RickSherman

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Business Intelligence (BI) Industry Jargon

When teaching people about business intelligence (BI), data integration and data warehousing,…

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TDWI Boston Chapter Meeting – January 14: Maintaining Security, Privacy, and Accountability in DW/BI Implementations

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming TDWI Boston Chapter meeting.…

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The Business Intelligence director’s 2009 letter to Santa

(As seen on SearchDataManagement.com)I've written letters to Santa before requesting gifts that…

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New Age Data Warehousing

Data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) have been evolving and getting…

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Upgrading your data integration efforts to enable Business Intelligence (BI) 2.0

People have been using the term “business intelligence 2.0” for a few…

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Data warehouse architecture that’s too narrowly focused

In my DM Review columns, “The Accidental Architecture” and “Recovering from the…

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Start a Dialogue about Master Data Management

Just mentioning master data management (MDM) will cause businesspeople’s eyes to glaze…

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It’s Just a Little More Disk Space

Recently I bought a Maxtor OneTouch™ 1TB backup drive for my son’s…

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Focus, Simplicity and Service

The Boston Globe had an interesting article in its Sunday November 2,…

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It’s Not the Tool, but How it is Used

A research note from the 451 Group “Open source is not a…

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