Month: January 2011

An Interview with Market Research Expert, Annie Pettit

   This is my second interview of many to come with market…

Editor SDC
19 Min Read

With PMML, interoperability is truly attainable

Developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG), an independent, vendor led committee,…

MichaelZeller
4 Min Read

Teradata Tops the Chart, Again

By now, everyone knows that Teradata’s ‘secret sauce’ is the massively parallel…

DarrylMcDonald
2 Min Read

Software vendors, tear down this wall!

Historians say that Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”…

Editor SDC
2 Min Read

BI: It’s All in Your Head (or Somebody Else’s)

Mike Tarallo at Pentaho says that real Business Intelligence is not about…

DougLautzenheiser
3 Min Read

Because It’s Friday: The Scale of the Universe

Some things in the universe -- quarks, for example -- are very…

DavidMSmith
1 Min Read

Top 10 Business Intelligence predictions for 2011

Are you ok?  Perhaps you should sit down.  The Business Intelligence (BI)…

Yellowfin
8 Min Read

The “decline effect,” random variation, and evidence-based marketing

There’s an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer in the Dec. 13 issue…

DavidBakken
7 Min Read

Predictive Analytics, Business Rules and Enhanced Decisioning

Business Rules are ubiquitous today. They manage the day to day operations…

MichaelZeller
2 Min Read

My take on why ETL has not always kept up with the integration workload

Why are companies reaching the limits on the workhouse ETL? Here are…

RickSherman
4 Min Read