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The Most Important Thing I Learned About Consulting Is to Watch Ghostbusters
05.22.2008
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Neil Raden
Ghostbusters is perhaps the single best training film for consultants I've come across. In simple words, they embody all the right stuff for a successful consultant which is, lets face it, a real craft, not just something to do between jobs. With motivational thoughts about teamwork, confidence, authenticity, client management and the projection of competence, these guys have it knocked...

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Doug Henschen
Link: Microsoft Excel as 3D Gaming Engine!
05.21.2008
Hey all you spreadsheet jockeys; want to do something creative (if a little crazy) in Excel? Today I was trolling Omniture (our Web analytics suite) and I noticed an article on a sister site (Gamasutra) that is hugely popular. It's a primer on creating 3D games in Excel, and it includes demo programs and videos of games created with the Excel 3D engine.

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Are Web Analytics Tools Past Their Prime?
05.21.2008
blog author
Phil Kemelor
Omniture's product strategy is focused on providing options and services on integrating Web data to both marketing and offline data — the logical next step for Web analytics. Yet, how much of the potential marketplace for analytics is actually going down the integration path?

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Cindi Howson
Cognos Gets 'Flashier'
05.19.2008
Close to 4,000 customers and partners convened in Las Vegas last week for the annual Cognos Forum, making it Cognos' largest conference ever. While some time was given to synergies with IBM's product line, more air time was devoted to what's new in Cognos 8.3... A future interactive viewer capability was the flashiest — literally, as it leverages Adobe Flash to provide an appealing interface.

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Q&A; With Gartner's Don Feinberg on Database as a Service and Cloud DBs
May 23, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sun are now fueling the growing fire around the database-as-a-service and cloud database markets, but what's the difference between these offerings and what's the appeal? Database guru Don Feinberg defines terms and raises important questions about reliability and security.

Your Next Data Warehouse? Size Up Column-Store Databases and Appliances
May 22, 2008
by Doug Henschen
These approaches may beat out conventional databases in price and performance. Here's how to find products that fit with your company's data analysis needs.

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ParAccel Unveils Pilot Program For Analytic Appliance
the new analytic appliance is built on EMC CLARiion midrange CX-3 UltraScale networked storage and ParAccel's analytic columnar database.

Yahoo Claims Record With Petabyte Database
Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database in a production environment and that it will grow larger.

Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.

Sybase Unveils Analytic Appliance
The new product combines the Sybase IQ database with IBM's System P hardware and MicroStrategy business intelligence software.

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