Intelligence in business intelligence is the ability to realize business success with easy assess to actionable information through timely and accurate insight into business conditions

The answer to America’s financial meltdown will involve information management

Governance will help an organization’s COE reap benefits from data assets

Set realistic expectations for the delivery of useful knowledge, not perfect information

Why is it that some companies still lack any plans to move forward on business performance management?

Metadata management is key to the future health of our database systems

Letter to the Readers

Finding information on the Web is easier than finding information in an organization

The Information Difference conducted a survey regarding the business motivation, level of maturity and adoption of data governence

Green BI will be a key driver in helping companies become eco-friendly entities

Kognitio’s U.S. CEO eyes new roads for data warehousing in emergent delivery models and hardware designs

An analytical plan ensures that users are ready for the database as soon as it is ready

Surgical productivity at Lahey Clinic gets a boost from business activity monitoring and role-based dashboards

Results are driven by having the right strategy and the right information, both structured and unstructured

The next generation of search will enable business users to eaily and immediately search and discover the mission-critical structured data they need, without burdening IT

There is a difference of opinion in what to call a high-level data model

This article tackles claims that mainframe BI is more complex than server-based solutions, too inflexible and too labor-intensive

Fact tables contain the fundamental measurements of the enterprise, and they are the ultimate target of most data warehouse queries

REVIEWER: P. Bhasker, chief technology officer for Nationwide Financial. BACKGROUND: Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) provides financial services that help customers invest and protect their long-term assets and also offers retirement plans and services through public- and private-sector employers. It is part of the Nationwide group of companies, offering diverse insurance and financial services, and is led by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, ranked number 108 in the Fortune 500 based on 2007 revenue. …

REVIEWER: Philip Papadopoulous, program director, Grid and Cluster Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center. BACKGROUND: The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine that includes more than 1,000 researchers organized around more than 50 projects on the future of telecommunications and IT and how these technologies will transform a range of applications. …

As information professionals, we can be intimidated by our fears of Web 2.0 anarchy, or we can choose to apply these practices to our advantage

Results are driven by having the right strategy and the right information, both structured and unstructured

An analytical plan ensures that users are ready for the database as soon as it is ready

There is a difference of opinion in what to call a high-level data model

Fact tables contain the fundamental measurements of the enterprise, and they are the ultimate target of most data warehouse queries

Green BI will be a key driver in helping companies become eco-friendly entities

Governance will help an organization’s COE reap benefits from data assets

The answer to America’s financial meltdown will involve information management

How do you measure “ease of use”?

Set realistic expectations for the delivery of useful knowledge, not perfect information

Why is it that some companies still lack any plans to move forward on business performance management?

Finding information on the Web is easier than finding information in an organization

Letter to the Readers

Kognitio’s U.S. CEO eyes new roads for data warehousing in emergent delivery models and hardware designs

As information professionals, we can be intimidated by our fears of Web 2.0 anarchy, or we can choose to apply these practices to our advantage

The next generation of search will enable business users to eaily and immediately search and discover the mission-critical structured data they need, without burdening IT

Surgical productivity at Lahey Clinic gets a boost from business activity monitoring and role-based dashboards

This article tackles claims that mainframe BI is more complex than server-based solutions, too inflexible and too labor-intensive

Intelligence in business intelligence is the ability to realize business success with easy assess to actionable information through timely and accurate insight into business conditions

The Information Difference conducted a survey regarding the business motivation, level of maturity and adoption of data governence

Metadata management is key to the future health of our database systems

REVIEWER: Philip Papadopoulous, program director, Grid and Cluster Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center. BACKGROUND: The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine that includes more than 1,000 researchers organized around more than 50 projects on the future of telecommunications and IT and how these technologies will transform a range of applications. …

REVIEWER: P. Bhasker, chief technology officer for Nationwide Financial. BACKGROUND: Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) provides financial services that help customers invest and protect their long-term assets and also offers retirement plans and services through public- and private-sector employers. It is part of the Nationwide group of companies, offering diverse insurance and financial services, and is led by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, ranked number 108 in the Fortune 500 based on 2007 revenue. …