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White papers and articles by Neil Raden:

Topic

Sponsor

Title

 

Magazines & Journals

Analytics

- The Case for Business Modeling

 

Analytics

- coming in March 2007 (Analytics On Demand)

 

Analytics

- An Analytics Manifesto

 

Analytics

- The Foundations of Analytics: Visualization, Interactivity and Utility

 

Analytics

- coming in March 2007 (Analytics as a Service)

 

BIReview

Analytics

NextGen Software or Software for the NextGen?

 

Appliances

- Strongbox Appliance Solution

 

 

Appliances

- Solving the Load/Query Conundrum in Dimensional Design

 

 

Appliances

- Unleashing Enterprise Business Intelligence
in an Era of Affordable Computing Resources

 

APPEARANCES

Appliances

- Quasar Database Acceleration
for Data Warehouse Applications

 

This Year

BI

- Reporting Steps Up

 

Prior Years

BI

- coming in March 2007 (Guided Search and Analysis in BI)

 

 

BI

- Business Objects Solutions for SAP

 

 

BI

- Coming in March 2007

 

 

BI

- Ambient Business Intelligence

 

 

BI

- BI 2.0: Pervasive, Intelligent and Timely

 

 

Data Warehouse

- coming in February 2007

 

 

Data Warehouse

- Questions to Ask a Data Warehouse Appliance Vendor

 

 

Data Warehouse

- Exploring the Business Imperatives of Real-Time Analytics

 

 

Data Warehouse

- coming in March 2007 (Teradata and SAP)

 

 

Data Warehouse

- Enterprise Business Intelligence ROI|

 

 

Info Architecture

- A New Approach to Data Integration and
Management for Business Intelligence

 

 

Semantic Tech

- Application Semantics: The Starting Point for Adopting SOA|

 

 

Semantic Tech

- The Emerging Role of Semantic Technology in the Enterprise

 

 

Semantic Tech

- Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data

 

 

Shadow Systems

- The Managed Spreadsheet Environment

 

 

Shadow Systems

- Shedding Light on Shadow IT Is Excel Running Your Business?

 

 

 


RECENT MAGAZINE COLUMNS AND ARTICLES BY NEIL RADEN

Business Intelligence Review

 

Ease of Use or Usefulness?

The next wave of BI users will be unforgiving of tools that can't deliver

 The Limits of Measurement :

Introducing measurement systems and metrics can backfire if it isn't treated as an organizational change effort

Shadow IT: A Lesson for BI

Shadow IT is a massive problem, but looking for solutions to replace spreadsheets is not likely to succeed

 

BPM Magazine

 

Super Models: The Best of BPM Analytics

With Dave Menninger of Applix – Requirements for fully functioning business modeling software in BPM

 

 

 

Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible and Inevitable

Say goodbye to complicated interfaces, disconnected analytics and shelfware. An emerging era for BI will bring simplicity, broad access and better ties between analysis and action.

 

BI Megatrends 2006

The major drivers of BI going forward such as search, semantics and master data management

Web 2.0's Effect on Business Intelligence

AJAX, versionless software, P2P, blogging and open source

Looking for Meaning in the Semantic Web

Can the Semantic Web technology be applied to semantic webs inside the firewall?

Start Making Sense

Semantic integration and ontology will drive changes in data warehousing and BI

Set Disruptors ON FULL

New information integration technologies are becoming today's disruptive technologies.

Dashboarding Ourselves

Some sobering results of our recent market research about user attitudes

The New Deal

Using active metadata, abstraction and the application of Moore's Law to ramp up BI

Stepping Up BI Expectations

An explanation of the requirements for truly enterprise Business Intelligence

Get Real Part I ; Part II

Technical requirements for real-time data warehousing. Guest columnist for Ralph Kimball

 

 



 

Toppling the BI Pyramid

The BI pyramid is a poor model for understanding usage patterns and requirements.

The Red Adair Act

Data warehouse rescue

A Beautiful Data Warehouse

What a resounding success looks like

The Other End of the Telescope

Are data warehouse methodologies backwards?

 

 

Flashpoint

 

Assorted columns

For members of TDWI only; contact nraden@hiredbrains.com for copies

Analytics for the Masses

Critique of Tom Davenport’s “Competing on Analytics”

 

 

Teradata Magazine

 

Executive View: What's the REAL Real-Time Opportunity?

 

A Fresh New Look at Enterprise Data Warehousing

 

 

 

 

 

The New Deal

 

 


"Who's Minding the Cache?"
Storage options for high performance data warehouses
"Warehouses and the Web"
Why use the web to access a data warehouse
"Boost Warehouse Performance"
Special demands placed on relational database technology by data warehousing; parallelism and core algorithms
"Maximizing Your Warehouse" 
Special demands placed on relational database technology by data warehousing; query optimization and indexing
"Modeling a Data Warehouse" 
How to do dimensional modeling with the Star Schema
"Data, Data Everywhere"
A method for selecting the correct OLAP technology 

Other:
"Teraforming the Data Warehouse"
Teradata's unique approach to data warehousing calls for front-end tools to be evaluated in a different way 
"Understanding Profit"
Why a combination of business redesign and information technology is needed to untangle and understand profit in financial services organizations
"Dialogue on Plato"
An analysis of the impact on users and vendors when Microsoft's OLAP offering appears on the scene
"Push-back on Push"
The impact of "Push" technology on data warehousing
"Worlds in Collision" 
Merging business and IT architecture perspectives to evaluate query and analysis tools successfully


Apperances 2007 (planned)

Microstrategy World, Miami, January 22-25
Spotfire Webinar, February 10
fastForward, San Diego, February 8-9
TDWI, Las Vegas, February 19-23
Celequest Webinar, March 1
DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, Boston, March 3-8
CDI-MDM Summit, San Francisco, March 25
Business Process Management Summit, Miami, March 26-27
Hyperion Solutions, San Francisco, April 23-25
CDI-MDM Summit, London, April 31-May 2
Society of Actuaries (Life), Phoenix, May 9-11
Fair Isaac InterAct, San Francisco, May 15-18
Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, May 20-24
Society of Actuaries (Health), Seattle, June 13-15

Appearances 2006

Microstrategy World, Miami, January 22-25
Spotfire Webinar, January 31
TDWI, Las Vegas, February 20-24
CDI-MDM Summit, San Francisco, March 2-3
Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, March 6-9
DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, Denver, April 23-27
SAP SAPPHIRE, Orlando, May 16-18
Informatica World, San Francisco, May 22-24
BI Forum, San Francisco, June 4-6
TDWI, San Diego, August 20-25
Teradata Partners, Orlando, September 17-21
ComputerWorld BI, Las Vegas, September 25-27
Society of Actuaries, Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 15-16
CDI-MDM Summit, New York, October 17
E-metrics Summit: Optimizing Online Marketing Value, Washington DC,