Month: January 2011

With PMML, interoperability is truly attainable

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

MichaelZeller MichaelZeller 4 Min Read

Teradata Tops the Chart, Again

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

DarrylMcDonald 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 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 DougLautzenheiser 3 Min Read

Because It’s Friday: The Scale of the Universe

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

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

Top 10 Business Intelligence predictions for 2011

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

Yellowfin Yellowfin 8 Min Read

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

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

DavidBakken DavidBakken 7 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 RickSherman 4 Min Read