Blog
August 25, 2008
Operational Business Intelligence Seminar in Copenhagen
August 11, 2008
Pacific Northwest Business Intelligence Summit
August 8, 2008
Dallas TDWI - "Understanding Master Data Management and the Benefits"
July 24, 2008
Microsoft buys Datallegro!
July 24, 2008
William McKnight, Lucidity Consulting Group
Articles
It's No Longer Tracking, It's Locating
Will RFID routinely be used in the healthcare field to track the location of equipment, employees and even patients?
The Evolution of RFID System Architectures and the Development of Pervasive Computing
Passive Tags and Active Tags, Centralization and Decentralization
RFID tags are on a path to becoming the basic building blocks and the volume driver of pervasive computing.
EPCIS: Supply Chain Visibility and Business Intelligence
Leading companies are building custom RFID business intelligence to get the most usage out of the EPCIS standard.
RFID Database Management Systems Architecture for Retailers
With uses for RFID gaining in acceptance, there are two primary uses of database management in RFID support.
How Close is Bar Code to RFID & What are the Implications for Hiring RFID Employees?
Using a popular technology adoption model as a framework, this article discusses the adoption of RFID technology, compares and contrasts the adoption of bar code and RFID technologies, and then presents the implications for hiring RFID employees.
News
Gemstone Systems Announces Partnership with Adobe
Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will embed GemStone’s GemFire Enterprise software into LiveCycle ES.
Xterprise Announces Clarity Advances a New Suite of Solutions for Retail Applications
Solution introduces advanced inventory management and execution capabilities for the fashion apparel, specialty and high tech retail industry segments.
SAND Technology Enters into an OEM Agreement with MicroStrategy
SAND plans to include MicroStrategy software in its data management solutions to provide advanced reporting capabilities to its customers.
IBM Introduces Two Software Products as Part of InfoSphere Portfolio
These products have been enhanced both in terms of capabilities and ease of deployment to better help customers create and manage trusted information from across the enterprise to improve business
performance.
Infobionics Challenges Corporate CIOs
The revolutionary Infobionics Cellular DBMS is the first fluid, dynamic solution for managing, navigating and querying data.
White Papers
Data Mart Consolidation: Repenting for the Sins of the Past
Learn the keys to successful data mart consolidation, including merging data marts into a new warehouse, picking an existing warehouse and merging other warehouses into it, and moving analytical
functionality from other databases into a data warehouse.
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.
Optimize Your Enterprise Data Warehouse
Discover proven, best practices and design options for a data warehouse that can significantly reduce system and maintenance costs by tailoring the system investment to match the value of the
resulting analytic capabilities.
Modernizing and Advancing Information Management Across the Enterprise
Business units – and the systems they utilize for real-time decisioning – need high quality, well-performing, and corporately arbitrated information in real-time.
Choosing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Data Warehousing
A Microsoft-based data warehouse can be implemented quickly and supports the analysis of data from many operational systems.
Case Studies
Managing Sensor Data for Fleet Tracking using the Vertica Analytic Database
How the Vertica Analytic Database was used to improve the performance of a fleet tracking prototype application at MIT.
Spotlights
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Joseph Foley, Chief Architect and Cofounder of illuminate Solutions
Joseph Foley discusses a new type of database engine, called a correlation database, for building data warehouses, data marts and analytics applications where users require real-time data loading and have strong needs for ad hoc analysis. |
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Marty Moseley, Chief Technical Officer of Initiate Systems
Marty Moseley explains how Initiate Master Data Service serves as a platform for organizations to apply master data management techniques to the business problems and needs of specific markets. |
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Doug Cogswell, President & Chief Executive Officer for ADVIZOR Solutions
Doug Cogswell explains how ADVIZOR combines data visualization with in-memory data management and predictive analytics to provide simpler and more intuitive problem solving capabilities. |
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