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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Data Warehousing: A Spotlight Q&A with Gertjan Vlug and Steve Aspris of BIReady Summary
In this spotlight interview, Gertjan Vlug and Steve Aspris discuss the BIReady value proposition for data warehousing. They explain that while the cost savings are a major advantage, the greatest advantage is time to market of the solution.

Topics: Data Warehousing

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
01-16-2012
10 IT Recommendations for the New Year Summary
What better way to start the new year than to make resolutions for improving your IT department? In this article, Bill Inmon provides 10 helpful suggestions that would make great resolutions for 2012.

Topics: Information Management
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by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
01-05-2012
Data Warehousing – The Vision Summary
Bill Inmon describes how advances in technology and new data types have shaped the evolution of the data warehouse.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Unstructured Data, Text Analytics

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
12-01-2011
Business Intelligence without Complexity - A Spotlight Q&A with Scott Opitz, CEO of Altosoft Summary
This BeyeNetwork spotlight features Ron Powell’s interview with Scott Opitz, President and CEO of Altosoft. Ron and Scott discuss Altosoft’s business intelligence philosophy and touch upon Active Intelligence, an Altosoft offering to be announced in 2012.

Topics: Business Intelligence

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
10-28-2011
Big Data Analytics: A Spotlight Q&A with Mark Troester of SAS Summary
Ron Powell interviews Mark Troester to learn the impact of big data on analytics.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Big data

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
10-17-2011
Business Intelligence in the Cloud - A Spotlight Q&A with Dwight deVera of arcplan Summary
Dwight deVera of arcplan talks with Ron Powell about whether it's possible and/or practical to move business intelligence to the cloud.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
10-10-2011
The Beautiful Data Model Summary
Bill Inmon explains that there are objective criteria that must be taken into consideration when judging data models.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and Design

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
10-06-2011
SPOTLIGHT: Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence - A Q&A with Richard Daley of Pentaho Summary
In this Spotlight, Ron Powell and Richard Daley discuss the benefits of open source business intelligence.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Open Source BI

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
09-19-2011
SPOTLIGHT: Columnar Databases and Big Data Q&A with Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright Summary
In this spotlight, Ron Powell asks Don DeLoach to talk about big data, columnar databases and Infobright's Rough Query capability.

Topics: Analytics, Columnar Databases

by Ron Powell | 0 comments
07-06-2011
Metadata in the Data Warehouse Summary
Bill Inmon talks about early data warehouses and why metadata was not included in those data warehouses.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Metadata

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
05-20-2011
Data Warehousing: Kimball vs. Inmon (By Inmon) Summary
In this article, Bill Inmon compares and contrasts the Inmon and Kimball approaches to data warehousing, highlighting the pros and cons of each approach.

Topics: Data Warehousing
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by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
07-22-2010
Three Types of Data Models Summary
Bill Inmon discusses operational data models, data warehouse (or analytical) data models and global data models.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and Design

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
05-06-2010
Cleaning Structured Transaction-Based Data Summary
Bill Inmon compares the task of cleaning structured transaction-based data to that of sweeping sand in a beach house – it's a losing proposition.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Unstructured Data, ETL, Data Migration

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
03-25-2010
An IT Progression Summary
Bill Inmon takes a look at the amazing transformations IT has undergone since the 1960s.

Topics: Data Warehousing

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
03-11-2010
And a Sawyer Takes the Pot Summary
Bill Inmon contradicts the flawed logic of the corporate bully.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence

by Bill Inmon | 0 comments
03-04-2010

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