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No Such Thing As A Stupid Question
What's that term they use to describe a question that's put forward clearly and simply? Oh yes, I just remembered: "in plain English." Wouldn't it be cool to make database queries in plain English? Well, it looks like you may be able to. Continue reading "No Such Thing As A Stupid Question"  Comments
So if you're a BI practitioner who doesn't trust open-source software applications for your intelligence work, here's something you should know: You're in the minority. Continue reading "The Open-Source Majority" Comments Little White Lies
Let's be honest. Customers who think carefully don't make sales guys' lives any easier. But customers who fail to think carefully don't make their own lives any easier. What's true in the used car trade happens to be true in the data warehouse trade as well. And that's what one of our stories this week is all about. Continue reading "Little White Lies" Comments Where's the CPM?
Quick on the heels of Cognos' new release of Cognos 8, some people -- or some Cognos competitors, anyway -- are asking: What happened to corporate performance management? Continue reading "Where's the CPM?" Comments Kicking Off The Simplification Race
If you're a business intelligence vendor that wants to take command of the midmarket, then you've got to be first to deliver a widely accepted BI platform that is, above all else, easy to use and deploy. The starting gun in that race fired this week. Cognos this week debuted an intelligence package that replaces five separate Cognos products with a single product built on a services-based architecture. The new release, Cognos 8, combines reporting software, analytics, an event manager, scorecard software and ETL software on one server. That's right: one server. Cognos wants to lure mid-size customers that like easy deployments almost as much as they like ease of use. Continue reading "Kicking Off The Simplification Race" Comments Useful Bells, Worthwhile Whistles
Texturally detailed, workstation-based graphics interfaces have been used for years by design engineers and scientists. But as Rick Whiting writes in one of our Editor's Picks this week, "...using computer graphics to model something tangible like airflow over an airplane wing is one thing. Adapting that technology to create interactive visual representations of less tangible data, such as terrorist activity or stock-trade patterns, has taken longer." Continue reading "Useful Bells, Worthwhile Whistles" Comments Waking Up To Threats
I've already written about how data security breaches threaten the future of customer intelligence. I was pleased to learn from our latest poll that I'm not alone in the sentiment. Continue reading "Waking Up To Threats" Comments Open Source Climbs The BI Stack
BI pros know open-source has made headway on the reporting side of business intelligence and among databases. But ambitious efforts are underway to bring more complete BI platforms that are built around open source. This week, we show you exactly how far those plans go. Pentaho and JasperSoft either already offer or plan to make available BI applications that go far beyond simple reporting, as our Business Intelligence Pipeline in-depth overview of the products explains. Continue reading "Open Source Climbs The BI Stack" Comments
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