| Dear
Colleague,
Welcome to the relaunch of the Bolder Report. As some
of you know, the Bolder Report was a newsletter that I
published in hardcopy for many years - until stuffing
paper and licking stamps became tiresome. Over the past
several years, I sent random emails to random people.
Now we are getting serious again.
Using a new service from Constant Contact, we will
distribute the Bolder Report as e-newsletter. We are
testing this infrastructure to determine if it will
support a professional audience with serious content,
along with a firm privacy policy. The frequency will be
every one or two months. Thank you for your interest!
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| Who's on First |
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 As the BI Watch column
in DM Review, this article is an insightful look
at the convergence of DW/EII and EAI/BAM, which
cries for an integrating theory. The title comes
from the classic comic routine where Abbott and
Costello use the same words but with entirely
different meanings. The same is happening with
corporate IT today. The people in DW and in EAI
use the same words but...
Read Article »
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| Information
Visualization for BI |
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 Although Information
Visualization (IV) has been a part of BI/DW from
the beginning, any IV beyond a simple
spreadsheet has not become mainstream. Yet, the
potential of IV is huge! So, what really works?
And why? That's our objective.
New research project! Your help is requested.
If you know of any effective IV tools or
applications, please send me a pointer. I will
synthesize this material into an open web
resource center, seminar syllabus, and several
articles.
Read Details (one-page
PDF) »
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'Update Your Profile" by choosing among
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Small Worlds Lurking In
Your DW?
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'The Link is the Thing'
is a 3-part article appearing in DM Review last
fall. It describes a new approach to analyzing
enterprise data. Using network analysis from
complex systems theory, the Small Worlds
property for massive graph structures is
explored in the context of data warehousing.
Click
for a PDF copy of the article (657KB)
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