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When to Use Modern DBMS Alternatives
08.21.2008
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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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Kognitio and Data as a Service Gain Traction
08.19.2008
blog author
Seth Grimes
"Gaining traction" is a good description of Kognitio's Data as a Service message. Signs are that Kognitio's DaaS positioning is helping the company define itself and carve a niche in the crowded and dynamic data warehousing-analytics market. That positioning may need tighter focus, but focus will surely come as the company signs some of the prospects it has gained since its February North American launch.

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Curt Monash
Comparing Vertica, ParAccel and Exasol
08.19.2008
I talked with executives at Nuremberg, Germany-based Exasol last week — at 5:00 am ET! — and of course want to blog about it. For clarity, I'd like to start by comparing/contrasting the fundamental data structures at Vertica, ParAccel, and Exasol. And it feels like that should be a separate post. So here goes.

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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.

Of BI and Baseball: Two Reports Present Vendor and Product Standings
August 11, 2008
by Doug Henschen
It ain't over till it's over, and Forrester and BIScorecard reports say the business intelligence playoffs are a long way off.

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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.

SAP Business Objects Takes Next Steps on Performance Management, BI
Outlooksoft, Pilot and Cartesis applications 'integrated' with NetWeaver and BusinessObjects XI. Xcelsius presentation app hits the desktop, while SAP customers get free Crystal.

BI Tools Can Slice And Dice Data Without A Data Warehouse
A medical center is using DataWatch's Web-based Monarch BI Server to analyze patient data from lab reports and other sources to improve care.

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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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