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’ ...

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.

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) ...

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) ...

When we try to extract information from a stack of data, we need tools to help us find what’s relevant and what’s important and to explore different scenarios. A report, whether printed on paper or ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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 ...