November 2012 Multiple sponsors Download pdf The EMA / 9sight Big Data online survey was comprised of 255 business intelligence and data management professionals, and was designed to identify the key trends surrounding the adoption, expectations and challenges connected to Big Data. This report summarizes the findings. […]
October 2012 Sponsored by International Business Machines Download pdf Taming the big data beasts is the next big step in data management. To achieve success, this requires a technically diverse and deeply integrated platform for all information, an enterprise-level approach, and rapid deployment of big data projects. […]
September 2012 Business Intelligence Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2012) Download pdf Important and innovative decisions in almost all organizations are mostly made by teams, permanent or transitory, of people, rather than individuals. A new iSight model maps the path from the information cues that signal change is required, through the team interactions and implementation [...]
May 2012 Sponsored by MongoDB Download pdf NoSQL databases are becoming more prevalent, but their possible bole in BI is misunderstod. This paper focuses on MongoDB, a leading document-oriented, NoSQL database, to understand how this technology can be applied to BI and positioning it in a new architectural vision of pervasive support for decision making. [...]
April 2012 Sponsored by International Business Machines Corp Download pdf In this paper, we describe what operational analytics is and what it offers to the business. We explore its relationship to business intelligence (BI) and see how traditional data warehouse architectures struggle to support it. Now, the combination of advanced hardware and software technologies–as seen [...]
March 2012 Sponsored by Lyzasoft, Inc. Download pdf This paper presents iSight, a model of collaborative decision-making and innovation. It describes a high-level architecture, bringing together formal and informal information–the worlds of Business Intelligence and Enterprise 2.0, that maps to specific tools and methods required to create a systematic process within the enterprise to deliver [...]
November 2011 Sponsored by Teradata, Inc. Download pdf This paper proposes seven fundamental traits of data structure, composition and use that enable IT professionals to examine existing and new data sources and respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by new business demands and novel technological advances. […]
October 2011 Sponsored by NeutrinoBI Download pdf In this paper, we describe freeform search–a method that enables business users with no knowledge of data structures and relationships to explore for themselves their structured business data in a wholly unstructured and adaptive manner. […]
May 2011 Sponsored by WhereScape USA, Inc. Download pdf This paper first explores the issues that plague data warehouse development projects and the most common trades-off made by vendors and developers. One compelling solution, the concept of data driven design is described, and a number of recommendations are provided on how data warehouse design and [...]
February 2011 From a series of articles published on B-Eye-Network.com from February 2010 to January 2011 Download pdf Data warehousing / business intelligence has played a remarkable role in IT over the past few decades. It has remained a relatively closed ecosystem, both in terms of the vendors involved and the delivery teams within IT [...]