Data Warehousing, business intelligence & CPM

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..

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 less than positive in ... 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..

This document describes the perils, pitfalls, best practices and business benefits of data center migration.Data Centre Migration: ... read more..

The term 'Information Assurance' in its broadest sense is the process for enabling the right information to be available securely to the right people at the right time for best business advantage. To achieve this business requirement organisations need to: move away from traditional command and control ... read more..

The recession is prompting a growing number of companies to consider the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, leveraging low initial cost and a pay as you go approach to minimise costs and create a highly flexible operation. But how do the cost arguments stack up? In some areas, such as CRM, there ... read more..

During the economic boom, many organisations invested in people, processes and systems without fully appreciating whether they met needs. Arif Ahmed examines how IT departments can achieve better ROI and close the IT efficiency gap. It is a universal truth that technology can improve operational effectiveness, and in recent years many ... read more..

Press Release from The National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. Issued 30th March 2009 Companies are actively embracing data warehousing and business intelligence tools but have mixed views on how well their objectives are being met by the technology. This is according to the National Computing Centres latest survey on the use of ... read more..

Paul Phillips provides some answers to this popular question. Networks have become the backbone of many organisations. In the corporate environment, nearly all business applications are dependant on the strength and reliability of the network they deploy. The demands and complexities of delivering reliability and scalability in the 21st Century are ... read more..

Predicting what lies ahead is always an uncertain art. But in the immediate future one thing is a nailed on certainty; energy prices are set to continue their inexorable rise . . . For many companies this aggravates concerns about exposure to price increases and makes the management of power costs ... read more..

Making better use of information has become a vital capability for organisations in all sectors, providing the foundation for improved decision making, effective yet flexible management control, and the visibility and integrity of business operations. Whilst information technology can support this requirement, it is less important than developing a clear ... read more..