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Poor Project Management Dooms IT Initiatives

With the fiasco of the HealthCare.gov launch, this article was going to be a condemnation of the testing (or lack of) effort.  However, the more I thought about it, the more it became evident that no amount of testing would have corrected the lack of project and...

We ♥ Business Data

I love looking at word clouds when trying to analyze free-form text.  They help me quickly perceive the most prominent terms that are present in a body of text, and many times can be helpful in analyzing the topics or themes that are most important to the writer (or...

QlikView Process Visualization

You know that feeling you get picking up on a BI project that has been worked on by other people for months?  All that data pouring in from different databases, spreadsheets and in-line loads, the practically untestable reloads of tables to get ten-line IF statements...

Large Single Servers for Business Intelligence

Bardess brings years of experience on large servers. When you get into large servers plus large BI applications and you want peak performance, then everything about your processors, memory and memory bus becomes an issue.   For example, as you increase the DIMMs...
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