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11.20.2008
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11.18.2008 The best way to look at cloud computing is to learn how to classify the clouds. Right now I see at least five classifications: storage-as-a-service, database-as-a-service, applications-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, integration-as-a-service, and security-as-a-service. Each category has its own path to maturation, with applications-as-a-service (or SaaS), leading the way. The next push will be... Read more from David Linthicum >> 'Soul of the Web' At Stake 11.17.2008
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11.17.2008 Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools. Read more from Seth Grimes >> Hot Topics in High-Performance Analytics 11.17.2008
For the past few months, I've collected a lot of data points to the effect that high-performance analytics — i.e., beyond straightforward query — is becoming increasingly important. And I've written about some of these topics, including MapReduce, geospatial analytic capabilities and memory-centric analytics among a few others... Read more from Curt Monash >>
11.14.2008 I spent a worthwhile day last week at Clarabridge's inaugural user conference. The company is a leading text analytics vendor, and the opportunity to catch up with staff and users and (it turned out) prospects and partners was too good to pass up. Clarabridge is different from many other text analytics vendors in its singular focus on customer-experience management (CEM). The approach seems to work. Read more from Seth Grimes >>
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Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
 With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.
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Related Stories: • Infobright, Kickfire, MySQL 5.1, and the MySQL Platform • Infobright Open Source Move Packs Potential • Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source • Open Source Data Integrator Talend Adds SAP Data DASHBOARD NEWS & INSIGHT
Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing in four months or less. Making the Business Case for Mashups Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream. Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax. JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support. Appian Readies Upgrades Of BPM Suite The latest version of Appian Enterprise 5.7 introduces features that make the product easier to use, such as expanded support for custom data types and Web services. Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy. IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out. Actuate Intensifies Focus On Open Source The next release of Actuate's business intelligence software includes more support for its Eclipse Foundation project started four years ago.
SPOTLIGHT Mashup Camp 6, Mountain View, CA  Nearly 300 attended Mashup Camp 6, November 17-19 in Mountain View, CA, where "campers" soaked in tips, techniques, case examples and deep thinking about what is fast becoming a mainstream approach to Web development.
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BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future Hans Peter Luhn envisioned a "business intelligence system" way back in 1958, but only recently has BI begun to serve up knowledge instead of numbers. Kimball University: Maintaining Dimension Hierarchies Dimension hierarchies and pre-computed aggregations can make or break your data warehouse. Here's how to design, load and maintain true hierarchies while working around bad data sources and optimizing for usability and performance. Five Steps to Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance The pressure is on business intelligence and data warehousing professionals to handle ever-higher data volumes and ever-more-complex queries while reducing decision latency. Follow this five-step approach to identify key business drivers, optimize system performance, guide new technology deployments, improve responsiveness, and invest for future performance demands. SaaS Integration: Real-World Problems, And How CIOs Are Solving Them Installing SaaS applications is easy. It's integrating them that can drive up the cost and complexity SaaS is supposed to avoid. SaaS Integration Specialists Find Their Niches From appliances to integration wizards, they're providing plenty of choices. Scaling The Data Warehouse Data warehouses aren't just exploding in size, they're also supporting more users and increasingly complex queries, all in shorter time frames. Here's how to make sure yours is ready to scale. 7 Gotchas That Wreck Data Warehouse Scalability Warnings from data warehouse consultant Richard Winter. |
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