Till now 2012, the Year of Dragon as per Chinese calendar has seen many resolutions, predictions, trends, forecasts, reports, priorities for Business Intelligence (BI). But I think report of BI being at the top of IT agenda for 2012 is a big one.
BI and analytics have ousted several other much hyped technologies like cloud computing, [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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Data Quality refers to the degree of excellence exhibited by the data in relation to the portrayal of the actual scenario. Data are of high quality ‘if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning’ (J. M. Juran). Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent [...]

Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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Business today moves at the speed of information. Getting right information into right hands at right time is essential. Business initiatives that have the biggest impact on company’s bottom-line get enabled after Business Intelligence (BI). BI soon becomes IT’s ‘must have’ application.
Single view representation and analysis of enterprise data adds an additional thrust to smart [...]

Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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New generation BI tools like 1KEY BI do not need semantic layer
The semantic layer is a business translation layer that sits between the database and the end user which was the traditional way of generating reports with old aged BI software tools.
A semantic layer will be able to create technically sophisticated SQL and in many [...]

Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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