Oct 7, 2010
Hi recently read an article which talked about what data warehouse was and how it relates to everyday business. While Data warehousing can be extremly benefitual when it comes to the organization of a sucessful business, it can also be harmful if intentionally missed used as it was in the article i read. The CIA [...]
Oct 6, 2010
To maximize profits in today’s competitive market, the winner is not the company with the biggest store or most capital, but the company with the most up to date information. A great example of this is the oil companies. They have to know to up to date information to stay competitive and to maximize profits [...]
Oct 6, 2010
The article I found is about Microsoft PowerPivot, one of the new Excel features included in Office 2010. The concept of this new tool is to help managers to build their own reports, and thus they become less dependent on the IT staff. It runs similarly as a table pivot, but it is able to [...]
Oct 6, 2010
The article I chose is on the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in 2010. In the article the rankings of the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the United State were given according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Neighborhood Scout is the company that uses data and information from the FBI [...]
Oct 6, 2010
Making wine has come a long way from the days of crushing grapes in an oak barrel. Today, a wine maker in Sonoma now uses technology to aid in his wine making. Leo McCloskey uses an off-site data warehouse to store digital recipes of the wines he produces. It has about 35,000 different wines on [...]
Oct 6, 2010
The article I read I found on Oracle Magazine. Apparently Oracle has developed a Oracle Exadata Database Machine. They introduced it to the world at the Oracle Open World, San Francisco September 20, 2010. The Oracle Exadata Machine is really an integration of software and hardware by Oracle. They feel if they own both the [...]
Oct 4, 2010
The article that I found takes a look at how some companies are not taking the correct precautions in protecting valuable and high risk data. Chapter 6.1 takes a thorough approach on Databases and Data Warehouses. A small section in the book emphasizes how important it is to have increased information security or data could [...]
Oct 4, 2010
I first heard about my article on the news Sunday night regarding Verizon Wireless and I was able to find more information about it in the New York Times. As of today Verizon has announced that it’s going to pay back $90 million in refunds to all customers who were wrongfully charged in their monthly [...]
Oct 4, 2010
The article that I found talks about the company Gracenote. Gracenote used their Global Media Database to power many applications today. Gracenote uses that database to power Itunes and is used when a user downloads a Cd into their library. Gracenote’s MusicID is used to automatically insert the names of the tracks and artists from [...]
Oct 4, 2010
The article that I found talks about I.B.M. and their recent purchase of a data warehouse company called Netezza. The article was published on September 20, 2010 and I found it in The New York Times. Although the purchase made by I.B.M. is recent, many other companies have made purchases of data warehouse or business [...]
Oct 4, 2010
Chapter 6.2 Discusses Data Warehousing fundamentals; what it is and how they are used. The article I read was about Asset Intelligence (AI) aquiering Teradata’s platform. AI has based its new enterprise analytics service on a Teradata Data Warehouse appliance platform. They will be using this to better help “over-the-road” freight carriers, by eliminating blind [...]
Oct 4, 2010
I have found an article that explains how Oracle does their business during the time period where sales on databases were falling about 22%. Oracle’s overall sales revenue actually fell 5% during that time period. They deal with sales of databases licenses and applications for many companies or organizations. Oracle is “the largest supplier of [...]
Oct 2, 2010
Michael Berlin Chapter 6 – 6.2 Data Warehouse I was able to find a great article about Data Warehousing at stores.org, the information is how “Blockbuster Aims To Improve its Customer Communications.” Blockbuster’s plan is to use Data Warehousing to collect customer information on how they buy or rent items in the Blockbuster stores. [...]
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