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Microsoft Opens Up Collaborative and Self-Service BI
Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 21, 2010 | BlogJust over a week ago I was invited to attend an analyst briefing at the Microsoft BI conference in New Orleans that was running alongside the Microsoft TechEd conference. The conference itself was very well attended with several thousand delegates. Several things were on show at this event including SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, […]
Data Federation – Master Data Patterns – On-Demand Information Services Pattern
Posted by Mike Ferguson | December 18, 2009 | BlogPattern DescriptionThis pattern uses data virtualisation to provide on-demand integrated data to applications, reporting tools, processes and portals via a web services user interface. Structured and semi-structured data sources are supported including RDBMS, any web service (internal or external), web syndication feeds, flat files, XML, packaged applications and non-relational databases. Pattern Diagram Pattern Example Use […]
Data Federation – Master Data Patterns – The Virtual MDM Pattern
Posted by Mike Ferguson | December 11, 2009 | BlogFollowing on from my last blog on data federation, the next data federation pattern I would like to discuss is a Master Data Virtual MDM pattern. This is as follows: Pattern Description This pattern uses data virtualisation to provide one or more on-demand integrated views of master data entities such as customer, product, asset, employee, etc., […]
Data Federation – DW Patterns – The Virtual Data Source
Posted by Mike Ferguson | December 4, 2009 | BlogFollowing on from my last blog on data federation, the next data federation pattern I would like to discuss is a Data Warehouse Virtual Data Source pattern. This is as follows: Pattern Description This pattern uses virtual views of federated data to create virtual data source components for use in ETL processing. The purpose of this […]
External Data Feeds BI To the Front Office
Posted by Mike Ferguson | November 27, 2009 | BlogEverywhere I look at the moment I see my clients talking about needing to benchmark themselves against the market, to understand customer and prospect sentiment on social networking sites and to understand competitors in much more detail. It is not just me that has recognised this need. It also seems that new young start-up companies […]
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