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Business Intelligence: Converging Trends Mean Rapid Change for BI Sector

By Dick Weisinger

In a post last week we saw that Business Intelligence is becoming easier.   Easy-to-Use consumer-style interfaces are putting sophisticated data analysis tools into the hands of a greater range of users.  Tools that once required extensive support in order…

Open Source: When Data Management is Rocket Science

By Dick Weisinger

NASA has recently contributed their Object-Oriented Data Technology (OODT) to the Apache group, and the technology has been promoted to a Top-Level Project (TLP) at Apache.  As a TLP, OODT will receive project management and resource support from the the…

Enterprise Search: A Restricted Open Source Search Option Emerges

By Dick Weisinger

Lucene and Lucene Solr are well-known Open Source developer tools that are widely embedded in many products.   Both tools are created by the company Lucid Imagaingation.  Lucid Imagination has now announced a new product called LucidWorks Enterprise that is…

Open Data: Good Progress, But More Work is Needed

By Dick Weisinger

One year ago President Obama challenged government agencies to become more transparent and make publicly available data which the government had collected.   On January 21, 2009, President Obama said: “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of…

Storage: Outlook for 2011

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations continue to generate ever more structured and unstructured data, the management of storage for that data is becoming increasingly important.  Storage has been transformed from being a boring conversation about tapes and disk drives to a hot topic…