wayne Eckerson's world
From Data Dumps to Data Wrangling
In the good old days of data warehousing, the information technology (IT) department was king and business analysts were... well... locked out. If business analysts...
One Stop Shopping for Microsoft BI Customers
Buying business intelligence (BI) from Microsoft is a little like buying your child a mail-order bike for Christmas. When you open the box late Christmas...
Dundas Does BI
Dundas Data Visuailzation, Inc. is about to complete its transition from a provider of charting components to a full-stack business intelligence (BI) vendor. Founded in...
SQLstream Bets on the Internet of Things
Stream processing has idled on the backwaters of the analytic market for years. But with the advent of Hadoop and new open source streaming tools,...
Think Entrinsik for Operational BI: It May Be All You Need
Sometimes the best things come in small packages. If you want to create reports and dashboards directly from source data, then you might want to...
Cyberscience: When Your Data Warehouse Does Not Cut It
In the 1980s, before the dawn of data warehousing, companies ran reports and queries directly against operational systems. But this analytical activity undermined the performance...
Logi Analytics Reinvents Visual DIscovery
For many years, Logi Analytics carved out a profitable niche selling an easy-to-use report and dashboard development platform to information technology (IT) professionals. But its...
MetaScale Offers an OnRamp to Hadoop
If you're a big data trailblazer, one way to monetize your risk is to offer your services to those following in your footsteps. This is...
Dimensional Insight: The Best Kept Secret in BI
One of the best, least known business intelligence (BI) vendors is Dimensional Insight. Founded in 1989, the company has done what few BI vendors have...
SnapLogic is Ready for the Future
Data integration is bread-and-butter technology. Never glamorous or sexy, it holds the key to opening data to business users. Until recently, most data was tabular,...
