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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 […]

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.

by James Hobart February 2003 Design guidelines have been used, with some success, to capture design knowledge and help make the best decisions when creating user interfaces. We have long been a fan of this approach and have provided the software industry with a very robust set of design guidelines integrated into a web-based knowledge

by Colin White January 2003 Business intelligence and data warehousing systems were once considered nice to have, but they are now so essential to business success that many companies cannot manage their business effectively with them. These systems are no longer standalone and separate from operational processing — they are becoming more and more integrated

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

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

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

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

By Mike Ferguson June 2002 It is fair to say that in many organisations today, the business intelligence (BI) systems have taken root and been in production for some time. These systems may have been built in-house, purchased as one or more packaged analytic applications or comprise a combination of both in-house built and packaged

by Colin White May 2002 Portal directory entries are typically organized by subject area, where each subject is related to a specific business topic or concept. The business taxonomy that defines this subject area structure is developed during the portal design process, and is one of the most important elements of portal development and ongoing