by Andy Bitterer | February 18, 2009 | 7 Comments
What really annoys me is when people make public claims about things that they have clearly no clue about. Facts or the truth don’t seem to matter anymore, all that counts is bold verbiage. There could be multiple reasons for this behavior: Maybe some people are too lazy to do proper research before raising their [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Gartner Magic Quadrant Market Open Source Technology Uncategorized Vendors Tags: BI, Gartner, Open Source
by Andy Bitterer | October 21, 2008 | 11 Comments
I must have attended a few dozen BI vendor conferences large and small over the years and sat through many hundred BI briefings. And I have to admit, that my expectations have largely decreased over time. Maybe it’s because the market is considered mature, maybe because I have heard every possible marketing claim, maybe I’ve [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Gartner Market Tags: Business Intelligence, innovation, inspiration, integration, reporting
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. [...]
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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
