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Why MapReduce Matters to SQL Data Warehousing
08.28.2008
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Curt Monash
Greenplum and Aster Data have both just announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL MPP data warehouse products. So why do I think this could be a big deal? The short answer is "Because MapReduce offers dramatic performance gains in analytic application areas that still need great performance speed-up." The long answer goes something like this...

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Cindi Howson
TDWI Roundup: BI Bake Off on the Beach?
08.27.2008
Back from sunny San Diego, place of TDWI's annual world conference. I kicked off my week with a birds-of-a-feather networking event. The most popular table? The business-IT partnership, which also happens to be one of the top barriers/enablers to BI success. The different perspectives — and just how polar opposites they could be — bordered on amusing.

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Nedstat Bows 'Live Segmentation'
08.26.2008
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Phil Kemelor
Last week, European Web analytics vendor Nedstat announced a new feature called "Live Segmentation," which enables you to develop customized behavioral analysis across unaggregated Web data. This missing capability was a downside for an offering that competes in Europe with the likes of Omniture, and WebTrends — two vendors already providing a data-warehouse-like features that enable deeper and more customizable analysis.

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Seth Grimes
Yahoo Plans "A New Generation of Search"
08.25.2008
Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research, says that Yahoo "will be launching a new generation of search in two to three months... Search is going to move in a completely new direction." The initiative, per a Financial Express interview, will build on Yahoo's BOSS (build your own search software) platform, which implements a "self-service Web services model for developers and start-ups."

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Seven Steps to Successful BI Competency Centers
August 24, 2008
by Doug Henschen
From setting a strategic vision and gaining C-level support to promoting successes and responding to emergencies, follow these seven suggestions for developing BICCs that boost business performance.

Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
August 18, 2008
by Antone Gonsalves
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.

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SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
The new Tracker feature tells an employer which salespeople are making use of SugarCRM's capabilities, which features are most frequently used, and which are being ignored.

Coral8 Upgrades CEP Engine
Coral8 Engine Release 5.4 includes greater configuration flexibility and enhancements to the vendor's Continuous Computation Language.

Jaspersoft Releases iReport For NetBeans
iReport is being offered as a plug-in for the integrated development environment, which is used to build Java desktop applications.

Oracle Reports More Than 23,000 Downloads Of Its iPhone Apps
While Apple iPhone apps have a small presence in the business world, IT execs at Disney, Genentech, and Kraft are endorsing the iPhone.

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data warehousing TECH INFO CENTER
Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
by Paul McDougall - August 19, 2008
IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
by Doug Henschen - August 18, 2008
Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
by Antone Gonsalves - August 18, 2008
Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
by J. Nicholas Hoover - August 16, 2008


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