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Nedstat Bows 'Live Segmentation'
08.26.2008

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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Curt Monash

David Raab Offers Kudos for QlikView
08.25.2008
David Raab is a great fan and former reseller of QlikTech’s QlikView. His recent lengthy post about the product is positive enough to have been recommended by the company itself. But of course, no technology is perfect... In particular, the idea that QlikView automagically gives you access to all your information, without any prior work, is refuted...

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When to Use Modern DBMS Alternatives
08.21.2008

Curt Monash

If there's one central theme in my blog, it's that modern DBMS alternatives should in many cases be used instead of the traditional market leaders... Here's a summary, reproduced from my most recent white paper, on what kinds of database management system you should use in which circumstances.

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Rajan Chandras

Is Excel a Complete BI Solution?
08.20.2008
The recently released Forrester Wave for Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms assesses 12 BI vendors/tools. The report does not include Excel as one of the 12 solutions, which led me to ponder: Can we consider Excel a BI tool in its own right? To qualify for the survey, the vendor (and tool) must provide...

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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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INFO MANAGEMENT NEWS & ANALYSIS

Amazon Cloud Adds Persistent Storage Feature
Customers will likely use Amazon's Elastic Block Store for a variety of things, including as a cloud-based database holding up to 1 TB of data.

Microsoft Drops Virtualization Fees For SQL Server 2008, Other Apps
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.

IBM Upgrades Master Data Management and Data Quality Products
Product Information Management and Information Server enhancements aimed at getting data right, matching names, standardizing terms and doing business around the globe.

Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
IT departments scramble to devise backup plans following service disruptions at Amazon, Citrix, and Google.

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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TOPICS

The Information Management channel offers thought leadership from experts including Rajan Chandras, Mark Madsen, Alan Pelz-Sharpe and The Kimball Group. You'll also find news coverage, trend analysis, Q&A interviews and case studies on the following topics:

Database Servers and Management

Data Integration

Data Quality, Cleansing and Master Data Management

Data Warehousing

Enterprise Content Management and Portals

Privacy & Security

Search and Information Retrieval

Taxonomy, Categorization and Classification

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