Reactive and Proactive Business Intelligence
This article is aimed at those people who want to understand how business intelligence can affect how we make decisions…
Bill Baker, Distinguished Engineer and General Manager of Business Intelligence for the Microsoft Office Business Platform and Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining
Donald Farmer and Bill Baker discuss the key milestones Microsoft has achieved within the BI marketplace, explain how PerformancePoint Server…
How Mature is Your Data Management Environment?
At the initial stage of the Enterprise Data Management Maturity Model, confusion reigns. Complicating the problem is that most organizations…
The Right Tool for the Right Job
Selecting the wrong software tools for a project can have an enormous impact on the success of a business intelligence…
The Socialization of Knowledge
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored…
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
Developing an enterprise architecture can be viewed as connect-the-dots for adults. However, in doing so, all you get is a…
Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data
There is an urgent need to acknowledge the limitations of data models and find a way to bridge the logical-physical…
2007 Best Practices Award Winner: Memorial Sloan-Kettering
A committee defined a methodology to create, maintain, and administer a data warehouse that would ultimately unite clinical, operational, and…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 6
Published in TDAN.com July 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
Eye on TDWI – May 2007
Tim provides a recap of the classes, activities and people at the Boston TDWI World Conference in May.