December 2007
Now You See It . . . The Vanishing User Interface And The Ubiquity Of Information
The history of technology is the history of absorptions and extinctions. No matter what the technology or tool, its usefulness -- or lack thereof -- either leads the technology towards a kind of invisible…
Strategies for Business Intelligence on the Internet
Is your business intelligence environment ready for safe, reliable, scalable accessibility via the Internet? How are you addressing this challenge? Typically, business intelligence (BI) environments are initially constructed and deployed to internal clients across…
Data Governance Maturity - An Overview
Generally, governance is a long-term strategic initiative, but data governance can also deliver short-term, tactical benefits. The need for both strategic and tactical approaches to data governance contributes to an organization’s confusion on where…
Master Data Management: Much More Than Technology
Master data management (MDM) is currently being hyped as new technology, which will help organizations standardize their data about core business entities (e.g., customer, product, employee, and so on). Sounds good – but wait.…
Separate Data From Views
It seems like there are endless levels of planning and challenges that are encountered in data warehousing/business intelligence efforts. One specific challenge that has caused many a project to fall into an “analysis paralysis”…
Managing Meta Data for the Business: Reducing IT Redundancy, Part 2 of 5
In part one of this series I discussed the importance of managing data as a corporate asset and the vital role that meta data management plays. Over the next several months I will present…
Is Microsoft An Architecture?
The other day I was at a review of a company’s plan for DSS and analytical processing. I heard something that piqued my interest. When the question was asked – “what architecture do you…
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