Shaku Atre is president of Atre Group Inc. and of a leading consulting, training and publishing company specializing in business intelligence. An acknowledged expert in the data warehousing and database field and an exceptional speaker, she captures the attention of audiences and maintains their interest while guiding her listeners through sophisticated material. Before heading her present company, Ms. Atre was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She also has 14 years of experi­ence in various fields with IBM. As a prolific writer, she has published more than 500 columns in various publications and is the author of a number of books, including “Database: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management,” ‘Information Center: Strategies and Case Studies,” “Database Management Systems,” “Distributed Databases, Cooperative Processing & Networking,” “Atre’s Roadmap for Data warehouse/Data mart Implementations,” and “Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications.” She can be contacted at shaku@atre.com. Download some of her previously published columns at www.atre.com/forms/survey1.html.

Who in the World Doesn’t Want to be Big, Strong and Fast?
May 17, 2011 Consumers are driving BI trends and application development for scalability

Who in the World Wants to Just be Structured?
May 4, 2011 Bringing unstructured data into the BI world

Who in the World Needs a Hard Drive?
April 21, 2011 The Value of In-Memory Analytics

Who in the World Uses Only Words and Numbers in Reports?
April 6, 2011 Dos and Don’ts of Effective Dashboards

Who in the World Wants to Stay Locked Up?
March 22, 2011 Weighing the potential of open source BI

Who in the World Doesn’t Want to Reach for the Clouds?
March 9, 2011 What you need to know about private, public, hybrid clouds and the advantages and drawbacks of these architectures

Who in the World Wouldn’t Want a Collaborative BI Architecture?
February 24, 2011 In order to provide a unified user experience, the software needs a uniform design, under the cover of one flexible server....

Who in the World Wants More Data?
February 9, 2011 True BI is the right data in the form of actionable information to the right people at the right time and at the right cost

Who in the World Needs a Data Warehouse?
January 26, 2011 Although data warehouse vendors don’t like to admit that building a data warehouse is a long and winding road, there are...

Who in the World Wouldn’t Want to Evaluate BI Products?
January 13, 2011 A Guide to Evaluating Business Intelligence Products

Does BI Have to be Extroverted, Introverted or Both?
July 23, 2008 BI must assist the consumers, businesses, employees and decision-makers inside and outside organizational walls. Rich Internet...

Can It Be Done?
October 29, 2007 BI applications have to be enhancing, expanding and evolving to be pervasive.

Enterprise Reporting Fiction and Fact
July 1, 2005 Available, accurate enterprise reporting addresses compliance, earns market trust and provides better organizational management

Real-Time Analysis and Data Integration for BI
February 1, 2004 While architecting the real-time decision support environment, business and technology managers must avoid the trap of...

Discovery: The Road to Business Intelligence
June 1, 2003 In this final article of their series, Blumberg and Atre discuss discovery systems, the systems designed to automatically...

Digging Into the Web: XML, Meta Data and Other Paths to Unstructured Data
May 1, 2003 In today's economy, making unstructured data available to decision-makers at all levels of the organization is required to...

Automatic Classification: Moving to the Mainstream
April 1, 2003 The new generation of search products and technologies promises to transform infoglut into an information opportunity.

More Than Search
March 1, 2003 This is the second installment of a five-part series. This article explores how the new generation of search products and...

The Problem with Unstructured Data
February 1, 2003 This is the first in a series of articles that will look at the emerging solutions for treating unstructured data and some...