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Publications
Check out these books...
Some recent articles are...
 | Ethics in Business Intelligence:
A Practical Approach
Practical concepts and skills for identifying, analyzing,
and dealing with ethical issues related to BI.
Teradata Magazine, September 2005
( PDF 66KB)
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 | Science Intelligence:
Using Information to Support Smart Science
There are many similarities between Business Intelligence
and Science Intelligence. The infrastructure to support both may
also be similar.
DM Review, August 2005
( PDF 164KB)
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 | The Ethics of Business Process Management
Ethical issues are usually buried within the complexity of
BPM architectures. We must be aware of these issues, analyze
them thoroughly, and make informed policy decisions.
Business
Integration Journal, March 2005
( PDF 160KB)
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 | Market Shifts and Data Warehouse Appliances
Applies Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma framework to the
DW market, signaling a bumpy road ahead in terms of low-end and
new-market disruptions.
B-EYE
Network, March 2005 (
PDF 160KB)
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 | eXtreme Data Warehousing
With Stephen Brobst. Extending current DW technology by a
factor of ten and probes the benefits and issues with data
warehousing on the global scale.
Teradata
Magazine, September 2004
( PDF 533KB)
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 | Are You Unwired?
Are your business processes independent of location, time,
and scale? If so, then you are unwired!
DM
Review, November 2004 ( PDF 109KB)
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 | Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat
Enterprise reporting may hold insights for building your
enterprise data warehouse, as indicated by Crystal Report users.
DM
Review, September 2004 ( PDF 99KB)
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 | eXtreme Data Warehousing
First article describing XDW, where the current limits of DW
are extended by a factor of ten and the benefits and issues of
DW are explored on a global scale.
DM
Review, June 2004 (
PDF 115KB)
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 | What Do You Do With What You Know
What are the barriers to making BI actionable? This paper
explores five of those barriers.
DM Review, May 2004 (
PDF 98KB)
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 | Who's On First
Insightful look at the convergence of DW/EII and EAI/BAM,
which cries for an integrating framework.
DM Review, March 2004 ( PDF 141KB)
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 | Nurture the Wealth
Part of the What's Up in BI/DW series; From 23 interviews
with experts, the primary issue for 2004 is creating and
protecting corporate wealth as impacted by globalization,
integrity, and integration.
Intelligent
Enterprise, March 2004 (
PDF 113KB)
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 | Real-Time to Real-Value
How can you justify low-latency warehouse data.
DM Review, January 2004 (
PDF 169KB)
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 | Minimizing Action Distance
Heart of BI is making analytics actionable, which involves
the challenge of minimizing action distance.
TDAN,
June 2003 (
PDF 168KB) |
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Some recent whitepapers are...
 | Bumpy Road Ahead for DW Market
February 2005 for DATAllegro ( PDF 159KB)
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 | Current Practices in Active Data Warehousing
November 2002 for NCR/Teradata ( PDF
168KB)
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 | Achieving Active Business Intelligence:
A Real-World Study
December 2002 for Sagent Technology ( PDF 168KB)
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 | Successfully Deploying Enterprise Portals:
Current Industry Assessment
July 2002 for Computer Associates ( PDF 168KB)
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 | Portals Are More Than A Convenience
August 2001 for Computer Associates ( PDF 168KB)
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 | Active Data Warehouse: It's How You Win The Game
Teradata Magazine, First Quarter 2002 ( PDF 168KB) |
Dr. Hackathorn writes with a monthly column for DM Review titled The
BI Watch, reaching over 75,000 IT professionals. Current articles at
DM Review are listed below...
 | The BI Watch:
Who Is On First?
Column published on March 2004, DM Review ( PDF 141KB) |
 | The BI Watch:
Real-Time to Real-Value
Column published in January 2004, DM Review ( PDF 169KB) |
 | The BI Watch:
IT Doesn't Matter?
Column published in November 2003, DM Review |
 | The Link is the Thing, Part 3
Article published in October 2003, DM Review |
 | The Link is the Thing, Part 2
Article published in September 2003, DM Review |
 | The Link is the Thing, Part 1
Article published in August 2003, DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Ethics of Business Intelligence, Part I
Column published in June 2003, DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
2003: Cover-Your-Rear-Year for BI
Column published in May 2003, DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Selling BI in a Tight Economy
Column published in April 2003 in DM Review
 | The BI Watch:
Let Alerting Lead the Way
Column published in March 2003 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
The Early-Touch Principle: Key to Quality Customer Experiences
Column published in February 2003 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Vegas Reflections
Column published in December 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Forward to the Past
Column published in November 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Adaptive and Agile
Column published in October 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Minimizing Action Distance
Column published in September 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Web Farming for the Data Warehouse Is Coming!
Column published in June 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
What is Active Business Intelligence? Part 2
Column published in May 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
What is Active Business Intelligence? Part 1
Column published in April 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
BI and The New Reality
Column published in March 2002 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Making Business Intelligence Actionable
Column published in November 2001 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Mixing Privacy and Business Intelligence
Column published in September 2001 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
BI for Intelligent Cost Structures
Column published in June 2001 in DM Review |
 | The State of the BI Marketplace
Article published in April 2001 in DM Review |
 | Web-Based Management for Distributed Databases
Article published in March 2001 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Extending the Warehouse Beyond the Enterprise
Column published in March 2001 in DM Review Exclusive Online
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 | The BI Watch:
Data, Data Everywhere...
Column published in February 2001 in DM Review |
 | The BI Watch:
Little BI Versus Big BI
Column published in January 2001 in DM Review |
 | Farming Web Resources for the Data Warehouse
Article published in May 2000 in DM Direct |
 | Farming Web Resources for the Data Warehouse
Article published in June 1999 in DM Review |
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Some articles on Web Farming...
 | Article in DB2 Magazine,
Summer 1999 
( PDF
137KB, 10 pages)
 | Article in DM Review, June
1999 
( PDF 57KB, 8 pages)
 | Book review by Columnist Jason Levitt
in Information Week, November 1, 1999 
( PDF 33KB, 1 page)
 | Book review by Prof. Elliot King
of
Enterprise Systems Journal, June 1999 
( PDF 41KB, 2 pages)
 | Website review by KM World, March,
1999 
( PDF 33KB, 2 pages)
 | Editor's Choice Award by DM
Review
on March 5, 1999 
 | Article in DBMS, August,
1998 
( PDF
74KB, 8 pages)
 | Article in BYTE, October,
1997 
( PDF 126KB, 7 pages) |
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Some Really Old Stuff...
 | Richard D. Hackathorn: Analyzing
Transaction Activity to a Large Data Base: An Empirical Study. Very
Large Data Base (VLDB) Conference 1975: 502-504 ( PDF 211KB, 3 pages)
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 | R. Hackathorn references at DBLP
Bibliography Server (uni-trier.de) 
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 | R. Hackathorn references at the ACM
Digital Library 
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 | R. Hackathorn references at the ACM
Guide to Computing Literature 
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