From what you’ve seen in the field, why do data warehouse projects fail?

For the past 16 years I’ve been involved in the data warehousing / business intelligence industry.  I’ve seen an amazing amount of progress and yet, nearly every day I meet with a potential customer that has fallen victim to one or more of the major pitfalls inherent to data warehouse initiatives.  Here are some tips to avoid common mistakes. Read complete post »

Moving applications to the cloud has changed from a risk that few enterprise companies could justify to, in some cases, a logical alternative to self-hosting an application.

NoetixViews Workbench has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious American Business Awards (ABA) in the category for New Product or Service of the Year – Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution.  More than 3,200 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.  Finalists were chosen by more than 140 business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May. Read complete post »

The Bloor Group recently invited Noetix and other select vendors who use the term Operational Intelligence (OI) to brief them on their technology and show a demo of their solution.  Bloor then created an online OI Market Directory listing of the companies which includes a recorded demo of each solution. Read complete post »

With operations in more than 70 countries, UTi Worldwide Inc. is a complex organization primarily focused on ‘freight forwarding’ – shipping customer freight across oceans and continents. Read complete post »

Noetix is excited to be appearing on this week’s episode of The Briefing Room – a live Web show focused on the how and why of today’s enterprise software products.  Each session features an innovative vendor who gives a detailed technical presentation, followed by a respected analyst who offers industry insights and then conducts a live, unscripted briefing. Read complete post »

As the senior director for product development at Noetix, where do you see opportunities for innovation within BI products?

The biggest areas in which I see opportunities for innovation are: Broader and better support for heterogeneous data sources, embracing the mobile user base regardless of on-premise or cloud-based deployment, more predictive analytics that are geared toward real-time decision making, addressing the ever growing need to include social media, and even making devices we use and rely on today smarter through the use of BI. Imagine appliances that are semi-self aware and can inform you of pending maintenance and provide information about how they’re used, cars that can let you know of upcoming traffic, adverse road conditions, impending storms, etc. And even toys that will interact with and help educate our children in real-time. The primary point is that we’re headed for another information explosion where even the everyday users of systems will be provided with, and the beneficiaries of, analytics done across vast pockets of information. The innovations surrounding the use of what’s called ‘Big Data’ today are small and will pale in comparison to the many innovations in the areas that I’ve listed. Rest assured that every innovation we see between now and then will itself lead to even more opportunities. It’s an exciting time to be in the BI space. Read complete post »

Noetix has introduced Noetix Generator for QlikView, a solution that automates and greatly simplifies the process of setting up QlikView to access the data structures within Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Read complete post »

COLLABORATE 13 Day 2 was certainly an interesting one – hopefully everyone is staying warm!  Here we are on Day 3 already – the show has sure gone by in a flash.  Be sure to visit Noetix in booth #909 today for your final chances to win thousands of dollars in prizes!  While you are there, check out some cool new things that we’ve been working on, including Noetix Generator for QlikView, Noetix BI, and NoetixViews Workbench. Read complete post »

COLLABORATE 13 Day 1 was a success! Last night was OAUG’s Welcome Reception in the Exhibitor Showcase. We had a flood of people and gave away lots of our cool USB pens! Be sure to visit Noetix in booth #909 for more chances to win thousands of dollars in prizes! Read complete post »