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Senate: Flawed Payment Data Widespread

news: Use of discredited Ingenix databases to determine physician reimbursement was endemic, according to congressional investigators

Aster Data Appliance Lowers Entry Cost

news: Vendor claims that at $50,000, the MapReduce Data Warehouse Appliance is the industry’s most cost-effective appliance

Hyland Software Buys Valco Data

news: Document imaging and management software vendor acquires complementary software

Aligning IT with Business Goals

feature: CIOs don’t need to be left speechless when asked in-depth questions about IT operations

Product Spotlight - July 1, 2009

news: News about new and recently updated products from Oracle, SAP, ParAccel and more

Burris’ Business Case for Business Integration

feature: Ed Krupka is CIO for Burris Logistics discusses the importance if a strong business integration technology

Are We Still Business Focused?

feature: Business intelligence should be seen as a business initiative and a business ownership venture

Ensure the Lasting Success of BI

feature: The business intelligence competency center is becoming a top priority to ensure a BI program is being more strategically driven with a long-term vision

Blogs

Different People Need Different Info…

Robert Abate: Different business audiences require varying intelligence needs and focus

Sun and Oracle:

Baseline Consulting: The recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle has raised a lot of speculative discussion about the latter vendor’s strategic pursuits

CDI: Rubber Meets Road

Jim Ericson: At MDM Summit in Toronto, random pearls of wisdom from Ed Unrau at Canadian Tire Financial Services

Bogle for BI

Steve Miller: I periodically revisit Bogle's wisdom not only to affirm my investment approach but also as a guide for BI

BI SaaS Vendors Struggle to Survive and Some Do Not

The market for BI might seem rosy for most in the industry. While some analyst firms predict significant growth, most of us who have been in the industry for decades know a different reality

BI Mashup Maturity Model? Oxymoron? Au Contraire Mon Frère!

The Forrester Muse: Forrester has developed a maturity model for enterprise adoption of mashup-style, self-service development of business intelligence applications

Case Studies / Profiles

The Tracker

Calvin Johnson and Washington, D.C.'s parole and probation agency apply business intelligence to keep the streets of the capital safer

Clearing a Data Pileup

At global roadway traffic monitor ITIS, sheer volumes of information paved the way for data warehouse appliance efficiencies

Collette Vacations Transforms its Entire Marketing Function

Collette Vacations has seen new media channels transform its entire industry. For today’s travel customers, interactive Web sites, rich media emails and other types of digital communications have become the preferred way to find and evaluate travel choices

Pfizer's Prescription for Data

Federated integration speeds huge R&D projects at the world's largest drug manufacturer

Leadership Zone

Is Performance Management Art, Craft or Science?

For today’s organizations implementing the various component methodologies of the performance management framework, how much is art, craft or science?

The Imperative of Analytics

Accenture survey shows executives view analytics as key to staying competitive

Rattling Down Under

Data mining or machine learning, like just about everything in R, suffers from an embarrassment of riches

When Three-Letter Acronyms Collide

Though entry points differ, user conference provides more proof that data, process and integration cannot be siloed projects

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DM Radio

Upcoming & Recent Shows:

Open-Source BI -- Moving Beyond SMB?

June 18, 2009
Even the skeptical analysts these days admit that open-source technology presents a viable alternative to otherwise expensive enterprise software. Are they right? Tune in to hear from several open-source leaders. We'll discuss TCO, SOA, CYA and more with Talend, Jitterbit, Pentaho and Jaspersoft.

The Future of Data Centers: Virtual, Green or Flashy?

June 25, 2009
Are Data Centers a thing of the past? Hardly! Virtualization and the Cloud have ushered in a new era of Data Centers, and various technological advances offer whole new ways of doing things. Tune in to this episode to hear from several major players, including BDNA, Tideway and StrataScale.

Executive Interview

Overheard: Survival BI

Veteran BI consultant and author, Cindi Howson, sees vendor repackaging as a way to meet tight client spending

Overheard: Integration Rationalization

Gartner's integration guru makes the case for shared services and standardization

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