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Feed Me, Feed Me – Event Driven Analytics

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | May 17, 2008 | Blog

The explosion of web feeds on the internet and now also within the enterprise rightly warrants the question “Is it possible to analyse feed data in real time?”. The answer has got to be a resounding yes and opens up new ways to use BI that go beyond traditional BI systems. Analysing feed data in […]

Virtualised BI – A Thing of The Future?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | May 15, 2008 | Blog

The onslaught of virtualisation seems to be gaining momentum with vendors offering virtualisation of servers, PCs, applications and also the systems management tools to manage virtual server farms in a virtual data centre underpinned by grid computing. So the question is how does this apply to BI? BI tools are just effectively applications after all […]

BI Vendor adoption of Web 2.0 Emerging

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | April 9, 2008 | Blog

Following my recent series of articles on Web 2.0 and BI on the B-Eye-Network, it is exciting to see BI products pushing their way into the BI market embracing web 2.0. Several vendors such as Information Builders and SAP (Business Objects) have released BI Mashup tools recently but the one vendor that caught my eye […]

Younger Generation Vendors Rock The BI Boat

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | March 25, 2008 | Blog

In 2008, some 18 years since I moved into the BI sector of the industry, you would think that this space would be exhausted. Yet here we are seeing more announcements from relatively ‘new generation’ vendors aggressively going after this market. I refer of course to the announcement yesterday between LogiXML and Vertica on integration […]

Dashboards and Excel Data – Business Value or Lipstick on Untrusted Data?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | March 22, 2008 | Blog

Over the last year or so I have noticed a real surge in companies using or evaluating products to rapidly develop dashboards. In my consulting activities in this area, I have been amazed at the reliance on one particular primary source of data that users have latched onto in dashboard development. This is of course […]

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