The warehouse has gone missing – damn!
We will shortly be publishing my latest opus on data warehousing or, rather, on analytic warehousing. More about that when the time comes. But, of course, there's always stuff that you discover...
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
Claiming Information Governance
I have just received an email from CA that, amongst other things, includes details of a press release announcing a partnership between CA and Acxiom to deliver a cloud-based information governance...
The optimal warehouse
Suppose you wanted the best possible combination of features to provide ultimate performance in data warehousing? Actually, you probably do. What would this look like? Well, to begin with you...
The future of data mining
IBM's recent announcement that it is to acquire SPSS not only has implications in terms of the completeness of IBM's analytics offering but it also has ramifications for the future of data mining...
Surfing to a warehouse near you
The big news at TDWI this week was the announcement of Netezza TwinFin. Surfers amongst you will know that a twinfin is a surf board with twin fins at the back: they are supposed to be extremely...
Vertica turns up performance
At TDWI this week, Vertica has announced version 3.5 of its eponymous product. This has two major features: FlexStore and MapReduce. Both of these merit discussion. Vertica is column-based....
Who owns the data?
Before attempting to answer this question I'll say why it is important: it's important because if you don't know who owns data then you don't know who is responsible for it and you don't know who...
Accessibility Conferences
There is a constant stream of accessibility and disability related conferences it seems to me to be useful to have a blog listing these.
GRC is not enough
The problem with GRC (governance, risk and compliance) is that it's not a three-way issue. At minimum, there are four or five different forms of governance, two types of compliance and seven...
Oracle buys GoldenGate
Oracle has today announced that it is to acquire GoldenGate Software. Somewhat surprisingly, many of the people that I have mentioned GoldenGate to in the past, both users and vendors, have never...