Articles
The Operational Data Store – Thursday's Child
Perhaps the sparsity of attention paid to the operational data store (ODS) stems from the fact that the architectural structure of the ODS is a lot more free-form than other parts of the information
infrastructure.
Products and Architecture
An architecture for information for a company is hard to define because it has so many facets. Bill Inmon describes some of the elements an architecture would surely include.
Motivations for Building the Data Warehouse
Bill Inmon provides a review of the factors that motivate organizations to build corporate data warehouses.
Monitoring the Data Warehouse
Bill Inmon looks at dormant data in the data warehouse and provides suggestions for addressing data warehouse performance.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury
Bill Inmon questions the outcome of trials in cases that involve highly technical issues.
News
Teradata Introduces Teradata Accelerate
Teradata enables companies to rapidly deploy and quickly realize business value from their data warehouse investment.
Linux Becomes a Trusted Choice for Teradata Enterprise–Class Data Warehouses
Teradata and Novell will provide customers a new level of support.
iMakeNews Selects the Dataupia Satori Server
The Dataupia Satori Server enables iMakeNews to deliver a superior offering of analytical data in an all–in–one unified solution.
Merkle Selects ParAccel Analytic Database
Merkle selected the ParAccel Analytic Database for its higher performance, scalability and cost effectiveness.
Infobright and Talend Partner
The connector will allow users of Talend's enterprise open source data integration solutions to leverage the fast data loader built into Infobright Enterprise Edition.
White Papers
The Evolution of Integration
This white paper explains how data integration grows from simple data movement to complex transformation functions, and how modern data integration technology enables organizations to deploy data
integration technology.
Integrating Data in the Information System - An Open Source Approach
Data integration guarantees the consistency of data in the overall information system. This white paper describes how open source helps solves the interoperability challenge.
SAP NetWeaver and DW2.0
Today the architectural concept of data warehousing has evolved to DW2.0.
Unlocking the Potential of Information Lifecycle Management
Usage-Based Data Classification for Oracle Databases
This joint white paper from Oracle and Zettapoint describes usage-based Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and how it can dramatically reduce the size of large databases, resulting in
significantly lower DW operating costs and improved BI performance.
The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration
Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should
consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.
Case Studies
Dialing Up Blazingly Fast Call Detail Analysis with Vertica
With Vertica, NetworkIP will be able to create new business intelligence tools because it now has a database engine that can create new CDR-mining reports in a day or so instead of a week or weeks.
Spotlights
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Mayank Bawa, CEO and Cofounder of Aster Data Systems
Mayank Bawa explains how Aster Data Systems' front-line data warehousing allows for always-on, always-parallel, high-performance analytics. |
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Jim Pflaging, President and Chief Executive Officer of SenSage
Jim Pflaging explains how the SenSage purpose-built data warehouse gives rapid answers from mountains of event-based log data. |
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Siegfried Plommer, President of iQ4bis
Siegfried Plommer explains how iQ4bis provides rapidly deployed, end-to-end business intelligence analysis, charting and reporting for the Microsoft stack. |
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