Repurposing Your Data Warehouse Platform—Not!
I’ve noticed lately that data warehouse vendors are dusting off the arguments and pitches of days gone by. Don’t buy…
The Federal Government and Analytics
I have recently read the latest Australian Federal Government's report on innovation. The report is called 'Powering Ideas: An Innovation…
Robert McNamara: good analytics, bad judgment
Tom Davenport on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and how he failed despite good analytics.McNamara was a hedgehog rather…
A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big…
Financial Services Analysis For Free
If you work at a Financial Services organization there is a great new source of free information. Chris Pratt, formerly…
The End of Relational Databases?
Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-founder, chairman, and “Chief Software Advisor” has been giving a series of talks including his keynote at…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Data Warehousing
Image via WikipediaBI/Data Warehousing is an easier market to enter for new database platform vendors. This is for a few…
Business Rules are a failed abstraction – so what?
Syndicated from ebizQJeff Attwood had a great post over on Coding Horror – All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions in which…
Moving BI Into The Cloud Part 1
Over the last year I have been reading a lot about cloud computing and trying to predict how this can…
An in-depth interview with the author – by Ajay Ohri at DecisionStats.com
I have been following DecisionStat’s excellent series of interviews with leading figures in the IT industry who have a focus…
