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Business Intelligence: From Theory to Reality (Part I)

by Shaku Atre July 2003 Business intelligence (BI) decision-support initiatives are costly and difficult. A staggering 60% of all BI projects ultimately fail by curtailing the initial goals. But it needn’t be that way. BI projects are costly because disparate business data must be extracted and merged from a variety of data sources, including online …

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Mike Ferguson

Corporate and E-Business Portals: The Next Generation Workplace

By Mike Ferguson June 2003 Over the last three years the uptake of portal technology has grown dramatically as companies look to integrate information, applications and collaborative tools into a single web based user interface to provide a more personalised workplace inside the browser. During that time we have seen a surge in new start-up …

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Top 10 Questions to Ask/Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Meta Data Repository (Part II)

by David Marco April 2003 6. The Meta Data Repository Is Difficult To AccessA key goal for all meta data repository projects must be to provide open access to the meta data to any and all business and technical users, with minimal to no effort required from them. Many of the earlier meta data repository …

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Top 10 Questions to Ask/Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Meta Data Repository (Part I)

by David Marco March 2003 The key to your company’s prosperity is how well you gather, retain and disseminate knowledge. A meta data repository is the key to gathering, retaining, and disseminating knowledge.Building a meta data repository is critical for accessing, maintaining, and controlling the vital information stored in our business intelligence and operational systems. …

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.NET or J2EE – Choosing the Right Web Services Framework

by John Kneiling December 2002 The Web Services model is quickly becoming the preferred approach to creating, acquiring, and implementing business applications because of its rapid application development characteristics, low cost of entry, and consistency of information exchange. Its XML text-based application interfaces are an evolution of proprietary and platform-dependent predecessors such as CORBA and …

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Designing Successful Mobile Applications

by James Hobart November 2002 As with any emerging technology, we are in a period ofdiscovery with mobilecomputing. Usability plays a major role in this discoveryequation. Bestpractices still apply, but they need to be mapped to a newparadigm – themobile interface. This year many large organizations are deploying mobilesolutions to thefield service workers and attaching …

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Project Sociology: Identifying and Involving the Stakeholders

by Suzanne Robertson September 2002 Project Sociology The major factor that affects the success of a project is having the right people involved in the right subjects at the right time. We recognise the need to identify the project’s stakeholders and to find ways of appropriately involving them throughout the life of the project. The …

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Mike Ferguson

Integrating Business Intelligence into the Enterprise (Part II)

By Mike Ferguson November 2019 BI Web Services The fourth approach to integrating BI into the enterprise is similar to the third except in this case there is loose coupling of BI tools and analytic applications with operational systems whereby integration can be achieved via the introduction of BI web services. Figure 3 shows the …

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