Archive for the ‘Data Warehouse’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
The truth is, Data Integrity is essential to even the most rudimentary Information Visualizations.
No visualization is worth a thing if it leads you to the wrong conclusion.
Buzz words are carelessly tossed around in the attempt to impress (by subtle confusion) the intended audience.
buzz.word n. -- A usually important-sounding word ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
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. As a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) software, MicroStrategy has closely followed this announcement. We would like to share our perspectives on ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
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. (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB) today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
I read a really excellent article today entitled, Why Bother With Affordable Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence? As I was reading, I came across a line that hit a nerve with me:
One is not really sure how valuable the information is until one understands it - a sort of BI ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
When data is integrated and aggregated, there are additional privacy and security concerns that do not exist for a typical transactional system. When multiple slices of the same data are presented either through ad-hoc queries or formal reported results, mathematical models may sometimes be used to specifically identify an individual ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
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 ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Have you heard of BIRT?
The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) is part of the Eclipse open source development platform.
What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an extensible development platform, runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Do yourself a favor and take 19 minutes to watch the video attached to this post. It is interesting on a number of different levels.
The video comes from the TEDTalks website. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. They sponsor conferences where they bring multi-disciplinary speakers together ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Yesterday, I posted about free data warehouse training on Exforsys Inc. Among the other training courses they have are 17 on Data Mining. I've listed the topics below:
Data Mining - Stages of Data Mining
Data Mining - Data Mining Advantages
Data Mining - Data Mining Privacy Concerns
Data Mining - Information on ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
I came across a website, Exforsys Inc., that offers pretty good free online training for data warehousing. Below are links to the 35 training modules on Data Warehousing:
Data Warehousing Introduction
Data Warehouses At a Glance
Data Warehouse Overview
Data Warehouse Tools
Data Warehousing Methods
Data Warehouse Design Strategies
How To Assess Your Data Warehouse
How To ...
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