Pervasive BI is on the rise, offering everyday business users access to
BI. Extending BI to frontline users opens up new venues such as rooting
business culture and enhancing employee training. In this expert
webcast, learn more about the pros and cons of pervasive BI solutions,
specific vendor offerings and ways to get executive buy - in.
Data
integration suffers from an image problem. It has become synonymous with
extract, transform and load (ETL). Likewise, ETL has been regarded as a data
warehousing (DW) technology. Both of
these viewpoints do not reflect current capabilities and greatly inhibit
enterprises in their attempt to integrate data to provide the information their
business needs.
Because of this short-sightedness companies have lost opportunities to harness information as a corporate asset. It increases the cost of integrating data, encourages the creation of data silos and forces business people to spend an inordinate amount of time filling the information gaps themselves through data shadow systems or reconciling data.
>>> Continue to the rest of my article, Data Integration: Beyond ETL and Data Warehousing, on the Information Management website.
The Business Intelligence (BI) index continues to outpace the broader market indexes with YTD gains of 28.4%. The attached chart (click on the image to see a larger version) compares these indexes with broader market indexes along with a select set of high tech ETFs. High tech, as we has discussed, is currently the industry leader for the year and is likely to provide leadership with an upward market.
Continue reading "Business Intelligence (BI) Index: Weekly Update 06-26-2009" »
In our previous post People, Process & Politics: Stop the (Integration) Madness we discussed how we have promoted integration silos by fragmenting those efforts across organizations, applications and projects.
Ending the integration silo cycle requires a fundamental change - viewing data integration holistically. From an architecture level, we need to view all the pieces: information, data, technology and product. More importantly, we need to view data integration from political and organizational perspectives. Most IT projects fail due to people problems, not because of technology.
To establish data integration as a business asset, you need to create the following:
Continue reading "People, Process & Politics: Business & Integration" »
Our business intelligence (BI) and on-demand software stock indexes have been on a strong run this year. As discussed, this has accompanied a overall market bounce from March lows and support high tech in its current leadership role in year-to-date performance.
MarketWatch in its market snapshot yesterday "Technology the brightest, most volatile star of stock market" commented on the tech sector. The article substantiated our earlier observations that tech is often an early stage leader but that the market, and tech, may have gotten ahead of itself. Caution in the near term is advised in this sector but long-term growth should be strong as we emerge from this recession.
The following chart listing S&P industry sector performance yesterday and YTD. The chart is derived from statistics from my favorite show to excercise to -- "Fast Money." The numbers were shown on the show and in "How Deep Will The Correction Get?"
