Curt Hall
Senior Consultant

Curt Hall is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Intelligence practice and author of its survey-based Executive Updates. Mr. Hall's expertise includes BI, data warehousing, data mining, and other analytical technologies and products. More...

21 May 2008- 11:55 AM

Software-Plus-Service: Best or Worst of Both Worlds?

I’ve been thinking about the software-plus-service model, where a vendor offers online (hosted) software components that integrate with the vendor’s software installed onsite at the end-user organization (i.e., the customer). Microsoft is pushing this approach in response to on-demand offerings from Google and other providers. More recently, SAP AG has jumped […]

11 March 2008- 06:51 AM

Is a Data Warehouse Essential for Business Performance Management?

The majority of organizations that have implemented or are planning to implement business performance management solutions rely on a data warehouse to support the data integration requirements of their performance management initiatives. This finding comes from a Cutter Consortium survey conducted in January 2008 of 101 end-user organizations based worldwide. The survey was designed to […]

30 July 2007- 02:03 PM

Enterprise 2.0: Openness vs. Security

I read a lot about Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0–about how companies need to fully embrace the concept of “openness.” And I agree that Enterprise 2.0 offers companies an innovative way to foster significantly better collaboration. But the truth of the matter is that a lot more control is needed in the business/Enterprise 2.0 world (compared to […]

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