Business Intelligence

Advice and opinion about the strategies, technologies and products that allow you to turn your enterprise data and knowledge into a powerful strategic weapon. Topics range from master data management strategies to CRM solutions.

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 […]

18 June 2007- 10:45 AM

RIA security concerns when using Google Web Toolkit

Last week’s webinar “Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications” discussed the characteristics of various development approaches for building new-style, “live look-and-feel” web apps using Ajax, Flex or Google Web Toolkit (GWT). In particular we discussed how GWT alone among these alternatives provides a “single system image” to the developer, allowing him or her to […]