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Business Intelligence Journal

First Quarter 2008, Volume 13, Number 1

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• What’s New in BI
  Hugh J. Watson and Paul Gray
• Reuse It or Lose It: Achieving Business Intelligence Efficiency
  Jonathan G. Geiger, Abdul Rahman, and Bruce Barth
• Agile Data Warehousing with Integrated Sandboxing
  Stephen Brobst, Michael McIntire, and Edward Rado
• Q&A: Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts
  Wayne W. Eckerson and Richard P. Sherman
• BI Case Study: The Paper Chase: IBM Global Financing
  Stephen Swoyer
• Embedded or Conventional BI: Determining the Right Combination of BI for Your Business
  Barry Klawans
• BI Experts’ Perspective: Exploring Web 2.0
  Scott Barnes, Richard Hackathorn, Dan Power, and Tracy Ring
• Designing a Performance Layer: Aggregates and Derived Tables
  Chris Adamson
• Building a Best-Fit Data Warehouse: Why Understanding Physical Database Structures Matters
  John O’Brien
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Fourth Quarter 2007, Volume 12, Number 4

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• The Believability of Data
  Hugh J. Watson
• Tailoring Performance Dashboard Content
  Ross Morrissey
• BI Case Study: Timely Data is Sweet Deal at Cumberland Packing
  Linda L. Briggs
• BI Experts’ Perspective: Developing a BPM System
  Wayne Eckerson, Jim Hill, Anthony Politano, Craig Schiff
• BI Case Study: Supply Chain Tool Creates Healthy Data for Hospitals
  Linda L. Briggs
• Breaking through with Business Process Discovery
  Chris Houck
• Taking the Lead: Building BI Activism
  Patrick Bolin
• Q&A: Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP
  Philip Russom
• BI Impact: The Assimilation of Business Intelligence into Core Business Processes
  Mohamed Elbashir and Steve Williams
• Inside Enterprise Decision Management (Book Excerpt)
  James Taylor and Neil Raden
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Third Quarter 2007, Volume 12, Number 3

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Enterprise Agility and Mature BI Capabilities
  Hugh J. Watson and Barbara H. Wixom
• Q&A: Best Practices in Operational BI
  Wayne W. Eckerson
• Data Profiling: The Diagnosis for Better Enterprise Information
  Tony Fisher
• Data Warehouse Appliances: Asking the Hard Questions
  Jesse Fountain
• Determining Information Requirements for BI Applications
  Mohammed R. Behrangi, Ahmad Fattolahi, and Hugh J. Watson
• BI Case Study: Virginia e-Procurement System Sets the Standard for States
  Linda L. Briggs
• Nearline and Archived Storage in the Data Warehouse
  Arthur G. Ritchie
• BI Experts’ Perspective: Growing Your Data Warehouse
  Celia Fuller, Jim Gallo, Evan Levy, Todd Pearsall, and Anne Marie Reynolds
• Leveraging Relational Databases with an Integrated BI Platform
  Michael L. Gonzales
• BI Case Study: Software-as-a-Service BI Drives Growth for Car Equipment Retailer
  Linda L. Briggs
• Winners: Best Practices Awards 2007
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Second Quarter 2007, Volume 12, Number 2

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Understanding BI Users’ Value Proposition
  Hugh J. Watson
• Enterprise BI Search: Implementation Considerations
  Rado Kotorov and Jake Freivald
• Taking a User-Centric Approach to the Information Challenge
  Harriet Fryman
• BI Experts’ Perspective: Data Warehouse Appliances
  Rob Armstrong, Scott Barnes, Mark Madsen, Philip Russom
• Architecting a Dimensional Document Warehouse
  Karen Corral, David Schuff, Gregory Schymik, and Robert St. Louis
• The Future of Data
  John C. Nicoli
• BI Case Study: Cleaner Data Allows Better Policing
  Linda L. Briggs
• Honey, I Deployed the Prototype: The Purposes and Perils of Prototypes
  Paul Johnson
• Shifting the BI Paradigm with In-Memory Database Technologies
  John J. Gill
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

First Quarter 2007, Volume 12, Number 1

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• What's New in BI
  Paul Gray, Hugh J. Watson
• Enterprise Data Modeling: Lost Art or Essential Science?
  Larissa Moss
• BI Case Study: USF Health Teaches Users the Value of Business Intelligence
  Linda L. Briggs
• Key Technologies Enabling a Seismic Shift in Enterprise Data Management
  Jeff Reagan, Ian Rowlands
• Experts' Perspective: BI Center of Excellence
  Jonathan G. Geiger, Brian Hill, Lisa Loftis, Jeffrey S. Ton
• The ABCs of Master Data Management: Architecture, Business Case, and Customer
  Anurag Wadehra
• BI Case Study: In Retail BI, One Size Doesn’t Fit All
  Linda L. Briggs
• The Shift to On-Demand Business Intelligence
  Ken Rudin
• Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth (excerpt)
  Jill Dyche, Evan Levy
• Real-Time BI: Drivers, Deployments, and Decisions
  Robert Stackowiak
• BI StatShots
  Wayne W. Eckerson

Business Intelligence Journal

Fourth Quarter 2006, Volume 11, Number 4

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Three Targets for Data Warehousing
  Hugh J. Watson
• A Performance Management Primer: Why You Need More Than a Dashboard to Manage Your Strategy
  Kirby Lunger
• Saving Time and Money — Why Open-Source BI Makes
  Barry Klawans
• Experts’ Perspective: Federation and EDW
  Philip On and Frederic Vanborre, Kim Stanick, and John Williams
• Building a Data-Centric Organization
  Majid Abai
• Best Practices in Building a Data Warehouse Quickly
  Doug Barrett and Neil Barton
• Linking Information Architecture to Enterprise Strategy
  Peter Graham
• Data Monitoring: Add Controls to Your Data Governance and Compliance Programs
  Tony Fisher
• Winners: Best Practices Awards 2006
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Third Quarter 2006, Volume 11, Number 3

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• BI and Data Warehousing in Universities
  Hugh J. Watson
• Four Strategies to Broaden BI Adoption
  Harriet Fryman
• Your BI Competency Center: A Blueprint for Successful Deployment
  Aiman Zeid
• Taking the Repetition Out of Research and Development: The BI Collaboration Approach
  Mark N. Frolick and Mark von Oven
• BI Case Study: Power Company Draws New Energy from BI Solution
  Linda L. Briggs
• Maximizing the Return on OLAP and Data Mining Analysts
  M. Kathryn Brohman and Hugh J. Watson
• Driving Decision Automation with Location Intelligence
  Ed Gandorf and James Taylor
• BI Case Study: From Short Stack to Competitive Advantage: IHOP's Pursuit of Data Quality
  Mathew Schwartz
• Business Intelligence Deployment Strategies: A Pragmatic Pattern-Based Approach
  Paul Zangaglia
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Second Quarter 2006, Volume 11, Number 2

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Dashboards and Scorecards
  Hugh J. Watson
• Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data Using Text Tagging and Annotation
  Sreekumar Sukumaran and Ashish Sureka
• Data Quality for Enterprise Risk Management
  Vikram Ramchandra and Sreedhar Srikant
• Experts' Perspective: Mobilizing Business Intelligence
  Howard Dresner and James Thomas
• Beyond the Dashboard: Making Better Decisions
  Gabriel Fuchs
• Operationalizing Business Intelligence—Turning Insight into Action
  Bennett Indart
• Closing the Business Process Management Execution Gap
  Russell Keziere
• Increasing BI Adoption: An Enterprise Approach
  Anupam Manglik
• BI Bookshelf
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

First Quarter 2006, Volume 11, Number 1

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Which Data Warehouse Architecture Is Most Successful?
  Thilini Ariyachandra and Hugh J. Watson
• Improving Query Performance in Data Warehouses
  Alex Rosenberg
• Crossing the Analytics Chasm
  Rahul Asthana, PhD
• Data Warehousing in Real Time
  Sami Akbay
• Experts' Perspective
  Ripley Maddock and James Taylor
• BI/DW Salaries Remain Strong
  Mark Hammond
• New Ways to Organize the BI Team
  Wayne Eckerson
• The Importance of Enterprise Information Management for Business Intelligence
  Philip On
• Leverage Complex Event Processing to Improve Operational Performance
  Alan Lundberg
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Performance Dashboards
  Wayne Eckerson
• BI StatShots

Business Intelligence Journal

Fall 2005, Volume 10, Number 4

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Are Data Warehouses Prone to Failure?
  Hugh J. Watson
• A Survey of Data Warehousing Success Issues
  Mark I. Hwang and Hongjiang Xu
• Changes Shaping the Future of Business Intelligence
  David R. Johnson
• BI Case Study: Louisiana Battles Food Stamp Fraud
  Mathew Schwartz
• Real-time Visibility: Instant Insight into Business Events
  
• Glenn Peipert
• Managing Large-scale Business Intelligence Solutions
  Mark Van de Wiel
• BI Case Study: RFID Keeps Customer Service Stellar, ROI Strong
  Stephen Swoyer
• BI Experts' Perspective: Managed Services
  Jeff Eckhaus, Tim Feetham, Todd Pearsall, and Anne Marie Reynolds
• Business Intelligence Solution Evolution: Adoption and Use
  Susan Foster, Paul Hawking, and Andrew Stein
• Winners: Best Practices Awards 2005
  
• BI Statshots
  

Business Intelligence Journal

Summer 2005, Volume 10, Number 3

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Real Time: The Next Generation of Decision-Support Data Management
  Hugh J. Watson
• Building a Metadata-Driven Enterprise: A Holistic Approach
  Vivek Mehra
• Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Performance Dashboards
  Wayne W. Eckerson
• How Mature Is Your Data Management Environment?
  Tony Fisher
• BI Bookshelf
  
• Navigating the Decision-Making Process through Automation
  Bennett Indart
• BI Experts' Perspective
  Maureen Clarry, Celia Fuller, and Monica Tyson
• BI Case Study: Betting Big on Reporting Success
  Stephen Swoyer
• Defining and Measuring KPIs and Metrics
  Michael Brooks
• Security and Privacy Concerns in the Data Warehouse Environment
  Raymond J. Elson and Rey LeClerc
• When Business Intelligence Equals Business Value
  Lawrence De Voe and Ken Neal
• BI Statshots
  

Business Intelligence Journal

Spring 2005, Volume 10, Number 2

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• The BI Ideal: A Single Enterprisewide Data Access Tool
  Hugh J. Watson
• Harnessing Visualization: Achieving Situational Awareness by Capturing and Sharing Thoughts
  Dr. Steven Roth
• BI Case Study: Tracking BI Success
  Stephen Swoyer
• Key Factors in Selecting a Data Warehouse Architecture
  Thilini Ariyachandra and Hugh J. Watson
• BI Experts' Perspective
  Stephen Brobst, Evan Levy, and Craig Muzilla
• Ten Ways to Make the Most of Your BI Consulting Partnership
  Kirby Lunger
• From Information Production to Consumption
  Rob Cardwell
• Comprehensive Performance Management
  Dan Ross
• BI Bookshelf
  
• Ten Steps to Total Data Quality
  Len Dubois
• BI Statshots
  

Business Intelligence Journal

Winter 2005, Volume 10, Number 1

• From the Editor
  James E. Powell
• Sorting Out What's New in Decision Support
  Hugh J. Watson
• Keys to a Successful BPM Initiative
  Craig Schiff
• Extending Enterprise BI Capabilities: New Patterns for Data Integration
  Anupam Manglik and Vivek Mehra
• Dashboard Design: Beyond Meters, Gauges, and Traffic Lights
  Stephen Few
• The Problem with Pivot Tables
  Peter O'Donnell
• BI Case Study: Data Warehouse Survives Corporate Restructuring
  Mathew Schwartz
• Experts' Perspective
  Karen Corral, Jane Griffin, and Murray E. Jennex
• BI Bookshelf
  Dave Wells
• Business Intelligence through Text Mining
  Josh Froelich, Sergei Ananyan, and David L. Olson
• The Entity-Relationship Diagram as Query Tool
  Ronald Gage Allan
• Closed-Loop Balance Control
  Brian Hether
• BI Statshots
  Hugh J. Watson

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