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January 2003 - Volume 1, Issue 18

IN THIS ISSUE

Featured Article: BI: An Oasis In The Desert?   
  • BI: An Oasis In The Desert?   

    The September quarter marked a new low point for the seven publicly traded business intelligence (BI) companies in our universe (Actuate Corp., Brio Software, Business Objects, Cognos*, Hyperion Solutions, Informatica, and MicroStrategy). Cumulative software license revenue was $211 million during the 12 months ended Sept. 30, down 12% from the June quarter ($239 million) and even below the 2001 third quarter ($217 million) that was affected by the events of Sept. 11.

  • Impossible Data Warehouse Justification and Budget Issues   

    The following is taken from "Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions from the Experts" by Sid Adelman, co-authored by Joyce Bischoff, Jill Dyche, Sean Ivoghli, Douglas Hackney, Chuck Kelley, David Marco, Larissa Moss, and Clay Rehm. Addison Wesley published October 2002.

  • Business-Focused Data Analysis   

    This article is excerpted from the book Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Lifecycle for Decision Support Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003). All material is copyright Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre, Addison-Wesley.

  • Be Careful What You Ask For With Consultants...Because You Just Might Get It   

    I really enjoy consulting. Consulting has given me many opportunities to meet and work alongside a wide variety of fascinating people that are full of ideas about how they want their business to run and how to get there. Day-in and day-out, client-in and client-out, consultants are exposed to new business perspectives and newer technologies that can be used (with guidance, of course) to lead clients to better manage and leverage their data, information and knowledge. This I enjoy.

Letter From the Editor

by David Marco, President of Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc.

Dear Readers,

Everyone at the Enterprise Warehousing Solutions family would like to wish you and your family a wonderful and blessed holiday season.

As a reminder, articles for our April 1, 2003 issue of Real-World Decision Support are due by March 3, 2002.

Calling All Writers

At RWDS we are always looking to publish new and informative, how-to articles. Our ever growing readership now totals over 26,000 registered readers and more than 30,000 unique visitors that visit the website during a new issue publication. Articles for RWDS can cover any topic in decision support, business intelligence, knowledge management, or information technology (IT) in general. Below is a brief list of possible topics:

  • Architecture
  • Best Practices
  • Conducting Tool Evaluations
  • Data Marts
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Warehousing
  • e-Business
  • Industry Standards
  • Meta Data
  • Operational Data Stores
  • Project Management
  • Staffing
  • UML
  • Unstructured Data
  • "War" stories from the field
  • XML, Etc.

Don't miss this opportunity to join the ranks of "those that write". If you would like to publish an article in Real-World Decision Support please send an email to MReed@EWSolutions.com and make sure to read our article guidelines at http://www.EWSolutions.com/

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