Leveraging Information and Intelligence

Why Web API Directories Drive Data-as-a-Service

davel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:50:10 +0000

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"Who Needs a Business Intelligence Strategy?"

davel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:05:18 +0000

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"Business intelligence programs not delivering"

davel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:15:15 +0000

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Understanding Data Integrity Issues in the Context of Cloud Computing

davel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000

When analyzing databases for cloud computing or SOA, or SOA using cloud computing, integrity issues constantly crop up. In order to address these, it is important to understand the rules and logic that were applied to the construction of...

Data Integration is a Huge Issue for Cloud Computing Migration

davel — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:55:12 +0000

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The Value of Data Abstraction for Data Integration

davel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:27:25 +0000

The use of a data abstraction layer and data integration when building a SOA provides some key advantages. While almost always a good idea, it comes with different levels of value, depending upon the problem domain, the core business needs,...

Three Categories of Data Latency

davel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:24:05 +0000

There are three categories of data latency when it comes to BI: 1. Real-time 2. Near-time 3. Some-time Real-time data is precisely what it sounds like - information that is placed in the database as it occurs, with...

Coding for data integration means getting it wrong 100 times, before you get it right once.

davel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:29:08 +0000

Rick Sherman had a nice post entitled "The Trial-and-Error Method for Data Integration." Clearly, Rick and I are kindred spirits, and I thought he made some great points. He points out the larger problems as: · "Not Developing an Overall...

The Differences between Combined and Abstract Data

davel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:38:27 +0000

In the world of business intelligence, most of those charged with building BI systems set up data warehouses as the place where decision support data is deposited after being cleansed, aggregated, and restructured. This seemed like the best approach...

MDM Becoming More Critical in Light of Cloud Computing

davel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:43:51 +0000

Master data management (MDM) is one of those topics that everyone considers important, but few know exactly what it is or have an MDM program. "MDM has the objective of providing processes for collecting, aggregating, matching, consolidating, quality-assuring, persisting and...

Why BI Consultants Don't Get Open Source BI

davel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:43:21 +0000

Ann All provides some great insights into the fact that "Consultants Are Laggards on Open Source Business Intelligence." "Business intelligence and open source are both pretty hot topics in the enterprise software space and open source BI vendors like Jaspersoft...

Addressing Data Integration Performance

davel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:31:02 +0000

Most organizations getting data integration working are so happy that it is indeed working, that they often do not consider performance. The result is dysfunctional data integration latency, or information not appearing in target systems as needed by the...

Data Services Need SOA Respect

davel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:03:46 +0000

In the world of SOA there are two types of services: Transactional services that deal with behavior, or what a service will do. Also, data services that deal with the data, or what information the service will produce and consume. ...

Why Data Integration is Critical to Cloud Computing

davel — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000

While the interest in cloud computing is at a fever pitch, the use of cloud computing brings up some fundamental questions, such as how we're going to drive data integration between the on-premise systems and the emerging use of...

Open Source Driving More Business Intelligence These Days

davel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:04:39 +0000

I'm seeing a whole lot of open source BI technology out there these days, including this announcement from Pentaho. Pentaho not only provides open source BI technology but is now making it easy for you to convert from the larger...