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The Economic Downturn: why Performance Management is Key to come out stronger

Introduction There is no escaping the harsh reality of the current economic climate. The crisis in the financial industry has lead to a worldwide recession or even depression and most macro-economists seem to agree that this will not end until 2010...

Toon Puissant

Mercredi 22 avril 2009

Data Governance defined & why it is crucial to the organisation

According to The Data Governance Institute, Data Governance is "The organizational bodies, rules, decision rights, and accountabilities of people and information systems as they perform information-related processes”.

Christophe Cabrera

Mercredi 15 avril 2009

BI Projects or BICC : Building the Dream Team

Introduction A Business Intelligence initiative may fail for many reasons: wrong technology, lack of sponsorship, poor data quality but one of the main reasons remains an incorrect project team. Too often the technology is seen as the unique...

Christophe Cabrera

Mardi 10 février 2009

Getting the most out of your Informatica PowerCenter 8 Environment

Informatica Informatica is an independent company providing data-integration software and services. Founded in 1993, Informatica employs more then 1.400 employees and has more than 3.000 customers worldwide, including 91 of the Fortune 100 companies...

Tom Graft

Vendredi 6 février 2009

Data quality screening : an inside-out approach to improving data quality

Introduction Data quality is an often underestimated topic within data warehouse & business intelligence solutions. Most companies are content in their belief that their data is good enough, although they have no factual basis for that belief...

Werner Engelen

Mercredi 7 janvier 2009

Do's and Dont's of Implementing a Scorecard

Scorecarding, a powerful management instrument Introduction Scorecards are a very powerful management instrument. They are at the heart of a Performance Management architecture and they display some well-chosen metrics, including targets and their...

Kris Bouckaert

Vendredi 14 novembre 2008

Best Practices in Modelling IBM Cognos 8 Semantic Layers

In October 2008, we published the below Insight " Best Practices in Modelling IBM Cognos 8 Semantic Layers " on our website. Since then, this page has become the most visited page on our website, with over 50.000 pageviews since publication, clearly...

Tom Graft

Lundi 13 octobre 2008

Open Source Extraction, Transformation & Loading software: ready for mainstage ?

Extraction, Transformation & Loading : often expensive ! ETL or the art of extracting, transforming and loading data is a key process in developing and maintaining a data warehouse, the foundation for sound Performance Management. It can however...

Jan Claes

Jeudi 2 octobre 2008

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 as front-end to SQL Server 2005

Introduction Over the past years, Microsoft has been building –slowly but certainly- its Business Intelligence & Performance Management vision & product stack. Despite Microsoft's roots and its reputation for building user friendly end...

Mathias Leupe

Lundi 25 août 2008

Independent BI vendors in a consolidated market: the case of Microstrategy

Introduction In the last decade the business intelligence market has been relatively fragmented with a lot of different vendors offering open solutions, which were designed to operate with a large variety of different databases, data-sources (ERP,...

Jelle Daems

Mercredi 6 août 2008