Emerging Trends in BI 2012 and the Microsoft stack
I just finished watching a webinar from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) on the top BI trends for 2012 and thought I’d match those trends to the Microsoft stack for comparison. According to TDWI,...
View ArticleMaking BI sense of the Cloud hype: Part 1 Software as a Service
If the hype is to be believed, the Cloud is the most amazing thing ever. Something that you’ll want to wad up into your IT life and roll up to be a singular star in you IT sky. I’ve seen taciturn...
View ArticleMaking sense of the Cloud hype Part 2: Infrastructure as Service
In part one of this series I discussed about Software as a service (Saas) and some findings in that area. This post is about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In essence it’s just like the SaaS model...
View Article“New Analytics” in Spotlight
Great article highlighting changes in business analytics industry: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation from ComputerWorld.com. Some mention of ROI, the reporting tools in the forefront...
View ArticleBirst and TriCore Partner
TriCore Solutions, LLC and Birst Inc have combined forces to offer a more complete cloud-based BI solution. Birst, founded in 2004, has been make great strides as a disrupter in the Business...
View ArticleGoogle makes BI push with Cloud Platform Partner Program
One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and...
View ArticleCloud: It’s NOT all where it’s at…..
Like my 1st grade teacher would tell me when I ended a sentence with this preposition……”It’s between the ‘A’ and the ‘T’”. Well, in this situation, it’s between the “cloud” and the “on premise”. More...
View Article“Accelerate your Insights”– Indeed!
I have to say, I was very excited today as I listened to Satya Nadella describe the capabilities of the new SQL 2014 Data Platform during the Accelerate your Insights event. My excitement wasn’t...
View ArticlePerficient takes Cognos TM1 to the Cloud
IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across an enterprise, as well as provide real-time analytics,...
View ArticleInformation Governance & The Cloud
The practice of Information Governance (IG) is evolving rapidly; it has become much more than just Data Governance. One of the most interesting and challenging additions to IG recently has been...
View ArticleBirst and TriCore Partner
TriCore Solutions, LLC and Birst Inc have combined forces to offer a more complete cloud-based BI solution. Birst, founded in 2004, has been make great strides as a disrupter in the Business...
View ArticleGoogle makes BI push with Cloud Platform Partner Program
One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and...
View ArticleCloud: It’s NOT all where it’s at…..
Like my 1st grade teacher would tell me when I ended a sentence with this preposition……”It’s between the ‘A’ and the ‘T’”. Well, in this situation, it’s between the “cloud” and the “on premise”. More...
View Article“Accelerate your Insights”– Indeed!
I have to say, I was very excited today as I listened to Satya Nadella describe the capabilities of the new SQL 2014 Data Platform during the Accelerate your Insights event. My excitement wasn’t...
View ArticlePerficient takes Cognos TM1 to the Cloud
IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across an enterprise, as well as provide real-time analytics,...
View ArticleInformation Governance & The Cloud
The practice of Information Governance (IG) is evolving rapidly; it has become much more than just Data Governance. One of the most interesting and challenging additions to IG recently has been...
View ArticleAll Things Data – Day 3 Informatica World 2016
Informatica World wrapped up last week with some exciting product discussions, including Informatica Product 360, Data Governance, and Cloud Data Management. The Informatica Cloud product team...
View ArticlePerficient Announces New ECM Partnership with Alfresco
In May, Perficient formalized a partnership with Alfresco to expand our capabilities in the Enterprise Content Intelligence space. Alfresco provides modern enterprise content management (ECM) and...
View ArticleData Integration Challenges with Cloud-Based CRM
Adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications continues to increase as advances in technology address concerns with security, privacy and customization limitations. The global SaaS market is...
View Article4 Ways Big Data is Helping Transform All Companies
A couple of years ago, I read several articles detailing the challenges of Big Data and the confusion around implementation. The message was as follows: Everyone talks about it, nobody really knows...
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