Data Conversion

If you've been looking for a set of Business Intelligence (BI) tools that you can run on the mainframe, you need wait no longer.

My keynote for the Orlando TDWI conference was all about the future. Instead of trying to predict exactly what we would be doing in five years' time, I talked about why it's hard to know that, why the people who do it (us industry analysts) are so often wrong, what we can look at to guess the shape of the future in our market, and some examples of smart people doing work that's already in the next

Rumors of Business Objects sale have been going around for years, including a decent one last Monday, although fingering Microsoft as a likely buyer is kind of thick-headed given Microsoft's BI announcements and product lines. That looked more like an attempt at misdirection than anything real. They're

The panel session on BI futures at the TDWI Executive Summit was a fun way to wrap up the day. I like to see the heavier content lighten up before breaking for a reception. Since half the presentation was demos on web sites and mashups, and a quarter was talking, the slides are mostly useful as a reminder of what was said and as a pointer to some of the sites. Slides

We just finished recording a podcast for IBM DeveloperWorks which will be up in the next few days so I was looking to

Here's a link to coverage of the mashup contest winner (me and Renat - not often I get to see "me" and "winner" in the same sentence) over at ZDnet: Mashup culture shatters crusty, stodgy old approach to business app dev They did a nice job with the video of David Berlind interviewing me showing a walkthrough

Mashup Camp is done and we came away with 4 of the prizes from the IBM (and Dapper, Kapow, StrikeIron, Accuweather) mashup building competition. Not a clean sweep but we did our best. While sourcing information for the mashups, one thing really surprised me. Yahoo! generates really poor HTML that's hard to parse. We had identified data for which there were

I came across this hilarious, profane 23 minute video walkthrough of a Super Mario Brothers level while browsing for material for a presentation on game mechanics and software design (NSFW without headphones) . My internal dialogue when evaluating software is just like

Since late last year few developments have been happening that can soon change the Business Intelligence domain scenario.

What prevents the convergence of functionality of OLAP AND OLTP tools