Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Netezza

  • BI Vendors & Thought Leaders on Twitter

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    Our aggregated twitter feed https://datamgmt.com/twitter has all the latest tweets from thought leaders, vendors and some leading BI organisations. You can also subscribe to the list directly on twitter Don’t forget whilst you are here to have a look at our White Papers, Presentations and Blog The current list includes (links to their individual twitter accounts):…

  • Implementing Netezza Spatial

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    An internal training presentation on implementing Netezza Spatial functionality What is Spatial Technology? It’s the ability to analyse information in a geographic context: Where is the nearest petrol station? Which road am I on? How many ATMs are in this area? It’s not maps and images These come later with tools that help present the…

  • At last someone we understand …

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    It is rare with all the background reading and research that I have to do that I read a contemporary book and say “Yes, this guy gets it” – notice that I say contemporary. There are plenty of good books about the day-to-day business intelligence problems that I see which were written over 20 years…

  • Data Warehouse Appliances – Fad or Future?

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    This article was originally written for Conspectus Magazine in December 2006 and has been updated in November 2009 by the original author Despite all the hype from vendors the basics of data warehousing have remained fundamentally unchanged – extract data from multiple source systems, reformat the information into an easy to query structure, load it into a…

  • Conspectus: Data Warehousing Appliances: Fad or Future

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    The original article for Conspectus magazine. Conspectus is the UK’s leading independent report which authoritatively addresses the key IT application areas. It is acknowledged as one of the most trusted journals in the IT industry and is used by many organisations to help them in their selection of IT software and technology. An updated version…