12 articles in this selection
| 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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| 2009/12/16 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year 2009
With all the new projects this year, it was hard to filter down to the best, but here they are: two honorable mentions and the five best data visualization projects of 2009. Visualizations were chosen based on analysis, aesthetics, and most importantly, how well they told their story (or how well they let you tell yours)....
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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 SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half 2009 Results
WALLDORF - July 29, 2009 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its preliminary financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2009. SAP's revenues are down 10%, yet the company manages to increase operational result by 9% due to stringent cost cutting....
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| 2009/07/12 Google's Microsoft Moment
I'm not sure Google's new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but it's a useful milestone in marking Google's evolution towards becoming an older company with a distinctly different culture than they used to have. This is, for lack of a better term, Google's 'Microsoft Moment'. This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from reality. At this inflection point, the reasons for doing new things at Google start to change....
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| 2009/06/25 DataFlux Still Leads in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools 2009
Gartner are releasing a Magic Quadrant for Data Quality every year now, there have been quadrants in 2007, 2008 and now the new one in 2009. Usually when the quadrants are freely available in the public domain I mash the previous quadrant with the current one to show vendor movements. Last time I wrote DataFlux Takes the Lead in Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools 2008. This time I am going to skip 2008 and show the movement of vendors from 2007 to 2009 to get bigger trends....
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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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