Infobright Puts a Clever Twist on the Columnar Database Wildan 6:25 PM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, columnar database, database technology, open source bi, open source software Edit It took me some time to form a clear picture of analytical database vendor Infobright , despite an excellent white paper that seems to have ... Read More
Bah, Humbug: Let's Not Forget the True Meaning of On-Demand Wildan 3:53 PM Add Comment analytics tools, on-demand software, predictive modeling Edit I was skeptical the other day about the significance of on-demand business intelligence. I still am. But I’ve also been thinking about th... Read More
QlikView Scripts Are Powerful, Not Sexy Wildan 10:30 AM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, business intelligence, dashboards, database technology, qliktech, qlikview Edit I spent some time recently delving into QlikView ’s automation functions, which allow users to write macros to control various activities. ... Read More
Fitting QlikTech into the Business Intelligence Universe Wildan 4:46 PM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, dashboards, qliktech, qlikview, software selection, vendor evaluation Edit I’ve been planning for about a month to write about the position of QlikTech in the larger market for business intelligence systems. The t... Read More
1010data Offers A Powerful Columnar Database Wildan 2:03 PM Add Comment 1010Data, analysis systems, analytics tools, columnar database, database technology, on-demand software, Tenbase Edit Back in October I wrote here about the resurgent interest in alternatives to standard relational databases for analytical applications. Ve... Read More
Just How Scalable Is QlikTech? Wildan 2:07 PM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, business intelligence, database technology, qliktech, qlikview Edit A few days ago, I replied to a question regarding QlikTech scalability. (See What Makes QlikTech So Good? , August 3, 2007) I asked QlikT... Read More
Proprietary Databases Rise Again Wildan 10:33 AM Add Comment analytics tools, business intelligence, columnar database, database technology, marketing software Edit I’ve been noticing for some time that “proprietary” databases are making a come-back in the world of marketing systems. “Proprietary” is a ... Read More
Analytica Provides Low-Cost, High-Quality Decision Models Wildan 3:11 PM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, marketing software Edit My friends at DM News , which has published my Software Review column for the past fifteen years, unceremoniously informed me this week that... Read More
Dashboard Software: Finding More than Flash Wildan 9:37 AM Add Comment analytics tools, customer metrics, dashboards, score cards, software selection Edit I’ve been reading a lot about marketing performance metrics recently, which turns out to be a drier topic than I can easily tolerate—and I h... Read More
Are Visual Sciences and WebSideStory Really the Same Company? (As a matter of fact, yes.) Wildan 12:00 PM Add Comment analytics tools, marketing software, web analytics Edit Last week, WebSideStory announced it was going to become part of the Visual Sciences brand. (The two companies merged in February 2006 bu... Read More
Operational Systems Should Be Designed with Testing in Mind Wildan 8:30 AM Add Comment analytics tools, customer experience management, multivariate testing, web analytics Edit A direct marketing client pointed out to me recently that it can be very difficult to set up tests in operational systems. There is no smal... Read More
Users Want Answers, Not Tools Wildan 1:24 PM Add Comment analysis systems, analytics tools, business intelligence, lifetime value, web analytics Edit I hope you appreciated that yesterday’s post about reports within the sample Lifetime Value system was organized around the questions that e... Read More