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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The deception in our case is the accuracy of the data and the return on investment of the data warehouse solution. Too often projects make compromises in the implementation of a business intelligence solution that create…
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The convention over configuration discussion when designing a data warehouse often leads to fanatical discussions by technical people over the ‘best’ approach to do things. Convention can be used to define the standard way to design…
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Wandering around the web I found a presentation by Soren Burkhart of Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC given at the Rails Conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2007) that describes a classic agile approach to developing a Business Intelligence application…
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The agile manifesto and it’s underlying principles set out four key values for developing software solutions: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan If an organisation is…
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Another ETIS presentation from Istanbul in Octovber 2009 This presentation looks at the Return on Investment in Business Intelligence projects Return on Investment is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to…
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ETIS (http://etis.org) is a membership based organisation which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. The mission of ETIS is to enable its members to improve their business performance…
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Every business believes that their data is unique. However the storage and management of that data uses similar methods and technologies across all organisations. As a result the same issues of consistency, performance and quality occur…
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A presentation given to the Oracle Business Intelligence forum for Telcos that discussed how businesses should move from collecting volume of data to using the value of the data. It sets the context about what issues…
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This is the first of a series of papers published by Data Management & Warehousing to look at the implementation of Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions in large organisations using a design pattern approach. A design pattern…
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