The heart of an IOA is what we have chosen to call the middleware components. This set of software components connects the BI applications to the various BI data sources in a reliable way, delivering data to the applications in a timely manner. This is not a trivial task to achieve, requiring more than just [...]

Pervasive’s data integration jack-of-all trades, Paige Roberts, has just launched her new blog on ebizQ with a post about the natural conflict that exists between the business and implementation worlds when it comes to how to best manage BI data. She notes that “That delicate balance between business need and available resources is the crux [...]

In my last posting I discussed the data centric and process centric view of IT. Let’s now take this a little further and put these two views of the IT world on an equal footing. If we do that, then just as there is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), there also needs to be an [...]

We can attack this thorny question in many ways. But let’s set the scene by suggesting that, in concept, BI isn’t really about technology, at least not conceptually. “Business Intelligence” is a lousy term admittedly, because it is not exactly self-defining; pretty much everyone would agree that Business Intelligence is about getting and analyzing information [...]

One of the keys to successful data integration is taking the time to ensure data quality across business processes. However, few organizations have the patience or can afford the expense associated with attaining a sufficient level of data quality to ensure effective data integration. Pivotal Information Technology (IT) is employing Pervasive Software’s data quality and [...]