34 articles in this selection
| 2010/01/08 BI Jobs of Today... and Tomorrow
It is no secret that many business intelligence jobs are getting outsourced to low-cost centers around the world. In general, these are programming tasks that don’t require direct interaction with customers: ETL programming, testing, and some report development. As offshoring increases, we have to ask, "What are the BI jobs of the future and who will fill them?"...
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| 2009/12/16 BI: The Year in Review: TDWI
It wasn't exactly the best of years, but - all things considered - it was a far cry from the worst. Theres a sense, in fact, in which the tumult of 2009 seemed tailor-made to test the very value BI claims to bring to the table.
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| 2009/11/03 IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk
In the land of IT, the one thing you can count on is a slick vendor presentation and a whole lot of hype. Eras shift, technologies change, but the sales pitch always sounds eerily familiar. In virtually every decade there's at least one transformational technology that promises to revolutionize the enterprise, slash operational costs, reduce capital expenditures, align your IT initiatives with your core business practices, boost employee productivity, and leave your breath clean and minty fresh....
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| 2009/08/18 Google Insights for Search
With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.
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| 2009/08/17 The Future Of Work - It's Data, Baby
Consider this: IBM is preparing to expand its data analysis employee base from 200 to 4,000 - a staggering twenty-fold increase. You can be certain that a significant portion of this new work force will be untethered, distributed widely across the globe, implying that one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be analysis. So, if you're looking to sharpen up your data analysis skills, where do you start?...
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| 2009/08/03 Columnar databases, appliances, cloud computing top BI trends
This is the first of a two-part series that will examine trends and market drivers in data warehousing and business intelligence for the second half of 2009 and, just as important, what IT directors, managers and executives should do about them.
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| 2009/07/29 Business intelligence: where is BI heading?
Despite all the money invested in IT systems over the years, a study by IBM reveals that two-thirds of UK mid-market businesses still rely on error-prone manual processes when it comes to dealing with data, the lifeblood of any effective 21st century business. It is a problem that business intelligence (BI) tools were supposed to have solved....
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| 2009/07/22 Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years. So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we've never thought before? Let's take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools....
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| 2009/07/16 Interest in Lucene continues to accelerate
A while back, I wrote about our decision to expand our coverage of Apache Lucene for the Search and Information Access Report, based on what seemed like an accelerating rate of adoption of Lucene and related technologies. That trend appears to be continuing unabated....
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| 2009/07/03 No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. The inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community crammed 150 attendees into a meeting room at CBS Interactive....
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| 2009/06/24 10 Red Hot BI Trends
As I look into the analytics crystal technology ball for 2009 and beyond, BI continues to make businesses smarter, especially during these difficult economic times. IT and finance departments will continue to partner with the business on analytics initiatives to address the growing demand for more personalized, relevant information and streamlined decision-making. Through BI, they can capitalize on current and growing industry trends like green computing, social networking, data visualization, mobile, predictive analytics, composite applications, cloud computing and multitouch. Users can glean business insights that enable their organizations to leverage collective intelligence for sustainable competitive advantage for many years to come. Let’s examine a few of these current trends and their relationship to BI and organizational decision-making to improve business performance....
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| 2009/06/19 Perspectives on Text Analytics in 2009
You're reading this article because you're actively interested in text analytics technology and market trends. Whether you're a solutions provider or consumer, you want to be sure you've invested your time and financial resources wisely.
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| 2009/06/16 As Big BI Gets Hip, QlikTech Targets Larger Deployments
Hoping to land bigger deals and ever-larger customers, QlikTech this week released QlikView 9.0, an upgrade of its in-memory BI platform laced with new features aimed at enterprise-grade deployments. Those features start with a battery of enterprise manageability improvements, including a visual administrative control panel that provides one view of all deployed QlikView servers. The vendor has bolstered load balancing and handling of large, complex and concurrent queries. Also new is a PDF Report Generation and Distribution feature that fills the production reporting role -- long a bread-and-butter staple for the larger BI suites. These gaps had to be filled for QlikTech to win bigger deals, yet QlikView still doesn't the fit the mold of its larger competitors....
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| 2009/04/30 BI Nirvana
I had an amazing client experience the other day. I searched long and hard for a client with flawless, perfect, 100% efficient and effective BI environment and applications. My criteria were tough and that’s why it took me so long (I’ve been searching for as long as I’ve been in the BI business, almost 30 years). These applications had to be plug&play, involve little or no manual setup, be 100% automated, incorporate all relevant data and content, and allow all end users to self service every single BI requirement. Imagine my utter and absolute amazement when I finally stumbled on one....
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| 2008/09/19 BPMS Watch: The Next Innovation in BPMS
As BPM evolves in most organizations from isolated projects to enterprise-scale programs, the need for such a business-oriented repository is now becoming apparent to BPMS vendors, and I think in 2009 it will become a key differentiator in the BPMS competitive landscape....
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| 2008/04/19 Open source BI stands to gain ground in a tight economy
An economic downturn, in fact, may actually prove to be a boon for open source BI vendors. CIOs regularly highlight BI as a top priority, but with fewer resources, buying expensive software from commercial vendors like Business Objects and Cognos is diffi...
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| 2008/03/06 IT|Redux - BPM 2.0
The good news: there is, I call it BPM 2.0—a term originally coined by my good friend Bruce Silver, and it’s available now. The bad news: the definition I give for BPM 2.0 is a radical one, it leaves no place to hide, and most vendors won’t like it....
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| 2008/02/28 Forrester: Why BI, BPM and Rules Technologies Will Converge
I'm attended a panel discussion here at the Forrester Technology Leadership Forum on the convergence of the three Bs - business intelligence, business process management and business rules - featuring Mike Gilpin (EA and application development), Bori
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| 2008/02/04 Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers
Cutting-edge careers are often exciting, and they offer a strong job market. Alas, the cutting edge too often turns out to be the bleeding edge, so here are some careers that, while relatively new, are already viable and promise further growth. They emerg...
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| 2008/01/07 De 7 IT-trends van 2008
Na de grote 'disruptive' schokken van de voorbije paar jaar gaat de bedrijfswereld met zekere tred en zelfs in looppas mee met een aantal nieuwe evoluties. Het wordt een boeiend IT-jaar, zo schrijft IDC.
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