Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

"While much has been talked and written about regarding the return on investment of business intelligence initiatives, little has been discussed concerning the barrier to entry that many small and medium-size businesses (SMB) face when staring straight in the eyes of a business problem that requires a BI solution." writes Joe Luedtke in this DMReview.com [...]

Once in a while, I read something about Oracle that stops me in my tracks and makes me really think about how I approach my job. Recent examples include starting to work with 9iAS, and slowly becoming aware of how much I’m going to have to get my head around the role Java and middleware [...]

“As data warehouse designers, you know how important a business executive sponsor is to your initiative. After focusing on data warehousing for the past two decades, I’m convinced that strong business sponsorship is the leading make-or-break indicator of data warehouse success. Having the so-called right sponsor can overcome a multitude of shortcomings, such as difficulties [...]

I recently came across a couple of articles on adtmag.com that are probably worth taking a look at. First up is an article by Jack Vaughan entitled "Dash on real-time, BI and the road ahead". Mainly an interview with Jnan Dash, ex-Oracle and IBM and now an advocate of the ‘real time enterprise’. According to [...]

There’s a good article at the DW Institute about the impact Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE) and the Java Tools Community will have on the custom BI applications market. According to the article; "The controversy generated by the so-called Java Tools Community (JTC) is having its impact on business intelligence. Some of the biggest movers [...]