Best BI articles, 20 - 27 October

Due diligence is one of the most important steps businesses can take before choosing a cloud computing provider.

As an IT provider, I am overwhelmed with all the options for Business Intelligence in the cloud and very confused by how to compare service offerings in order to effective provide the best solutions. In the article we will discuss some of the different offerings on the market and why all business are racing toward the cloud for Business Intelligence Solutions.

Where traditional business intelligence presents historical data for manual analysis, adding real-time analysis of current events to the mix can deliver enormous benefits.

My name is Kamilla Nyegaard-Larsen. As someone new to the BI industry, last week I started a blog series looking at BI Basics. And where better to begin than by asking " What is business intelligence "? However, now that we have an understanding of what BI is you may be thinking: "That's all well and good, but how will this benefit me?"

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to develop four initiatives to better analyze and leverage the explosion of information available from complex biomedical data sets, known as Big Data.

Big Data processing has usually been done by distributing workloads over lots of commodity machines, but Cray threw that notion out with a new monster system (it calls it an appliance but looks like a server rack) called Urika-XA.