The use of data visualization to capture or express results from BI and analytics processes has increased greatly, particularly with the growing interest in “big data” analytics. For many companies, data visualization is seen as a way to express more complex concepts that hopefully will be grasped by business roles quickly and clearly to lead [...]

Companies are attracted to cloud services because they are frequently quick and easy to use, while keeping many costs down. Unfortunately the characteristics that draw many customers to the Cloud are the same ones that can “blind” those users to the critical need for managing both the data and quality of the data that results [...]

Data Quality seems to be caught in the middle of two extremes:  one that wants to ensure that all data is trust-worthy and reliable to be used by any and all business processes; and the other that wants to get away from complex solutions that take too long to implement and turns on the notion [...]

As more applications and services proliferate in the Cloud, it may well be that this overall Cloud tech arena will be instrumental in demonstrating the increasingly important role of data integration for meaningful and timely business processes and operations. Enterprises have already made a start with using Cloud services for on demand BI and analytics, [...]

Whether the focus of an enterprise is on “big data” or not, analytics-driven companies are faced with processing many new data sources from inside and outside the firewall. These data sources may be complex structures — or the complexities may come from other aspects such as data trading protocols and message transports. Depending on the [...]