Wayne Eckerson

Wayne Eckerson is director of research at The Data Warehousing Institute, the industry's premier provider of in-depth, high-quality training and education in the data warehousing and business intelligence fields. He can be reached at weckerson@tdwi.org.

Recent Stories From this Author

Creating Effective KPIs
July 25, 2006 Key performance indicators are powerful tools to affect change within the organization

Creating Effective KPIs
June 1, 2006 Key performance indicators (KPIs) are levers that executives pull to move the organization in new directions and are,...

What Are Performance Dashboards?
November 1, 2005 Performance dashboards are only as effective as the organization they seek to measure. Organizations without central control...

Moving BI to the Enterprise
September 1, 2005 In the past five years, many BI tools vendors have made their product lines more friendly. The result is that many...

ADEs: The Rise of Buy and Extend BI Tools
June 1, 2005 Analytic development environments (ADEs), the newest development technique on the block, promise to accelerate the development...

The Dawn of the BI Director
March 1, 2005 Today, the stepchild status is changing. One sign of change is the growing stature of BI Directors who oversee data...

Gauge Your Data Warehouse Maturity
November 1, 2004 A data warehousing maturity model provides a quick way for you to gauge where your data warehousing initiative is now and...

The "Soft Side" of Real-Time BI
August 1, 2004 There are several critical factors involved in "real-time" BI systems that have nothing to do with technology. To succeed in...

Data Profiling: A Tool Worth Buying (Really!)
June 1, 2004 Skip data profiling in your data warehousing project, and you may find yourself mired in a cycle of "code, load and...

The Urge to Merge: Standardizing on an Enterprise BI Platform
March 1, 2004 Standardizing on one business intelligence (BI) platform offers substantial financial and strategic benefits. However, it...

The Rise and Fall of Spreadmarts
September 1, 2003 Although the data warehouse was funded to eliminate "dueling spreadsheets" and the informational chaos and feuding they...

TDWI: Smart Companies in the 21st Century Use Business Intelligence Wisely
August 5, 2003

E-Business Redux
June 1, 2000

Real-World Portals
May 1, 2000

BI Free Agency
April 1, 2000

Analyst Insight
March 1, 2000

E-Intelligence Framework
February 1, 2000

SAP Reinvents Itself
January 1, 2000

Federating Distributed Data
November 1, 1999

Converging Meta Data Standards
October 1, 1999

Reshaping the Market
September 1, 1999

Welcome to the E-Gap
July 1, 1999

Business Portals
June 1, 1999