For those of you that live in the Southern Ontario region you know that the summer of 2008 will go down in the records books as the rainiest summers on record.  The weather was often sunny and warm, but when it rained it really came down hard. Unfortunately there is a little pest known to us a... [More]

Microsoft had two big annoucements related to BI this week. Both are for Q1 2010 release. Kilimanjaro - this is an addition to SQL server for distributed processing of very large databases. They demonstrated a farm of 24 servers X 8 CPUs processing queries of a 150 TB database. Gemini - this is... [More]

I saw a brilliantly simple application of data mining this afternoon. Consider the scenario where you already have lots of data and users still entry more data via a web form. Apply Data Mining to determine if the information the user entered makes sense based on the existing data. Flag any fie... [More]

I went to a Gartner session where they talked about the future of BI. The two items that stood our were: BI as a service - particularly as it applies to consolidating information in an industry and selling the aggregate back to the customer base Emergence of a Model Factory - building, pac... [More]