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Designing the Ultimate Business Intelligence Tool

November 28, 2011 by Erin Polka
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"When you consider that every company out there has their own special flavor of API, the dream of “an effective BI tool (that) allows for seamless integration of data” simply goes up in smoke. Every time a provider comes along, you will either need to adapt your BI tool to accept their data, or ask them to conform to your standard. The former is far more likely than the latter, but doing the former requires programmers and programmers cost money." [read more]

Fewer BI Tools in Your Future

April 28, 2010 by Doug Lautzenheiser
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According to a July 2009 survey conducted by InformationWeek Analytics and Intelligent Enterprise, organizations are continuing to reduce the number of BI tools and many are moving to a single standard. When the survey was done in 2007, a third of the business technology professionals said that their company had standardized on one... [read more]

ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs

November 17, 2009 by Rick Sherman
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I’m not only concerned about hand-coding versus ETL tools; I’m also concerned that potential buyers of ETL tools and the market in general are only looking at a small number of players in the ETL marketplace.For many years industry analyst research groups have identified the top two product vendors: Informatica and IBM (from its... [read more]