http://mike2.openmethodology.org/bookmarks/ Recent bookmarks posted to OM Bookmarks 60 http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/024/ibmrd0204H.pdf The original IBM paper that coined the term "business intelligence" Desmond.brennan Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:14:42 +0000 business intelligence http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory Chris Anderson is essentially arguing against a priori theoretical models, rather using induction that seeks correlations to show us the pattern. A controversial but useful approach! Desmond.brennan Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:50:31 +0000 business intelligence data mining google science http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/2008/07/apache_hadoop_wins_terabyte_sort_benchmark.html Hadoop is the type of technology most large Web companies are using to deal with petabytes of data, massive distributed clusters with the file system & database blurring. Whilst Yahoo are mostly responsible for Hadopp it is based on Google's ideas. Desmond.brennan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:33:53 +0000 database distributed computing google grid computing high performance computing http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/3971 Suggests splitting data stewards into Business Data Stewards(semantics) and Source Data Stewards(Physical). Some split like this is needed as "steward" is too broad a role. Desmond.brennan Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:24:36 +0000 data governance data quality enterprise data management information governance http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/ Advocates that decisions in all fields ought to be based on empirical facts/statistics. Apparently this view is controversial ;-). Desmond.brennan Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:54:42 +0000 book business intelligence data mining http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=9104 Got a VLDB that uses something like BLOBs ? Then see this, similar to Hadoop, now 2 other database vendors are implementing MapReduce in a way which will allow low level parallel processing be achieved with relatively simple imperative language. Desmond.brennan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:56:21 +0000 database distributed computing google grid computing high performance computing http://www.eiminstitute.org/current-magazine/volume-2-issue-3-june-2008-edition/bi-with-or-without-dw Article is summary of journal issue which was devoted to this topic. Interesting topic: is building a DW "fast" enough , can BI be done in Excel ? Is agile development the answer? Will EII make DWs unnecessary? Etc Desmond.brennan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:26:59 +0000 business intelligence data warehousing http://www.hothardware.com/News/Study_Finds_Instant_Messaging_Helps_Productivity/ The biggest(?) challenge for Information Management is that it requires highly cross functional work,people from different teams, functions& locations.This study ought help companies overcome their resistance to Instant Messaging, improving collaboration. Desmond.brennan Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:44:30 +0000 collaboration enterprise 2.0 http://www.infogoal.com/dmc/dmcdmd.htm Pretty good simple portal with links to software & expertise Desmond.brennan Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:19:47 +0000 data governance data modeling enterprise data management http://www.databaseanswers.com/modelling_tools.htm A list of data modeling tools as at 2004 , useful starting point. Desmond.brennan Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:21:17 +0000 data governance data modeling enterprise data management http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34036/title/Scooping_the_political_pollsters More work from social science "data crunching" which is really beginning to capture the public imagination in the US. Desmond.brennan Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:25:39 +0000 business intelligence data mining politics http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/8031 Article positons Zoomix as the long awaited data quality addition to msft but Zoomix has strong MDM capabilities -what of Stratature? Desmond.brennan Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:38:22 +0000 data quality improvement master data management vendors http://www.tdwi.org/research/reportseries/reports.aspx?pid=506 A 28 page paper with survey results. A good quality overview showing the current state of Data Governance. Desmond.brennan Wed, 21 May 2008 14:31:35 +0000 data governance data quality data quality improvement enterprise data management information governance information quality master data management http://tdan.com/view-articles/5037 Series (8 so far) on data governance focusing on stewardship. Useful. Desmond.brennan Wed, 28 May 2008 16:47:31 +0000 data governance information governance http://www.eiminstitute.org/library/eimi-archives/volume-2-issue-3-june-2008-edition/201cwhat2019s-in-your-data-architecture-201d-part-two Good overview/defintion of what ought to be in a conceptual enterprise data model Desmond.brennan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:11:50 +0000 data governance data modeling data quality improvement data warehousing enterprise data management enterprise data model information governance