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Business Intelligence Journal | Vol. 14, No. 4

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Dec 07, 2009

 For years, business users felt that IT held them hostage. Projects seemed to take forever, weren't exactly what users wanted when they were installed, and the queue of BI projects just seemed to grow and grow ... and grow. In this issue we examine several technologies that have helped change all that.top

Searching for Effective Enterprise Information Management

Posted in: Master Data Management - Dec 02, 2009

The goal of EIM is to help locate and transform an organization’s data into meaningful information while managing its distribution so everyone can perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively. The key to success: search capabilities.top

Question and Answer: Cloud Computing’s Pros, Cons, and Potential

Posted in: Master Data Management - Dec 02, 2009

Consultant and TDWI instructor Steve Dine talks with BI This Week about some of the ins and outs of cloud computing for business intelligence.top

Why Oracle’s Exadata May Attract Chief X Officers

Posted in: Master Data Management - Dec 02, 2009

Exadata V2 seems tailor-made for big Oracle shops and C-level executives.top

Consolidating Mixed Workloads for Transaction Processing and Data Warehousing: Where, When, and Why Workload Consolidation Makes Sense

Posted in: Master Data Management - Nov 20, 2009

Putting data into a database and getting it back out are surprisingly different operations, despite the fact that both rely heavily on the capabilities of a vendor’s database management system (DBMS). Because these are two distinct “database workloads,” the common approach for many years has been to provide separate DBMS instances and server/storage hardware for application databases and data warehousing, each instance modeled and optimized for its primary workload. Yet, there are good reasons why some user organizations should consider consolidating the two database workloads onto a single database platform.top