Learn how to begin a data warehouse project and why creating a data model is an important step.

Last week, Bill Gates gave what was billed as his last keynote as a full-time Microsoft employee at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He chose not to do a maudlin look backwards at all that he has done since 1975 but rather to look forward to his last day at Microsoft and his predictions of where the tech industry will be in the next decade. It was both a very funny and very poignant keynote...

Learn a definition of high quality information, and find out what it means for overall data quality.

For my last blog of the year, I want to wish each of you Happy New Year! The year, 2008, promises to be as good a year for Business Intelligence as 20007 was...

Learn the advantages of data mining in the healthcare industry, according to our analytics expert, William McKnight.

A few minutes ago I got the news that IBM had just bought Cognos. There has been so much speculation about this purchase after Hyperion and Business Objects were bought that it almost was anti-climatic. What does this mean for BI? Well, I have a few thoughts...

Should you develop a custom corporate performance management system or purchase CPM software? Rick Sherman offers expert advice on evaluating and choosing the right approach.

Working as a data architect at a consultancy or System Integrator can be challenging, but has benefits. Find out the career value of working at a System Integrator, as advised by William McKnight.

The oldest "new" company goes public today. Yes, Teradata, a Division of NCR, is no longer. It is now Teradata Corporation, a fully independent company with the NYSE symbol of TDC. Let's look at the stats of this born-again Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing company.