A blog post from David Linthicum talking about the differences between combined and abstracted data warehouse approaches.
From the category archives:
Data Warehouse
After close to 12 years helping organizations’ of all shapes and sizes develop and implement a data warehouse, I have found one issue or flaw that keeps the project from getting full organizational buy-in: inadequate end user(s) or functional user(s) input during the planning and development stages of the project.
MicroStrategy sent out the following take on the SAP Acquisition of Business Objects today: SAP recently announced its plans to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 Billion.
From Business Objects press release on October 7, 2007: Press Release SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover October 7, 2007 WALLDORF, Germany & PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) and Business Objects S.A.
I read a really excellent article today entitled, Why Bother With Affordable Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence?
When data is integrated and aggregated, there are additional privacy and security concerns that do not exist for a typical transactional system.
The July issue of DMReview has a great article by Brian Swarbrick, Building a Quality BI Framework Solution Starts with a Quality. Brian writes that there is no shortcut to building a quality business intelligence framework. In fact, as the solutions go across the enterprise, picking the best features and capabilities from multiple solutions, quality becomes harder. It needs to be spread across the entire architecture.
