I think you’ll enjoy this brief article from Jeff Relkin. Some down to earth directions for people that are considering or have been asked to implement a data warehouse or similar project. Especially #8: Conduct the “25 question” analysis.
Browsing Posts published in October, 2006
Here’s an article by Scott Wanless on the B-Eye Network Healthcare Business Intelligence Triples the Value of Lean Initiatives.
Business intelligence helps to answer these strategic questions by combining internal data (e.g., patient data, sales data, staffing data) and external data (e.g., market statistics, partner data, payor data, etc.) into a historical repository for analysis of key trends, patterns, exceptions and opportunities.The results of this analysis are used to make informed decisions regarding the direction of the organization, its performance and the value provided to the various stakeholder groups.
(Not much going on today.)
Timeline of when human traces will finally disappear if we all suddenly died. Original article here.
The need to take action, not just be informed, is more urgent than ever due to the relentless externalization of business, the rapid emergence of loosely coupled computing environments based on standards, and the Web-as-the-platform paradigm.
This article from Neil Raden at Intelligent Enterprise covers some of the changes in the non-traditional and the leading-edge business intelligence space.
Microsoft released an OBA Reference Application for supply-chain management. What’s an OBA?
Traditional business applications do not enable collaboration across functional boundaries – which forces information workers to use personal productivity tools to fill these gaps in order to conduct business. This leads to a loss in productivity as users are forced to cross from one set of tools to another. Information workers need to bridge this divide in a way that is seamless, synchronized and secure. This requires a new breed of composite applications that can support cross-functional processes, and can be assembled from the collection of information assets that the business has already deployed. The 2007 Office System provides a platform for building these kinds of composite solutions, which are called Office Business Applications (OBAs).
Microsoft is battling back from the (deserved) bashing it has taken over the lack of a relevant Internet strategy. Recently an executive said they see a future of applications as a combination of Web services and installed products like Office–not only collaborative web applications. Absolutely.
I wonder how much they’re actually using, but having a capacity of 100 TB is still impressive.
"In Netezza’s Performance Server these nodes are known as Snippet Processing Units…an SPU consists of an FPGA (field programmable gate array) and a PowerPC processor."
