Data Warehousing, business intelligence & CPM

First-Mover Advantage in Big Data Awaits Asia-Pacific BanksBig data in banking continues to raise more strategy questions than there are technology answers, but it is emerging as a critical cog in the machinery that banks need to put in place in order to compete in the digital economy. First-mover competitive ... read more..

InfoSec Needs Greater Business RelevanceInfoSec must change. Vendors currently spend three days selling themselves at the show, but the needs of business organisations and their users must become the top priority. Rather than delivering a sprawl of disconnected technologies, the show needs to have more of a business and industry ... read more..

Big Data Creates Demand for Analytics SkillsThe emergence of big data promises to create IT jobs, with business intelligence (BI) and analytics expertise the key drivers. As big data increasingly becomes part of corporate IT strategies and infrastructure, organisations will be on the lookout for specialist analytics skills to unlock ... read more..

Bring Your Own SoftwareMuch has been written about the BYOD (bring your own device) problem. Ovum believes the software equivalent of the same challenge is as big a problem and as big an opportunity for corporate IT. The freemium model and the bottom-up entry strategy have produced a few well-publicised ... read more..

NCC Members can ask relevant questions of the wider NCC membership, moderated by NCC. We collate the responses, where appropriate anonymise them, then publish the results on the website for the benefit of the wider Membership. Can you help with this question from a government department?We are currently reviewing our ... read more..

CIO, Tear Down This Wall!A quarter of a century after Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, one of the most famous symbols of division in modern history, the self-imposed wall between business and IT one of the IT industrys most hotly debated problems ... read more..

The Increasing Complexity of Application Integration Calls for New ApproachesOrgansations are deploying a wider range of applications in different deployment models, and often finding that seamless integration is the key for realisation of the true business value of these investments. The traditional approaches to application integration have failed to deliver ... read more..

6 December 2011, NCC Executive briefing - Round Table Dinner Sponsored by: ... read more..

business discovery Sean Farrington, RVP Northern Europe MD UK Ireland at QlikTech, explains how Business Discovery enables organisations to stay ahead of the game. There is a groundswell of change in the world of business intelligence (BI). It may be surprising to many that such a revolution is ... read more..

According to Nobby Akiha, senior vice president at business intelligence (BI) specialist Actuate, for business users to be fully productive they need answers now. And in a world powered by sophisticated analytics tools, theres no excuse for waiting for monthly management reports If there is one theme that sums up ... read more..

7 July 2011, The British Library, London Information governance and the management of data is no longer just the concern of the IT department but has become a key corporate and commercial issue. Never more has it been true to consider information as the lifeblood of the organisation. We ... read more..

7 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (141KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC Managing data in the era of the cloud (5.4MB PDF) Gareth Fraser-King, Head of Global Technical Enablement Symantec and Cloud ... read more..

mobile intelligence Companies whose core business processes rely heavily on mobility are on the increase. In the last 10 years organisations such as those in supply chain, utilities, field service, transport and logistics, retail and healthcare have embraced mobility and the gains in productivity promised by suppliers. However the risk ... read more..

From the National Computing Centre, Manchester UK.Despite 61% of organisations planning to extend their use of data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) software, businesses are still critical of how well the technology is meeting their objectives. This is according to the National Computing Centres latest survey on the use of ... read more..

Secure application development delivers a good return on investment Microsoft has published a case study showing how MidAmerican Energy adopted its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) framework and delivered rapid and dramatic improvements in its IT systems. This included an estimated 20% improvement in project productivity resulting from the reduced ... read more..

SAP advances GRC strategy When Ovum last reported on SAP's governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategy two years ago at the SAP Insider event in Las Vegas, the company still had its work cut out trying to execute on an aggressive roadmap. The roadmap had to pull together its Virsa-sourced ... read more..

Growth and change in the BI market March 2011 Catalyst The business intelligence (BI) software market continues to see rapid growth, driven by enterprises desire to maximize cost savings and identify revenue opportunities across all major industries. Key findings: BI is a growth industry that ... read more..

15 February 2011 Networking Seminar Download the PDF presentation slides: The Business Case For SharePoint 2010 - Ian Woodgate SharePoint 2010Putting together the business case - Stephen Fox In the last three years, the adoption of Microsoft SharePoint as an IT infrastructure platform has been ... read more..

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is the biggest business intelligence (BI) announcement of the year to date, packing in a raft of features and providing best-of-breed tool alignment. Some of the main enhancements are focused on plugging previous functional gaps, notably greater report and dashboard interactivity courtesy of: ... read more..

In this issue: BPM for the Agile organization Moving from recession to recovery with business intelligence Turning data into intelligence in the public sector Glued on security doesnt work Business agility ... read more..

data centre management Alot has been written on the developments and trends in the data centre, particularly around virtualisation and Cloud Computing, green IT and the potential new market for service providers that will grow out of these new technologies and the need for associated advisory services. With the projected ... read more..

information management Tim Cianchi, Business Unit Leader at Zuhlke, looks at the impact metadata management has on business IT systems and considers how organisations can approach systems and information in a way that both addresses general business efficiency and integration requirements. For as long as organisations have been recording ... read more..

18th March 2010 Download the presentations Data Warehousing and BI - Cliff Mills Research Data Warehousing and BI - John Donoghue Expert View The use of data warehousing and business intelligence has been gathering pace but businesses are ... read more..

Interest and deployment of SharePoint keeps on growing this trend will continue with the recent announcement of SharePoint 2010. The latest version of this versatile collaboration tool delivers a more robust and feature rich solution set, but is SharePoint 2010 right for you? We are running a series of ... read more..

We are operating in a relentlessly changing business environment, with uncertainty fast becoming one of the only constants on which senior management can rely. Globalisation, market consolidation, ongoing technological advancements and heightened customer expectations, as well as increased regulation exacerbated by the fall out of the financial crisis, are all ... read more..

tomorrow's technology todayGary Cornell and his views from across the pondI was recently talking to a friend who runs a small company. He told me he was thinking of ditching their use of Gmail for their corporate email because of the recent Gmail outages and return to them doing it ... read more..

Not too long ago, the only people who cared about metadata were geeks like me. IT and business users didnt think about how data was organised, where it was located, or how pieces of information were related; they simply wanted reports. And for that, information analysts were the go-to people ... read more..

The data centre continues to evolve with the need for storage capacity growing so quickly that many organisations struggle to keep up. Even before the global economy took a nosedive, organisations were starting to look for the best way to re-utilise their pre-existing storage capabilities. But now, with the increasing ... read more..

There is an urgent clash of priorities facing the UK when it comes to IT infrastructure We all understand the importance of ICT in a knowledge-based economy. The need for better, bigger, more sophisticated ICT will only continue to increase as Britain strives to compete as a world leader. ICT ... read more..

Businesses today face more data security threats than ever before.The threat landscape is constantly evolving to the point that as soon as a new security measure is put in place, that measure will likely be breached or become redundant in the face of a new threat. Security aims to stay ... read more..