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Can HP Neoview Survive and Thrive?
12. 3.2008

Mark Smith

HP has for many years capitalized on the data warehouse industry through its server and storage technologies, but in recent years has launched the HP Neoview data warehouse to play in the software and appliance aspect of the industry. While HP was out of the gate in 2007 with Neoview and appeared to have a rosy future, much has changed in the last year...

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Seth Grimes

Up Next: BI on Social Networks
11.30.2008
It's time for the BI community to treat social networks as the business-intelligence resource they are. The recent "Motrin moms" clamor and response to Mumbai terrorism prove networks' value. The value of the information that flows through these networks is indisputable. A deeper challenge is next on the agenda: optimizing that flow by better understanding the networks themselves.

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On Thanksgiving, Freedom for Some, Fear for Foreigners
11.26.2008

Cindi Howson

I hope you will excuse a departure from my BI-focused blogs to a more personal one, but on this Thanksgiving eve, I find myself thinking more about freedom and how fragile it is right now. If you are one of the many foreign-born BI product managers, software developers, or BI specialists I have met over the years, then you will want to read this story...

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Kas Thomas

RSS Is the New Personalization
11.24.2008
A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest. It turns out to be a nicely formatted aggregation page for Google blogs... The point worth emphasizing is that as Web content becomes more granular, compositional, and personalizable (not to mention more perishable), subscribability becomes a design consideration.

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Nine Choices on the Road to BI Solution Centers
December 1, 2008
by Boris Evelson and James Kobielus, Forrester Research
Forrester Research says BI Solution Centers offer a business-governed, solutions-focused edge over BI competency centers. Here are nine key considerations you'll face when building your BISC.

Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy
November 22, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Performance management guru David Norton tackles the challenge of aligning day-to-day decisions with big-picture strategy.

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Gallup Extends BI to the World of Research
Famous polling firm taps Oracle BI Enterprise Edition for internal reporting and customer self-service access to research results.

SAP, Business Objects Offer Joint Data Migration Services
The latest offering consists of a framework, templates, methodology, tools and expertise in moving data from multiple computing environments to an SAP ERP system.

Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.

Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months.

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