Data Integration and Management

Bull Market on BI in 2009

By dain.hansen on December 16, 2008 10:40 AM

Recently Timo Elliot, wrote four top reasons for "What Might Go Wrong in Business Intelligence in 2009". In his reason #2 he cites: Corporate cutbacks, "thou shalt not buy anything" policies, and new levels of sign-off will encourage some people...

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Unified Data is Key to your Bottom Line

By dain.hansen on December 11, 2008 2:50 PM

According to Chris Kanaracus from Computerworld, Gartner has lowered its worldwide enterprise software spending forecast from $229.2 billion, instead of the $231.2 billion that it predicted in September. This was impacted by "a combination of economic, technical and regional forces."...

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Accidental Architecture Insurance

By dain.hansen on November 26, 2008 9:57 AM

Recently, Rick Sherman describes the pitfalls of misaligned data-centric architectures in his article series:, the Accidental Architecture and Recovering from the Accidental Architecture. A word of caution: do not get too wrapped up in the architecture. Some companies will get...

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