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Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor: Mark Madsen

Mark Madsen Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a consulting and research firm focused on business intelligence, data integration and data management. He is a principal author of Clickstream Data Warehousing and speaks about data warehousing and emerging technology. Write him at mmadsen0@yahoo.com.
Blog: Natural Insight
by Mark Madsen

Key Differences Between Data Integration and App Integration
There's been a blurring of the lines between data integration in the BI environment and in the operational environment. You used buy ETL tools for the data warehouse while hand coding data integration for OLTP projects. Problems arise when vendors obscure the differences between data and application integration to broaden the appeal of their tools...
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03.23.2009
Patent Lawsuits Plague ETL Vendors
The biggest patent lawsuit ever to hit the ETL market is probably one you never heard of: JuxtaComm versus virtually every company in the market – a total of 16 defendants... Several ETL tools existed years before this patent was granted, so all the defendants are working together to fight this lawsuit. Actually, all the companies but one: Oracle...
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03. 4.2009
The True End User Experience for BI
This video will help you understand the essence of the end-user experience for business intelligence, and the message is delivered in ten seconds. Keep it in mind as you deploy BI more broadly...
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12.15.2008
Teradata's Tectonic Shift
I was sorry to see last week's Teradata user conference come to a close... For me the biggest surprise was how far Teradata has shifted from their dogmatic view that an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is the only solution to BI problems and that you therefore only need one type of platform to meet these needs.
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10.21.2008


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