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Managing customer expectations in an era of aging analytics can be challenging. IT business interface managers need to become more active in understanding business intelligence users’ gripes and "wow" factors regularly.

Pack your lunchbox and sharpen your No. 2 pencils. It's time to bet back to the basics of data warehousing.

It is important to define your project’s technical architecture early in the process, with input from the team. This includes all the hardware, software and other technologies your project requires. It will need to be flexible, but the sooner you get it right, the better off your budget and schedule will be.

From data processing centers in the '60s to PC networks in the '80s to this century's Cloud, the systems for managing large amounts of data are coming full circle. Read up on the latest trend: Mobile Data Centers.

Little thought is given to enhancing the data warehouse after production. But all of these areas would be given proper treatment during the initial warehouse development--if a clear process was followed.

Does the perfect data warehousing book exist? Click here and check it out.

Getting your data model right and designing it to scale is the key to building a successful data warehouse. Here's how to make sure your toilet doesn't end up in the kitchen.

Tools are only one piece of the puzzle. Here are five reasons why data warehousing solutions have not become as mature as expected, and what you need to do in order to make your data warehousing implementation successful.

You've muddled through the selection, structure, standards and organization steps of your DW project--now what? It's time to execute. Get the tools you need to work through the daily DW grind. Use them correctly, and you can avoid or resolve common problems.

Data warehouse projects are, essentially, the biggie size IT project. Project structure, standards and organizational guidelines: these are all magnified when creating the foundation for a successful DW project environment. Don't fear, though, we'll walk you through the basics of a DW project and help eliminate questions and focus on building a successful project.

Managing data to reap the benefits of high-performance business intelligence means having to store more data than most systems can handle. That's where SANs come in, and it's why you need to know about this next trend in storage as part of your BI process.

The Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center will outsource its earned value management system for overseeing about $400 million worth of projects over the next five years.

Project management alone is not enough to tame the beast of data warehousing. It's time to call in the big guns of program management.

ITIL analytics can be a powerful enabler in helping better understand the performance of a set of services--and will help you identify ways to streamline and automate operations.

When people think of methodology, they usually imagine the theorists of IT pontificating on the virtues of an application development strategy. Methodology, in truth, is very important to the success of a data warehousing project. Without methodology, a team can walk blindly into a dark room and come out with the stab wounds of a failed effort.

Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer of Teradata, tells us how he goes about establishing a culture of innovative technology leadership, including why he doesn’t hire based on a particular skill set.

As the world still comes to grips with the tragedy in the United States, one expert in business intelligence argues that a national data warehouse combining all of the law enforcement agencies' criminal activity and suspect data would be a step in the right direction.

They won't be duking it out on pay-per-view any time soon, but the battle wages over who is the true Father of Data Warehousing.

It's time for a new year, and a new focus. What does 2005 have in store through the ever-important eyes of business intelligence? From storage management to enterprise data warehouses, here's what to watch--and what to ignore--in the new year.

You can walk the walk. Make sure you can talk the talk with this guide to BI buzzwords.