Posted on July 7th, 2008 by admin
I hope this will help the BI practiser to evaluate the tools used at different process and the available tools.
Types of business intelligence toolsThe general categories of business intelligence tools are:
1.Spreadsheets[1]
Lotus 1-2-3
Microsoft Excel
Apple Numbers
OpenOffice.org
more
2.Reporting and querying software - are tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Why Build a Data Warehouse?
For decades, companies have been spending millions of $$$’s on systems to streamline and automate the execution of the business plan. Over time, these systems have become more and more integrated within a companies operations and between business partners. However, due to the granularity of the data stored in […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Business Intelligence Overview
True value of Business Inteligence comes from recognizing and harnessing the power of technology to help change the way you do business. After all – unless there are real decisions made with the information provided by a data warehouse, all you have is a data warehouse, not a decision support application.
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Four Tips for Better Business Intelligence in 2008
Avalanches of data and the need for better decisions mean it’s time to take BI to the next level. Aberdeen offers ways to make achieving that next level easier.
Companies want more actionable data, and they want more users to have it. But extending the use of business intelligence […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage?
Both established vendors and upstarts now offer BI applications as on-demand services. And more customers are saying yes to faster deployment times, less onerous IT demands and speedier access to reporting data.
Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?
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Finding 1
The BI Learning Curve Has Just Begun
Business intelligence use grows considerably as companies gain experience with this technology. Nearly 90 percent of our respondents use BI, and most others will probably start doing so in the next two years. Still, there are relatively few BI […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Top 5 Ways To Increase BI Value
What are the most effective ways to increase the value your company gets from its business intelligence systems?
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1)Better align our business intelligence systems with our business strategy [50% ]
2)Improve data quality [47% ]
3)Better integrate our business intelligence systems with other systems such as CRM or ERP [41% ]
4)Better understand […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?
Just 26 percent of companies using business intelligence have five or more years’ experience with the technology. Those new to BI should be encouraged by the success of those who’ve gone before.
Overall, business intelligence is an IT success story: Our most recent IT spending survey found that BI […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION
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“We were a very different university about one year ago,” says Keith Werosh, registrar at the National University of Health Sciences (Ill.). He is referring to the operation pre-BI. NUHS installed BI from Business Objects a year ago. “Prior to having this system, we were departmentalized. Information was kept […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Business Intelligence
A new technology can analyze data at amazing speeds. So why is higher ed slow to adopt?
Listen to higher ed futurists and you’ll be convinced that business intelligence is the wave of the future. It is the next “it” thing that will connect every part of the enterprise. Best yet, BI will link […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
What is the Difference Between Querying and Browsing Data?
Search is beginning to gain interest in the business intelligence (BI) space, and several people have begun asking about the difference between querying data (using a traditional database query language) and browsing data using a search tool, and which approach to use when. This blog entry is […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
When is a Data Warehouse Appliance not a Data Warehouse Appliance?
Data warehouse appliances are so-called because they are used for storing and managing the data associated with data warehousing projects. Strictly speaking though these products should be called database appliances, or simply data appliances, because they support only the database processing component of a data […]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin
Is Data Warehousing Essential to Business Intelligence?
The role of data warehousing is changing as companies move toward using new business intelligence approaches.
Over the last few issues of this newsletter, I have been writing about the impact of Enterprise 2.0 approaches on business intelligence (BI). I intended this time to write about how business intelligence […]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin
The Most Successful Business Intelligence Tool
When evaluating, selecting and deploying business intelligence tools, one of the most important steps is to understand which segment of user needs you are trying to fulfill and then match the tool to that segment.
Business intelligence (BI) has become a smorgasbord of user interfaces, with certain modules generating more excitement […]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin
The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary
I have collected and compiled this from a very nice website.Some of the terms are relating to Microsoft’s tool (Microsoft’s Analysis Services ) but that can be generalised to other non-microsoft tools also.
Link >>
Agent
An application that searches the data and sends an alert when a particular pattern is found.
Aggregations
Information […]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin
Life cycle of a DW ( Data Warehouse ) project
After many requests ,I am compiling everything in one page for easy page navigation and easy learning.hope you like it.
1 )Requirement Gathering
Requirements Gathering is started by directly discussing or with JAD sessions (Joint Application Development) with the End users .The help of Business leader or Business […]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by admin
This short Article shows the basic Installation steps in installing OBIEE on your windows PC.
Pre-requisite
Computer with Windows XP (Home Basic) ,RAM 2GB, HDD approx 80 GB
JDK 1.5 installed and JAVA_HOME created.
Download the OBIEE setup from the www.Oracle.OTN.com. After downloading, I recommend to unplug the internet (turn off wireless internet or unplug the LAN wire )from […]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by admin
create JAVA_HOME quickly with following steps on Windows XP (Home Basic)
The goal is to create a new variable called JAVA_HOME in Windows Operating system,so get access to System Properties window and create new variable called ‘JAVA_HOME’ and insert value where your BIN folder of JDK within your system.
more detailed steps as below.
1)Right Click on “computer”
2)Select […]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by admin
Benefits of data warehousing
Some of the benefits that a data warehouse provides are as follows:
A data warehouse provides a common data model for all data of interest, regardless of the data’s source. This makes it easier to report and analyze information than it would be if multiple data models from disparate sources were used to […]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by admin
Repository is a place where data are stored and maintained. A repository can be
a place where data is stored
a place where specifically digital data are stored
a site where eprints are located
a place where multiple databases or files are located for distribution over a network,
a computer location that is directly accessible to the user without […]
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