Date archive for May, 2009
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Build vs Buy the Allure of Out of the box business intelligence
The big software vendors claim they can sell you an “out of the box” data warehouse including reporting that installs onto your Oracle, Microsoft or SAP ERP package. Are these things really that easy? Is it actually cheaper to build it yourself? How do you determine if a given product is a good fit for […]
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Data.gov: Looking at the US governments data
The Obama administration has taken another step in making government data available online in launching the Data.gov website. Whats on the site right now, and what can we do with it? The website has two catalogs of information available- the “raw data catalog”, and the “tools” catalog. At the time of posting this, there are […]
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Business Intelligence adoption low and falling
It seems that the level of adoption of business intelligence tools as a percentage of users is much lower than typically thought. The data warehouse institute (TDWI) published a commentary on the latest business intelligence survey. This survey, published by the business application research center, reports that although your BI vendor might be telling you […]
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Pragmatic Business Intelligence
I’m a regular reader of datadoodle, and there have been a couple of great posts recently talking about what I think of as “Pragmatic BI”. The first one talks to the question of what the perfect BI tool is– answer? One that people actually use. The second uses a story to illustrate that many uses […]
