Sunday, May 27, 2007

Oracle BI or Business Objects?

Which tool to use - Oracle BI (Siebel Analytics) OR Business Objects? Until now Oracle BI has been good for dashboards and Business Objects has been good for ad-hoc queries.

Off late, both of them are trying to enter each others market. Which one will live on for the next 10 years is a mystery.

Web 2.0 and BI?

Will Web 2.0 impact BI?

How does BI take advantage of this new trend where content is provided on the fly by the customers. BI does have a trend called "
pervasive intelligence"


Good video from KSU about Web 2.0 =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
If you are interested further = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYcS_VpoWJk

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Which database to use Oracle or Teradata?

First and underlying resource of a BI stack is the database. Which database is better - Oracle or Teradata? Does it matter? Do current projects need pre-planning for this? Are the tools ready to support Teradata?