Archives for September, 2008
by Andy Bitterer | September 25, 2008 | Comments Off
With yesterday’s announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Appliance, Oracle essentially became a hardware vendor… well, sort of. With the help of their friends across Highway 101, Oracle leverages HP hardware, apparently servers and storage, Infiniband, its own 11g DBMS plus ASM and wraps it into a massively parallel database grid. So far so good. [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Current Events Market Politics Vendors Tags: appliance, data warehouse, database, DBMS, Exadata, HP, Oracle
by Andy Bitterer | September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Sometimes it helps talking to a different set of clients to get a reality check. In my world, where all that’s needed is broadband and an airport (I’m exaggerating a little here) it is really helpful to get a new perspective on how our clients are grappling with day-to-day issues. I recently met with a [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Clients Gartner Travel Tags: Africa, BI, Data, Excel
by Andy Bitterer | September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Wherever I go to present on BI issues, such as technology, M&A, best practices, organizational issues, market development or else, one of my questions to the audience is “Who has a BI strategy?” and the typical response is fairly consistent. In most European or North American audiences, only about 2% of surveyed participants admit they [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Gartner Travel Tags: BI, Brazil, Gartner
