TDWI: Predictions for 2013
I’m a big fan of TDWI and read every year their “prediction issue.” In TDWI’s BI This Week newsletter, author Mike Schiff lays out his top predictions for 2013 and reviews how he did on his 2012...
View ArticleSix BI Catch Phrases for 2013
Wayne (Wayne Eckerson of the BI Leadership Forum) and I go way back and have been friends for nearly two decades. I read this blog entry from him during the holidays and thought it was very...
View ArticleData Wars Begin…
I try to find several interesting, unusual articles each week. So, I’m scanning my favorite blogs and media sites, and I see this as a tease, “In 2020, the annual amount of digital data created,...
View ArticleGartner’s Top Trends Impacting Information Architecture in 2013
Gartner Press Release, March 6, 2013 Gartner, Inc. has identified the top technology trends that will play key roles in modernizing information management (IM) in 2013 and beyond, making the role of...
View ArticleDeveloping a Business Analytics Roadmap
Over the last few years IT industry analysts have pointed out that business intelligence is at or near the top of priority lists for many CIOs. Executives want it because they believe it will have a...
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Microsoft Announces SQL Server 2014 during Microsoft TechEd 2013
Last week during Microsoft TechEd 2013, Microsoft announced plans to incorporate in-memory OLTP (through a new engine codenamed Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014. They also expanded on some features...
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Big SQL Analytics: What Is It and Why Should You Care?
Today, analytics have become mainstream in the majority of organizations. Moreover, most of the analytics and data warehousing implementations have been built using traditional relational database...
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Persistence and Flexibility: What Analytics Can Learn from Physics
I’m pretty certain that any philosophical text carries a hidden instruction set which directs the human brain to <loop infinitely> until a self-preserving interrupt command is issued on our...
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Webinar: Big SQL Analytics – Amazon Redshift Overview
On August 20, Bernard Wehbe, co-founder of StatSlice Systems, presented a webinar on Amazon Redshift as part of our series on Big SQL Analytics. This webinar was recorded and is available below. This...
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Big SQL Analytics: Redshift Webinar Q&A Summary
I recently conducted a webinar on Redshift as part of our Big SQL tools investigation series. At the end of the webinar, we had some pretty interesting questions and answers. I thought it would be a...
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Webinar: Big SQL Analytics – Amazon Redshift with Tableau
On September 24, James Vogel, Senior Consultant at StatSlice Systems, presented a webinar on the Amazon Redshift connector for Tableau as part of our series on Big SQL Analytics. This webinar was...
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