Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them with a cube through which they can explore data.

Silicon Valley startup Kyvos Insights today emerged from stealth mode, trumpeting a new way for ordinary business users to conduct Big Data analytics. Adding a slight twist to the dozens of similar ...

While Hadoop has had the potential to transform the way data warehouses are deployed for quite some time, IT organizations still wind up moving data from Hadoop into a traditional data warehouse, ...

Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

Pablo will ship with A La Carte, a solution that will add a host of new rich features to Microsoft Excel and allow users to adopt the widespread product as their standard business intelligence (BI) ...

I have a .NET application (in C#) that does some stuff and in particular loads data into a SQL Server 2005 database (into tables).<BR><BR>I'd like to automate the building of an OLAP cube based on ...