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Making Role-Based Business Intelligence Meaningful
Role-based BI is only effective if it delivers role-based information within the context of a value stream.
Murphy’s Laws of Data Warehousing: What Goes Bump in the Night?
Murphy’s Law tells us that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. This axiom applies to all aspects of life, including data warehousing.
Bringing ILM Inside the Box
This article provides a breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilization and performance numbers, in addition to costs, are revealed.
Using SOA to Close Communication Gaps
Whether your company is small and you must monitor all activities or it’s large and all the business processes are in lock step, you are still inevitably facing communication gaps that can impact your bottom line on a daily basis.SOA can help proactively address gaps so that time and resources don’t fall between the cracks.
Achieving Financial Reporting Transparency with XBRL
The use of XBRL provides organizations with an efficient and effective means to extract, analyze, share and report financial information.
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Time and Time Again
We are pleased to welcome Tom as our newest online columnist. This column is a continuation of his previous articles and will be featured the first and third week of each month. For a review of his previous articles, please visit MindfulData.com.
The Future of Retail
It was not so long ago that the phenomenon of Internet retailers was expected to wash away traditional retail outlets. Instead, most retailers survived the initial onslaught and became “bricks and clicks,” multichannel organizations.
Software Selection Mistakes
Selecting the right software cannot guarantee the success of a project, but picking the wrong system can ensure failure. This month’s column will focus on three common mistakes made in selecting software - overly detailed requirements, canned demonstrations and uninformed evaluations - and how to avoid them.
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Recently I was a guest speaker for a group in Montreal talking about how to develop a business intelligence (BI) center of excellence (CoE). During the presentation I had two different audience members ask variations of the same question. The essence of the question was this: How does a business unit sell the concepts of BI and the CoE to the IT group? In both instances, the business unit had built a local data warehouse with little or no IT help.
Dimensional Perspectives
Dimensional modeling is an old discipline, dating from the late 1970s when ACNielsen introduced its In*Fact syndicated data reporting service, organized around “dimensions and facts.” It is, therefore, surprising that some consultants and industry pundits consistently state myths and misrepresentations about dimensional modeling that have been debunked multiple times. It is time (once again) to address these myths.
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Extreme Transaction Processing: Technologies to Watch
Why Business Leaders Should Care About SOA?
By Equifax
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Seven Steps to Strategy Execution |
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RFID in the Supply ChainBy by Judith M. Myerson |
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Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing BusinessBy by Tom Hayes |
