With PMML, interoperability is truly attainable
Developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG), an independent, vendor led committee, PMML provides an open standard for representing data…
Teradata Tops the Chart, Again
By now, everyone knows that Teradata’s ‘secret sauce’ is the massively parallel processing of the Teradata database. It’s that advantage…
Software vendors, tear down this wall!
Historians say that Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” "speech at Brandenburg Gate catalyzed the end of…
BI: It’s All in Your Head (or Somebody Else’s)
Mike Tarallo at Pentaho says that real Business Intelligence is not about software; it is about people:
Because It’s Friday: The Scale of the Universe
Some things in the universe -- quarks, for example -- are very small. Other things, like galaxies, are very large.…
Top 10 Business Intelligence predictions for 2011
Are you ok? Perhaps you should sit down. The Business Intelligence (BI) industry developed at a frenetic take-your-breath-away pace during…
The “decline effect,” random variation, and evidence-based marketing
There’s an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer in the Dec.
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 some thoughts that occurred to me as I…