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Cognos BI
Cognos BIThe Cognos BI portal is addressed to both business and technical users. Cognos BI Info provides technical cognos tutorials and FAQs as well as business guides for end-users. It...
Business Intelligence dashboard
Business Intelligence dashboardThe Business Intelligence Dashboards portal provdes a number of articles covering various aspects of Management Cockpits, Metrics, KPIs, visualizations and balanced scorecards. It...
Data warehousing articles
Data warehousing articlesThis knowledge base provides an overview of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence topics with articles covering Data Integration, data migration and quality management,...
ETL Tools comparison
ETL Tools comparisonCommercial and open source ETL and data warehousing Tools comparison provides main advantages and disadvantages of the most popular data integration and ETL software on the...
ETL Tools
ETL ToolsThe Enterprise Information Management and Data integration portal provides information on ETL Tools and desribes each phase of the ETL Process. There are many articles on Data...

Data warehousing with MySQL and InfoBright
Data warehousing with MySQL and InfoBrightThe article gives a good background on the business intelligence and data warehousing market and indicates how open source solutions is revolutionizing it. It analyzes the...
MySQL DataWarehousing features
MySQL DataWarehousing featuresThe article shows an overview of the MySQL 5.0 Data Warehousing Features, including bulk imports and exports, reporting features, mass storage, stored procedures and licensing....
Recommended books on business intelligence
Recommended books on business intelligenceThe kJube webpage provides a thoroughly selected list of recommended books on business intelligence related subjects. It is organized into the following sections: Business...
Data Integration Solutions for Master Data Management
Data Integration Solutions for Master Data ManagementThe tutorial article illustrates how to address the data integration issues of Master Data Management (MDM) using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS). The...
Who is Who in Open Source Business Intelligence
Who is Who in Open Source Business IntelligenceFree downloadable copy of Gartner research about OSBI (Open Source Business Intelligence) market. The article provides key findings and thorough analysis of the OSBI market and...
Active Data Warehousing
Active Data WarehousingThe article outlines Active Data Warehousing which is an opposite approach to the traditional population of the data warehouse using off-line ETL processes. The concept of...
Microsoft Excel 2007 Business Intelligence
Microsoft Excel 2007 Business IntelligenceMicrosoft introduced a strong business intelligence support with Office 2007. The SharePoint Server 2007 along with the Excel Services extend the capabilities of Excel 2007 by...
Business and Technical metadata
Business and Technical metadataThe datawarehouse article about metadata which analyses the use and importance of metadata management in an organization. It outlines the two types of datawarehouse metadata - the...
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Emerging Businesses
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Emerging BusinessesLearn how Hyperion surveyed 163 companies to understand BI and EPM requirements, evaluation processes, and extent of adoption. Hyperions 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance...
Data Quality Through Metadata
Data Quality Through MetadataThe Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata article elaborates on the importance of the data quality in a data warehouse environment. It outlines the role of proper...
Enterprise open source for business
Enterprise open source for businessThe main goal of the article is to find the most appropriate model of enterprise Open Source which would be stable, reliable and cost effective. The article reveals pros and cons...
Ab Initio Evaluation
Ab Initio EvaluationThe author of this article focuses on the approach Ab Initio represent on the marketing of their products and solutions. It contains some high level comparisons between Ab Initio...
Teradata EDW - Enterprise Data Warehouse
Teradata EDW - Enterprise Data WarehouseVendors information on the robust Teradata enterprise business intelligence framework. It provides high level information on the new features of the latest version, such as...
Ab Initio ETL solutions
Ab Initio ETL solutionsAbInitio vendor pages with a brief overview of the most significant use of Ab Initio solutions. It shows the use of AbInitio in the financial sector (credit card transactions),...
Ab Initio wiki
Ab Initio wikiBasic information on Ab Initio ETL tool with an oveview of the AbInitio environment. The article provides basic information on the Co>Operating System, the component library,...
Ab Initio and Data Warehousing
Ab Initio and Data WarehousingAn interesting article about implementing Ab Initio into a datawarehouse environment. It outlines advantages of AbInitio as a robust and high productivity environment where...
Ab Initio Design Principles
Ab Initio Design PrinciplesAb Initio Design Principles article focuses mainly on design standards and best practices when creating Ab Initio graphs. It points out the guidelines to create visionally...
Oracle 9i Business Intelligence
Oracle 9i Business IntelligenceThe article contains an overview of Oracle9 i Integrated Business Intelligence. It elaborates on how to put data into the Oracle database, turn that data into information, share...
Hyperion Interview
Hyperion InterviewAn interview with John Brkopac - the technical director of Hyperion Solutions who answers questions regarding Hyperion's Essbase and Enterprise Analytics businesses. The article...
Hyperion acquisition by Oracle
Hyperion acquisition by OracleThe article uncovers the details of a multibillion-dollar deal between Oracle and Hyperion and illustrates the impact of that transaction to the PeopleSoft and Siebel acquisitions...
Data warehouse vs OLTP database
Data warehouse vs OLTP databaseThis tutorial guides users through the differences between a Data Warehouse database and OLTP database. The article lists major goals that each of the two databases try to meet....
Aspects of a DW architecture
Aspects of a DW architectureThe guide lists the different aspects of a data warehouse architecture. It takes into consideration data consistency, reporting data store and data modeling architecture. The...
Information Week (Intelligent Enterprise)
Information Week (Intelligent Enterprise)Intelligent Enterprise is the online authority for business intelligence, enterprise applications, information management, performance management and process management news and...
Best Practices for Business Intelligence Tool Selection
Best Practices for Business Intelligence Tool SelectionThe Business Intelligence Tool Selection best practices article outlines the most significant tasks in the selection of BI strategy. This article outlines a streamlined process...
Oracle buys Hyperion
Oracle buys HyperionAn article about the purchase of Hyperion by Oracle (the world's third-largest software company) and the impact of that transaction on the performance of Oracle...
Data mining techniques
Data mining techniquesThe data mining techniques article contains information about the main concepts of Data Mining, the data mining concepts, concepts of bagging, voting, boosting, building models...
DataWarehousing.com
DataWarehousing.comDataWarehousing.com contains new and innovative stories and users experiences in the data warehousing area. The portal contains a data warehousing forum, events section and tech...
Building the Customer Data Warehouse
Building the Customer Data Warehouse The Foundation for CRM Efforts: Building the Customer Data Warehouse. The article enumerates ten ways to implement a customer data warehouse efficiently. It covers topics like...
Microsoft and Teradata Solutions
Microsoft and Teradata SolutionsInformation page on combined Microsoft and Teradata Business Intelligence solutions. The page includes latest Teradata release features, a video on how enterprise data warehousing...
Business Intelligence Articles
Business Intelligence ArticlesA Business Intelligence resource portal with many interesting articles, white papers, research results and industry news. Users can find information about all BI technologies on...
Teradata Magazine
Teradata MagazineTeradata magazine online. The magazine is a good source of information for the future of Teradata data warehousing, contains latest news, technical articles, viewpoints and case...
ETL Wiki
ETL WikiWikipedia information about ETL process. The information page contains an overiview of the ETL elements (extract, transform, load), challenges, tools, references and external...
SAP Business Intelligence directory
SAP Business Intelligence directoryThe SAP Business Intelligence section is divided into three types of information: White papers - efficient replication of SAP Business Objects, mySAP ERP statement of direction,...
SAP BW on Big4Guy.com
SAP BW on Big4Guy.comThoughts, Observations and Musings on SAP BW. The page contains a couple of articles containing news, insights, knowledge and experiences using SAP Business Information Warehouse....
SAP BW Learning Guide
SAP BW Learning GuideSAP BW Learning Guide explains how centered around a data warehouse and optimized for SAP R/3 environment and what are the benefits of using SAP BW - providing expert advice,...
SAP - Business Warehouse (BW)
SAP - Business Warehouse (BW)SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) information page with a quick overview and basics of BW, links to online documentation, BW articles, BW trainings, lesson and a set of recommended...
Automating ETL using Oracle warehouse Builder
Automating ETL using Oracle warehouse BuilderThree articles by Nandeep Nagarkar which put emphasis on automating ETL using Oracle warehouse Builder. Including OWB overview, components and OWB architecture. The articles cover...
Moving to Datastage 8
Moving to Datastage 8The article describes what issues need to be considered when moving to DataStage 8 and indicates useful resources to start learning about IBM Information...
Rittman Mead Consulting Blog
Rittman Mead Consulting BlogRittman Mead Consulting are delivery specialists for Oracle business intelligence and data warehousing projects. Founded by Mark Rittman and Jon Mead, two veterans of the Oracle...
BI Best Practices
BI Best PracticesBusiness Intelligence Best Practices is a collaborative and interactive forum for the business intelligence and data warehousing community to support and foster growth within the...
The Data Warehousing Institute
The Data Warehousing InstituteTDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) provides education, training, certification, news, and research for executives and information technology (IT) professionals worldwide and it...
Bitpipe research guide
Bitpipe research guideBITPIPE research guide about Business Intelligence with free detailed reports on Business Intelligence Software. Contains vendor reports on BI applications, White Papers, product...
BI Tools Selection
BI Tools SelectionThe Business Intelligence selection tools section lists the different types of BI tools and the selection criteria for each. Articles are divided into the following logical...
DW Architecture
DW ArchitectureData Warehouse architecture and concepts explained with examples. The site contains comparisons between different DW designs (Star, Snowflake and Fact Constellation schema) and...
Informatica Developer Network
Informatica Developer NetworkThe Informatica Developer Network (IDN) is a program designed to help software developers expand the business value of Informatica's data integration platform and data quality...