Corporate Spending on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in 2003

Curt Hall

Results from our latest survey analyzing corporate data warehousing and BI trends show that fewer companies plan to increase spending on their data warehousing and BI efforts in 2003 than those that indicated they planned to do so just nine months ago.


Microsoft and Open Source -- Now or Never

Cutter Consortium, Cutter Consortium
  For more information on Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Advisory Service, please contact Dennis Crowley at +1 781 641 5125 or e-mail dcrowley@cutter.com

Corporate Spending on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in 2003

Curt Hall

Results from our latest survey analyzing corporate data warehousing and BI trends show that fewer companies plan to increase spending on their data warehousing and BI efforts in 2003 than those that indicated they planned to do so just nine months ago.


Corporate Spending on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in 2003

Curt Hall

Results from our latest survey analyzing corporate data warehousing and BI trends show that fewer companies plan to increase spending on their data warehousing and BI efforts in 2003 than those that indicated they planned to do so just nine months ago.


Getting the Most Out of Your IT Application and Project Portfolio Investments

Ian Hayes
In tough economic times, "getting more from less" is a common refrain. For IT organizations, the pressure on costs is enormous, yet high performance is still expected. After wringing performance gains from IT staff, IT managers are seeking to increase business value by actively managing their application and project portfolios.

Measuring IT Projects for Successful Business Alignment

Alexandre Rodrigues
PROJECT MEASUREMENT

Tom DeMarco was clear when he said, "You can't control what you can't measure." 1 The concept of a software metric is widely developed, and it reflects the worldwide industry acknowledgement of this imperative need. To respond effectively to business demands, IT activities must be assessed, estimated, planned, and monitored based on measurement. The "project-oriented" reality of most IT departments and companies places projects as the primary target for measurement.


Project Management: Who's in Charge?

Steve Andriole
Many people believe that software "engineering" is not an engineering discipline at all but rather a set of sometimes-followed best practices that, when all is said and done, aren't really the best. They point to all of the applications projects that fail, the billions of dollars allegedly wasted annually on shelfware, and the spate of reports from industry analysts that state that, for every successful technology project, there are three failures.

There are numerous reasons why this is the case -- just ask, you'll get any number of explanations.


New Year's Resolutions for the Project Manager

Luke Hohmann
The start of a new year is often the time to think about change -- as evidenced by the tradition of New Year's resolutions. Some people make too many and keep none; others, having burned themselves in the past, resolve not to make any and unintentionally fail. A few resolve to keep the one or two resolutions they've made, and an even luckier few actually succeed. Which description best applies to you?

One of the reasons we get stuck about resolutions is that we're not sure what to resolve. Fortunately, I've made a lot of resolutions and have even kept a few.


Project Management Revisited

Robert Austin
A year ago, in the March 2002 issue of CBR , we dealt with the perennial and difficult topic of project management. The charter of CBR calls for occasionally revisiting such foundational topics to present updated information. That's what we're doing this month.

In my introduction to the March 2002 issue, I commented that project management is a subject with a perplexing profile. There's a lot of agreement about its importance and about the kinds of skills and activities that go into practicing it successfully.


Microsoft .NET

Tom Welsh
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The Interplay Between OLAP and Data Mining

Ken Collier

Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a powerful and essential tool in every BI toolbox, enabling decisionmakers to easily explore operational data in powerful ways. OLAP is fundamentally a descriptive tool. It provides intelligence about what has happened and can trigger an effective, albeit reactive, response.