Twelve Costs of Embedded Reports and Analytics in Business Applications

Mar 23, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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In today's data-driven economy, organizations often compete on the data and insights they provide customers. To succeed as data suppliers, these organizations-including software makers and commercial enterprises in any industry-embed business intelligence (Bl) and analytics functionality in their...

Data for Everyone? Self-service Data Integration

Mar 21, 2016 by Julie Hunt in Knocking Down Silos

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Self-service data integration is an important aspect of Modern Data Integration. But self-service data integration still has a long road to travel before data can be accessed by “everyone”. Questions remain: should everyone have access to self-service data integration? What does it take to...

Why Your Message Strategy is So Important

Mar 17, 2016 by Lawson Abinanti in Positioning That Matters

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A solid message strategy makes it easier to deliver the same message across all marketing efforts, which is the key to claiming a position. This blog explains what a message strategy is, why it is important. It includes examples of positioning statements and support points,the two components of a...

Data Warehouse...Done: Automatic For and By the Business.

Mar 11, 2016 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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Building and maintaining data warehouses have long challenged organizations, both large and small. These difficulties have often delayed or destroyed much needed implementations, especially in small and medium enterprises. Data warehouse automation—systems and methods—promise to ease these...

Automating Data Preparation in a Digitalized World, Part 1

Mar 10, 2016 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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In an era of ever increasing volumes of ever dirtier data, the old concepts of data warehouses and ETL offer important lessons, but must be extended far beyond their current meanings. Data warehouse automation (DWA) offers new insights and directions, but like ETL, its name belies  its true...