Taking Informed Decisions

Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice as per Wikipedia. Everyone, May it be an individual, a family, a [...]

Why Business Intelligence?

It seems to me that in the current environment the reasoning for the use of intelligence is getting lost.
Intelligence is a means to an end and that the construction of intelligence needs to bear this in mind. In real terms this means it must deliver on the usual key business criteria..

Profit
Revenue Generation
Cost Reduction

And aid the [...]

Data Federation Technology – Pros and Cons

Data federation is a category of data integration technology that provides the ability to query and aggregate data from disparate sources in a virtual database so it can be used by business intelligence, reporting, or analysis applications. The virtual database created by data federation technology doesn’t contain the data itself. Instead, it contains [...]