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Quick Takes for the Week of May 25


May 29: Intelligent Enterprise’s Doug Henschen reports on a presentation by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch vice president Jay Morreale at an IDC’s Business Intelligence and Analytics Forum earlier this month in New York City. Morreale argues that BI will play an increasingly central role in tracking the health of companies and other vital tasks if it breaks down silos between discrete bodies of data. He says that procedures and platforms must be used that broaden the sources of this data and extend analysis and discovery capabilities.

May 28: There is nothing particularly surprising in this Enterprise Systems’ Q and A with Birst Founder and CEO Brad Peters. The company offers on-demand business intelligence, and writer Linda Briggs does a good enough job of leading Peters through an explanation of the approaches’ virtues. The piece can be used by a company considering a deployment as a precise and universal idea of what BI-as-a-service is.

May 27: This unsigned post at Infonitive: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Strategies looks at the differences between operational and analytical master data management. Essentially, operational MDM is the management of often basic data between two systems. Analytical MDM is a more active process of reconciling, rationalizing and organizing data and is associated with compliance and business performance efforts.

–Carl Weinschenk