Dr. Richard Hackathorn is president and founder of Bolder Technology, Inc., an established consultancy in Boulder, Colorado. Hackathorn has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and is a well-known technology innovator and international educator, conducting professional seminars in 18 countries. He has written three textbooks entitled Enterprise Database Connectivity, Using the Data Warehouse (with W.H. Inmon), and Web Farming for the Data Warehouse. He earned his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine. To contact, send e-mail to richardh@bolder.com.

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Science Intelligence. Can a Business Intelligence Approach Enable "Smart" Science?
August 1, 2005 This article argues that business and science are converging in terms of technologies, architectures and procedures for...

Are You Unwired?
November 1, 2004

Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat
September 1, 2004

eXtreme Data Warehousing
June 1, 2004

What Do We Do with What We Know?
May 1, 2004

Who Is On First?
March 1, 2004

Real-Time to Real-Value
January 1, 2004

IT Doesn't Matter?
November 1, 2003

The Link is the Thing, Part 3
October 1, 2003 This article, the final in this cutting-edge series, describes several metrics for analyzing graphs, strategies and tactics...

The Link is the Thing, Part 2
September 1, 2003 This article suggests a new approach to analyzing enterprise data using the "small-world" property of complex systems....

The Link is the Thing, Part 1
August 1, 2003 This article suggests a new approach to analyzing enterprise systems using the small-world property of complex systems.

Ethics of Business Intelligence, Part I
June 1, 2003

2003: Cover-Your-Rear-Year for BI
May 1, 2003

Selling BI in a Tight Economy
April 1, 2003

Let Alerting Lead the Way
March 1, 2003

The Early-Touch Principle: Key to Quality Customer Experiences
February 1, 2003

Vegas Reflections
December 1, 2002

Forward to the Past
November 1, 2002

Adaptive and Agile
October 1, 2002

Minimizing Action Distance
September 1, 2002

Web Farming for the Data Warehouse Is Coming!
June 1, 2002

What is Active Business Intelligence? Part 2
May 1, 2002

What is Active Business Intelligence? Part 1
April 1, 2002

BI and The New Reality
March 1, 2002

Making Business Intelligence Actionable
November 1, 2001

Mixing Privacy and Business Intelligence
September 1, 2001

BI for Intelligent Cost Structures
June 1, 2001

The State of the BI Marketplace
April 1, 2001 This article, based on an in-depth study conducted by Enterprise Management Associates, reports on the critical changes...

The BI Watch
March 1, 2001

Web-Based Management for Distributed Databases
March 1, 2001 BMC Software's Web DBA allows database systems to be managed in a more productive an flexible manner and permits the...

Data, Data Everywhere...
February 1, 2001

Little BI Versus Big BI
January 1, 2001

Farming Web Resources for the Data Warehouse
May 5, 2000 Revisit this classic article from the DM Review archives. Richard Hackathorn discusses how the concept of Web farming will...

Farming Web Resources for the Data Warehouse
June 1, 1999 The concept of web farming will change data warehousing, extending it into a more comprehensive system of knowledge management...