Organizations are now evaluating Data warehouse appliances (DWA) to replace their traditional Data-warehousing (DWH) landscape. Besides market pressure, there are a number of reasons to migrate the existing data warehouse to a pre-packed appliances. Apart from the one “cost savings” there are many findings that data warehouse appliances can significantly reduce data warehouse total cost of ownership. Organization [...]
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Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View
With lots of hype in the Data Management world about Data Governance (DG) as a program – the most observed scenario is that DG programs failure even before they begin. There are many articles in many blogs articulating about DG program failure and I intended to write my experience in these lines. With the consulting [...]
In general Low Cost Business Intelligence (BI) gets associated with two terms Open Source BI and Small Medium Enterprise (SME).
Not just SME companies look for Low Cost BI Solution, even large Enterprises look at low cost BI solution for certain business functions. Also not always low cost BI solution need to be built using Open [...]
Data Quality Management (DQM) is one of the very important implementation components in an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) initiative. Following are few definitions to be noted in the context of a DQM process.
Exceptions – These are errors determined on the Data
Checks – These are rules that are applied over the data to capture the Exceptions
Data [...]
In the last few years starting with the Oracle acquisition of Hyperion in 2007 to the recent acquisition like Sybase by SAP, Netezza by IBM, many small and large acquisitions have happened in between. Market consolidation happening among the mega vendors Oracle, SAP and IBM, has led to major changes in the consumption of Business [...]
In addition to the existing Data Warehouse (DW) database, recently many organizations have started to look for an alternate DW database platform.
What is Data Warehouse Database Re-platforming? The process by which an existing DW database is being completely replaced or being complemented by a new database solution.
Many of the Business Intelligence systems that are being built by an organization are to be used by global users; these systems initially address a subset of the users and then gradually are extended for the global users.
Following are the critical things that are to be considered to ensure a successful global rollout of a [...]
Let me reiterate – Big Data is the ‘New Normal’ in Business Intelligence. Now, What is this Big Data?
Before that let me take a dig at this fashionable phrase called the ‘New Normal’ – Mr Mohammed El-Erian, CIO of Pimco, first introduced the phrase New Normal and it has since been used by many people [...]
