Flexible Fact Tables – Best Practice or Rope To Hang Business Users With?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | March 20, 2009 | Blog

Blogging occasionally offers up opportunity to open up a good debate. So here goes! Over the last several years I have observed data models in many different BI systems across different vertical industries where so called ‘generic’ fact tables have been designed with only one ‘generic’ measure. The objective of the design approach is that the […]

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Trusted BI Critical in a Tough Climate

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | January 27, 2009 | Blog

It’s pretty clear that Business Intelligence is becoming even more strategic in this tough economic climate as companies seek to have greater insight to help them stay profitable and keep making money. By default almost it would seem that trusted intelligence has got to be there for BI to be reliable and support confident decision […]

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Some BI Ideas for 2009

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | December 24, 2008 | Blog

So here we are at the end of 2008. Another amazing year in the area of BI. In the 18 years I have been specialising in this IT sector, I suppose you might wonder what else is there to do here. After all BI is a mature market, indeed many of my clients today could […]

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Oracle Enters The DW Appliance Market

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | September 25, 2008 | Blog

Well now – has the inevitable happened? Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO finally recognised the value of the hardware/software combination in the business analytics marketplace. This market, pioneered over 20 years ago by Teradata and now thriving with many other players including Netezza, ParAccel, Datupia, ExaSol, Vertica and others, has now become a target for Oracle […]

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Flood Gates on Operational BI on the Verge Of Breaking Wide Open

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | July 30, 2008 | Blog

It seems that everywhere I look the number of vendors gearing up for Operational BI is just massing as if awaiting an onslaught on the market. Among them include HP, IBM, InforSense, Progress, Tibco, SL, ThinkAnalytics and many more. Key to this is event driven data integration, in-memory data, predictive analytics and rules engines. Vendors […]

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