Monthly Archives: October 2006

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.

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Business Objects releases lightweight version of Crystal Xcelsius — CXNow! Download the software here.

I wonder how much they’re actually using, but having a capacity of 100 TB is still impressive.

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"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." Article at IT-Director.com by Philip Howard