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Business Intelligence,

Getting Started with Oracle Data Mining

This blog posting is my first in the area of Data Mining, in particular performing Data Mining using Oracle.  Over the coming months I will be making regular postings in…
Uli Bethke October 20, 2009
Business Intelligence,

Essential skills any BI Consultant should have. Or why a fool with a tool is still a fool.

Today I'm gonna be mean. Before we start though, here is my definition of a BI consultant. In my eyes, a BI consultant is the guy at the frontend of…
Uli Bethke June 26, 2009
Business Intelligence,

Greenplum, MapReduce, and Hadoop

If your job involves processing massive amounts of data you should familiarize yourself with Greenplum, MapReduce, and Hadoop. With 6.5 Petabytes of data eBay runs the world's largest data warehouse…
Uli Bethke June 18, 2009
Business Intelligence,

It's the tool, stupid. Or is it?

Every couple of months or so, they run an article on Business Intelligence in one of the Sunday business papers here in Dublin. The tenor of these articles goes like…
Uli Bethke March 3, 2009
Business Intelligence,

Competitive Business Intelligence: web scraping with Oracle.

In my opinion, one of the trends for Business Intelligence in 2009 (and the years to come) will be the integration of externally available data (data not found within the…
Uli Bethke January 6, 2009
Business Intelligence,

Make a difference to your bottom line with BI

In the first two chapters the authors develop their core argument. BI projects are only successful when they have a positive impact on the bottom line of an organisation. BI…
Uli Bethke December 4, 2008