In my last post I poked a bit of fun at the Big Data marketing hype and this week I figured, why stop there? So today’s topic is the cloud – except this post is relevant to the cloud! For those of you who are reticent about trusting sensitive corporate data to the cloud, managing [...]
In his most recent blog, Ralph Hughes makes the point that business managers have grown accustomed to seeing data warehousing professionals “disappear after gathering requirements, only to return 10 or more months later with applications that don’t meet the needs or are out of date because the business has changed while we were off coding.” [...]
Every few years, a word or phrase becomes so commonly used in the language of business that it loses its effect. I remember when “strategic” meant something very specific about competitive advantage. “Quality” and “customer-centric” were rally points for corporate culture. “Innovation” (after a round of “ideation” of course) would almost guarantee a slice of [...]
Today we announced an update to Kalido Information Engine version 9. One of the awesome new features is its ability to exploit existing models, taxonomies and other related assets like business glossaries to accelerate delivering on a data mart migration and consolidation. We’re seeing more and more companies begin to tackle this problem – or [...]
I read a really good article in Information Management this week on BI entitled “The Other BI.” The idea in the article is that “business involvement” is the “other BI” that is critical to ensuring success of your business intelligence deployment based on a data warehouse. The recommendations in the article include: IT needs to [...]
