The emergence of the Virtual data warehouse.
The Emergence of the Virtual Data Warehouse Data warehousing projects have long been considered the holy grail of data m …
Should getting a master list of customers still be this hard?
Why is it that with the things that seem impossible we somehow manage to buckle up, tackle and conquer the seemingly ins …
The lost art of ad hoc inquiry
Is it just me or does it seem like the only way to get information from enterprise systems is to run a report or view a …
Excel – The world’s best calculator and the world’s worst database
Who ever thought that when Microsoft launched Excel back in 1985 it would go on to be the lifesaver it has become, not j …
Your data Real Time or Right Time?
While we now live in a world of instant gratification where people are short on patience, when it comes to understanding …
Clean data – Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Are we reaching the point where we should seriously give up on our obsession with clean data?
Application Intelligence – why should you care?
The software industry is world class at introducing new terms that promise to transform how people leverage technology f …
Still using CSV for integration - think again.
It has been 50 years since the Comma Separated Values (CSV) data format was created and on one side it is a testimony to …
Time for a strategic approach to planning data integration.
Business planning systems like Anaplan, Vena, and Bizview are rapidly becoming some of the most strategic systems to the …
