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Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor: Seth Grimes

Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems.
Write to him at grimes@altaplana.com.

Past Articles By Seth Grimes
Open Source BI Fights For Its Share
With growing capabilities in a strong segment, vendors are looking past developer markets to business end users.

BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future
Hans Peter Luhn envisioned a "business intelligence system" way back in 1958, but only recently has BI begun to serve up knowledge instead of numbers.

Infobright Boosts Open Source Data Warehousing
MySQL-based analytical DBMS joins MonetDB and LucidDB among open-source, column-store data warehousing options. Sun invests in newly competitive vendor.

What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research
Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.

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Blog: Breakthrough Analysis
by Seth Grimes

Up Next: BI on Social Networks
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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11.30.2008

Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend
Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools.
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11.17.2008

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