Techniques – Data Management & Warehousing

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BI SaaS & Cloud Strategies for Telcos

An ETIS presentation from Brussels in March 2013 This presentation looks at what SaaS and Cloud mean for BI and analytics in Telcos. Read more in the presentation … Download BI SaaS & Cloud Strategies for Telcos now

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It’s time for Slow Business Intelligence

I have been aware for a few months of the Slow Web Movement, which, like other parts of the slow movement, advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life’s pace. More specifically it is about getting…

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OS X Mountain Lion Tips

This brief blog post is a summary of the various things we have found on the upgrades of our Apple Mac infrastructure. It is primarily intended for internal use however it may prove useful to others.…

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Our Toolbox – Essential Software

A data warehouse project will usually involve many pieces of software. These can be broken into two categories – architectural software and supporting tools. The architectural software will include the database, ETL tool, reporting tools, etc.…

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Installing R and RStudio on Redhat/CentOS Linux

As part of our forthcoming magazine article “Building an Analytical Platform” for SAP we described the need to install both R and RStudio. Our test system is an older CentOs 5.8 Linux box and so needs…

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Creating Graphics for BI Reports in Ruby on Rails

So your manager wants reports with sexy graphs – what are your options and what are the pros and cons I have found eight usable packages with different considerations OpenFlashChart This is a series of libraries…

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Project Services HowTo

Objective Project Services is an integration of software and doman knowledge. Data Management & Warehousing has an approach to building data warehouses. This approach includes a number of templates and white papers including approaches to architecture,…

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BG Info

Microsoft BGInfo (formally SysInternals) One of the most commonly used utilities on Windows platforms is BG Info. It creates a replacement screen background with key information about the system configuration. BG Info provides a simple interface to…

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Project Services

Welcome to Project Services In the Data Management & Warehousing White Paper Data Warehouse Governance the importance of change control and issue tracking to a successful data warehousing project are highlighted. This paper also highlights the importance of…

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Installing CVS on Windows

Installing CVS on Windows To access and work with the the CVS repositories you must install a CVS client on your Windows PC that can talk to the CVS servers. There are scores of CVS clients…