03.21.08

Gartner’s Nine “Key Cost-Cutting Tactics in Data Management and Integration.”

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Gartner at 11:43 am by irusgroup

To cope with a tightening economic environment, businesses should prepare now for cutting IT costs, and the data management discipline is one area that affords numerous opportunities for reducing and controlling costs, according to Gartner, Inc.

“When aiming to optimize costs in data management and integration initiatives, it is critical to know what steps to take and where significant savings can be realized while maintaining success in these projects,” said Ted Friedman, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “In most cases, the cost of implementing the steps will be far outweighed by the savings that can be realized.”

Gartner identified nine key areas in which CIOs can significantly reduce costs during 2008 as they continue to support data management and integration-related initiatives:

  • Perform Operational Database
  • Optimize Data Integration Tools Licensing
  • Leverage Established Data Structures and Data Integration Process
  • Perform Data Mart Consolidation
  • Enforce Standards to Foster Reuse and Agility
  • Defer Replacement of Custom-Coded Architectures
  • Explore Open Source Licensing
  • Renegotiate Services Contracts
  • Defer Low-Priority/Limited Benefit Projects

Gartner analysts will further discuss data management and integration issues at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit being held April 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

03.13.08

Great Oracle BI Content in Federal Computer Week

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI) at 1:04 pm by irusgroup

The Irus Group has implemented Oracle business intelligence technology at Federal Government agencies including the Navy, Army, Air Force and Peace Corps. Oracle has a nice microsite inside Federal Computer Week. Articles include Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Suite for Public Administrations: The Path to Strengthening Citizen Confidence, Oracle Solutions for Public Sector, and Drowning in Data: Find the Answers with Enterprise Business Intelligence for the Public Sector. Great articles to get a sense of what Oracle is doing today for the Government in the area of business intelligence.

03.05.08

MDM Summit in April

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Events at 1:22 pm by irusgroup

March 30 – April 1, 2008

This is always an interesting event.

The MDM Institute, DM Review and BI Review are pleased to present the Spring MDM Summit, March 30 – April 1, 2008 at the Hilton San Francisco in San Francisco, California (formerly the CDI-MDM Summit). Hear the latest topics from the leading analyst authorities, seasoned veterans, and visionary vendors in the hot topics of CDI, MDM and data governance. New features for Spring 2008 include:
• Extended Concurrent Session Times (1 hour minimum)
• New PIM Data Hub Track
• Even More Real-Life Case Studies & Networking Opportunities
• MDM Professional Compensation Survey Findings
• … And much more!
Click here to register.

03.04.08

Gartner report on how emerging technologies will affect BI platforms

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI) at 2:48 pm by irusgroup

Much of the innovation in the business intelligence platform market will come from emerging technologies like visualization, in-memory analytics, search, software as a service and service-oriented architecture/Web 2.0. Click here to download Gartner Research Director Kurt Schlegel’s research note “Emerging Technologies Could Prove Disruptive to the Business Intelligence Platform Market.” Schlegel will be one of the analysts on hand at the upcoming Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, April 1-3 in Chicago, IL.

Bridge the Data Warehouse and SOA to Get BI Value

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI) at 11:45 am by irusgroup

We’ve done business intelligence and ERP projects in the past around IBM systems. An article published today by IBM’s Sherman Hammack in DM Review hits nicely on our views of how many organizations stand to benefit from some degree of enterprise integration at the business process, application and data levels. However, there are conflicts between the inherent goals of data warehouses and service-oriented architectures that need to be addressed to gain true business intelligence from the systems.

Hammack discusses three methods that have been proposed by practitioners for reconciling SOA with BI: service contracts for BI, service-oriented business intelligence (SoBI), and event-driven architecture (EDA).