate by 2020, the amount of data generated each year will reach 35 zetabytes. Linear planning strategies in this instance aren’t going to help your company survive this data onslaught. [read more]

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Predictive Analytics World New York City Conference Announces Speaker Line-Up

May 24, 2011 by Bobbe Cook
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Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the October 17-21, 2011 conference in New York City, New York [read more]

Digital data explosion highlights need for new-age Database and Business Intelligence technologies

April 13, 2011 by Lachlan James
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The demand for new-generation business analytics solutions – comprising agile BI and analytical database technology that have the capacity to quickly, effectively and cost-efficiently produce actionable intelligence from ‘big data’ – is set to skyrocket. [read more]

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Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile

March 6, 2011 by Benjamin Harden
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There is a lot of buzz lately around Agile BI and Agile data warehousing. Typical questions asked include - Does it produce better results? Is it faster? How much does it cost? And of course, most importantly, is the Agile methodology a fit for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects? [read more]

Reinventing the BI Solution You Already Have - A Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Events #1

June 16, 2010 by Rick Sherman
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(This is part of our ongoing Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Events. Click for the complete series, so far.) A fundamental flaw of many business intelligence solutions is recreating what the company is already using for reporting and analysis. This takes one of two paths: 1)    The data... [read more]

Why don’t they [IT] ever learn?

April 15, 2010 by Teradata AusNZ
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I was chatting with friends last weekend about work and the conversation led to discussing how hard IT seem to make things for users "STILL".  As an ex-CIO who started out as an analyst/programmer in the mainframe days – I appreciate the need for controls (security, data quality etc) but we have come such a long way; from the white... [read more]

Persuasion in simple terms

April 6, 2010 by Teradata EMEA
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Partly to give the Berlin conference with its very informative sessions and presentations a lighter note, partly because we are curious about how he makes us think out-of-the-box, we have invited Geoff Burch to address the conference. Burch is probably the most unconventional business guru, masterfully oscillating between stand-up... [read more]

Staring at the Lights: Your Data Warehouse Isn’t a Commodity

March 16, 2010 by Evan Levy
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There are far too many data warehouse development teams solely focused on loading data. They’ve completely lost sight of their success metrics. Why have they fallen into this rut?  Because they’re doing what they’ve always done. One of the challenges in data warehousing is that as time progresses the people on the data... [read more]

The influence of open source on general BI

March 8, 2010 by Lyndsay Wise
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Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business intelligence implementations. Over the past couple of years, however, open source BI, data warehousing, and data integration solutions have become more mainstream within the BI market creating a... [read more]

Advancing Corporate Uses of the Internet and Social Networking to Drive Business & Profits

March 4, 2010 by Ron Swift
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It’s about 65 years since World War II ended and that means major transitions - for many reasons.  First, there are a massive number of ‘baby boomers’ who are becoming of age to receive health benefits (mostly through US’s Medicare), and secondly, there will be multiple European Countries that will default on loans, economic debt,... [read more]

InformationWeek’s “10 Most Strategic IT Vendors” Includes Teradata

March 1, 2010 by Darryl McDonald
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I am a big sports fan, and have watched the Vancouver Olympics Games every chance I get. It energizes me to see the amazing athletes and their families get recognition for their years of practice and dedication.   Now, while no one will confuse me with an Olympic athlete, Teradata can indeed claim some similarities, as we... [read more]

Defining Analytics: Data Warehousing

February 10, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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 Following-up to my blog 'Just Tell Me What I'm Doing', this is the second in a series of posts that define the key concepts and terms that make up my analytic world. Everything I do is coloured by my experience actually doing analytics in commercial organisations. So while I believe these posts will present practical definitions... [read more]

When does a hard science become a team sport?

February 8, 2010 by Darryl McDonald
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The newest report from analyst firm Gartner just came out – and we’re all excited! It’s called the “Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.” Gartner issues it about once a year, and it positions database vendors based on vision and execution. I am pleased to share that Teradata is in the top spot of the Leaders’... [read more]