I’ve stumbled upon a nice article on the web those days. Basically this article analyzes the environment of business intelligence providers, classifying them and watching their moves along the market.
The top players are Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and IBM. The article groups very nicely the BI solutions suppliers by using clear attributes of those.
We also can [...]

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Many of you may wonder how you make the big money in BI… It’s very simple: Be HP! They implement over 200k BI solutions every year making billions in revenue and now they want to jump to the next phase of data warehouse. Coming with a huge brand, contracts with the best in the business [...]

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On which should you base your department more? On people or on systems? Should you have a large team that works in XLS or should you have just a hand of guys that work with powerful tools.
Both solutions have their advantages and their disadvantages.
Base your work on people:
-the costs will be very high and the [...]

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The business of business intelligence stands in the data so choosing the right data storage system for your team can be of high importance.
I am a fan of MySql for 2 simple reasons:
-it is free
-you have more programmers that use MySql than any other db system
No, i am not touching in here the hard core [...]

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Let’s say you decide that your report team responds to two major market sectors. Maybe you get the bright idea of spliting your department in two… Think twice…
In the BI field there is a tendency to split out the teams to have a better “organization” structure. This can be the most dangerous thing if it [...]

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This will always be a discussed thread. As a company which solution is better? To build your internal systems strong in house or to buy an already made solution.
The answer lies in the nature of the company. If the company has a dynamic business behind it and it’s always on the change building an internal [...]

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And here we start with a blog about Business Intelligence solutions. I hope this will be an interesting journey for everyone and also i hope that each day i will get to post something new about this domain. In order to start with something i decided to describe a litlle bit this domain.
According to google [...]

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