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Business Intelligence: Assisted by Enterprise Search for Unified Information Access

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI) is increasingly being used by businesses for synthesizing data culled from many company databases to create reports and dashboards that can identify patterns and trends.  BI has had its share of success, but it sometimes isn’t able

Cloud Computing: Dissecting the Components of Business Intelligence in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

To understand anything better, a good idea is to break the concept down into smaller components.  And Cloud Computing is one area that a lot of people really would like to understand better.  The Gartner Group has tried to do

IT Spending: Despite Euro Woes IT Spending Picks Up

By Dick Weisinger

2010 hasn’t been a good year for the economies of Europe.  The Euro is down by as much as 25 percent from year ago values.  But despite those troubles, IT spending looks as if it will be on the upbound

Business Intelligence: Trending Towards Convergence with New Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Science and technology have a long history of exchanging concepts, with cross-over ideas sometimes revolutionizing our ways of thinking about something.  The speed that cross-pollination of ideas between disciplines seems to be increasing.  For example, both Gartner and HP recently

Business Intelligence: Going Back to Basic Principles

By Dick Weisinger

The promise of Business Intelligence (BI) is to enable organisations to make better and quicker business decisions by exposing the key metrics that drive the organisation.  BI is able to reach across all information sources within the organization, including data