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Unstructured Analytics – A Major New BI Market Emerges

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | November 15, 2006 | Blog

With more and more unstructured information not only on the public internet but also in the enterprise the need to manage this information and extract knowledge from it is increasingly in demand in commercial enterprises. There are lots of reasons why this is of interest including improving customer satisfaction by identifying customer concerns from customer […]

Really Simple BI or Even ATOMised BI

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | November 14, 2006 | Blog

Anyone browsing the web today would have to be blind to not notice the explosion of Web 2.0 technologies and in particular the rapid uptake of RSS (Rich Site Summary or now popularly known as Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM feeds that are springing up everywhere. RSS and ATOM keep us informed of any changes […]

IBM announces Information Server

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | October 16, 2006 | Blog

As I attend the massive IBM Information on Demand conference here in Los Angeles, IBM today announced their new IBM Information Server http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/integration/info_server/architecture.html which combines data replication, data discovery, data federation, data integration, data quality, metadata management and more. This is a very powerful product with an ability to support ETL for data warehousing systems, […]

Call In The Metrics Police!

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | October 10, 2006 | Blog

Over that last decade or more I have reviewed many different BI Systems for clients. During that time and still today, one thing has continually cropped up time and again irrespective of vertical industry is the problem of inconsistent metrics. You see it in different data marts, different BI tools and of course across spreadsheets […]

MDM Implementers — Don’t Miss the Portal Opportunity

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | October 4, 2006 | Blog

In my blog on MDM Straightforward Implementation or Iceberg Project, I highlighted the difference between master data integration and enterprise master data management (MDM). A key difference between the two is that enterprise MDM involves the MDM system being the single system of entry (SOE) as well as a system of record (SOR) while master […]

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