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Intelligent Enterprise Contributor: Dave Stodder

Editor at Large
David Stodder is vice president and research director - information management and IT performance management at Ventana Research. He was previously editor-in-chief and editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. His email address is david.stodder@ventanaresearch.com

Recent Articles By Dave Stodder
Five Steps to Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance
The pressure is on business intelligence and data warehousing professionals to handle ever-higher data volumes and ever-more-complex queries while reducing decision latency. Follow this five-step approach to identify key business drivers, optimize system performance, guide new technology deployments, improve responsiveness, and invest for future performance demands.

Analyst's Take: Teradata 12.0 Counters the Appliances
More efficient processing, workload management and master data management help handle mixed workloads.

Special Report: BI Megatrends 2008
Complacency Be Gone! Enterprises seeking a competitive edge are looking toward competency centers, MDM, real-time deployments, data virtualization, workload management and operational intelligence. We help you answer six questions that will lead to innovative new BI strategies.

Analyst's Take: Actuate Targets Developer Interest in Open Source BI
Business application developers seek inexpensive, embeddable BI and reporting.

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Blog: Mission Intelligence
by Dave Stodder

Data 'Switzerland' Stretches Out
Informatica's goal is to be the hub that brings together structured and unstructured data and lets it flow easily across enterprise boundaries… Its stature as the biggest "Switzerland" in the data integration tool market makes it a welcome systems integrator partner. With IBM owning the former Ascential Software products… Informatica's nonaligned status has strong appeal.
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05.21.2007

Thoughts on Jim Gray, Database Pioneer
After a period of upheaval, I'm ready to resume contributing to the IE blog. My thoughts, however, are clouded by news of the apparent disappearance of Jim Gray, founder and head of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center. Gray contributed more than anyone to the advance of database and transaction processing technology, and it's just stunning that he appears to have left us.
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02.20.2007

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