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 [...]
I remember when I started my career in tech, many of my customers were moving away from mainframes to distributed computing for those applications that required more human involvement. As a percentage, traditional mainframe programs shrunk and the skills necessary to maintain them became scarce. I vividly recall a conversation with my customer at the [...]
Today at the Teradata PARTNERS Conference in San Diego we announced a major new release of the Kalido Information Engine. Version 9 further extends our business-model-driven automation to cover more data integration tasks than ever before. We believe the impact of this is the need for separate, purpose-built ETL tools for data warehousing is quickly [...]
