May 2011 Sponsored by WhereScape USA, Inc. Download pdf This paper first explores the issues that plague data warehouse development projects and the most common trades-off made by vendors and developers. One compelling solution, the concept of data driven design is described, and a number of recommendations are provided on how data warehouse design and [...]
May 2010 Sponsored by Attivio, Inc. Download pdf This paper first shows data and content as two ends of a continuum of the same business information asset and explores the depth of integration required for full business value. We then define a unified information store (UIS) architecture as the approach to unification. Businesses that begin [...]
August 2009 Sponsored by Teradata Corporation Download pdf “Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!” The message of this paper is at one with this ancient proclamation: the rule of the king continues through the end of one era and the beginning of the next. The data warehouse has had a long and illustrious reign, [...]
June 2009 Sponsored by Lyzasoft Inc. Download pdf Business analysts are, by tradition, hunter-gatherers. Independently or in small, close-knit groups, they stalk the wild data resources of the business, seeking out new and unusual facts, and building from them deep insights into the meaning of business life and events. Armed with little more than their [...]
April 2009 BI ThoughtLeaderTM by ParAccel Download pdf The majority of companies have implemented their business intelligence (BI) environments according to a physically layered data warehouse architecture and based on traditional general-purpose relational databases. Specialized analytic databases using technologies such as columnar orientation, massively parallel processing and other techniques have now emerged. Such new DBMSs [...]
December 2008 Sponsored by Lyzasoft Inc. Download pdf One key group of potential users of Business Intelligence tools and Data Warehouse data has been seriously underserved for many years. These power business analysts resort to a mish-mash of desktop productivity tools to support them in their search for innovative answers in the ever-growing jungles of [...]
Barry published a number of White Papers for IBM on the emergence of new trends in collaborative computing and of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), with particular emphasis on the implications for how IT will support business in the future. "The evolution of Office Work", Barry Devlin, IBM White Paper Series, (2005-06), Part 1, Part 2, [...]