I was recently at a SAS event in which Jim Davis, their Chief Marketing Officer, talked about the commoditization of BI. He described their sales efforts for these applications as low and the price s

评估ROI让人厌倦，我不大喜欢干这事儿，总觉得是斤斤计较。干就干了，干吗还假假地去评估收入成本。可这是数字化社会的基础，一件事情干的好干的坏，得用数字 来证明一下。但显而易见，数字是可解释的。因此，我怀疑

OLAP 是使分析人员、管理人员或执行人员能够从多角度对信息进行快速、一致、交互地存取 , 从而获得对数据的更深入了解的一类软件技术。 OLAP 的目标是满足决策支持或者满足在多维环境下特定的查询和报表需求 , 它的技术核心是 维 这个概念。 维 是人们观察客观世界的角

任何新技术催生的应用，都为企业注入强心剂。 在产品甚至竞争手段同质化的今天，成功的企业为什么能够超越对手，同类型公司的业绩为何差距迥然，答案或许有很多种。但有一点可以肯定，那就是新技术应用于产品和管理时，会给企业带来突破性的商业价值。 我们所推荐的，均

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One of the pillars of business intelligence capabilities is something called ETL (define), an acronym standing for extract, transform and load. ETL can also be a pillar for business integration as well. ETL allows applications to take data from outs

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The sixth edition of The OLAP Survey is now available for purchase. The OLAP Survey 6 provides a thoroughly independent and unbiased account of the market's verdict on vendors, products, and corporate project success rates based on the responses of

Introduction Market consolidation One way of measuring market consolidation is to track the collective market share of the top few vendors in the market in each year. This chart shows that the OLAP market was fragmenting until 1997, but there was so