Business Intelligence professionals are not living in their own island and most of the time they are influenced by general IT trends. ExpertsTown presents them the top ten IT trends here:
One size does not fit all
Browsing the aisles admiring all those shiny irons, drivers and putters, it’s tempting to grab the best-looking or highest-rated sticks, toss them straight into your golf bag, and head for the first tee. But unless you happen to stand 5-foot-9 (for men), with arms of standard length and a swing profile that matches a predetermined plane and speed, your spiffy new set won’t help much. The alternative to buying off-the-rack clubs is to have them custom built by a professional club-fitter.
Cooking with wine is easier than most people realize.
The Wine Institute conducted a study which now reports that not only is wine good for the heart, “it can also help prevent the harmful effects of bacteria and aid digestion.” The study goes on to note that “red and white wine efficiently wipe out bacteria responsible for food poisoning, dysentery and diarrhea.” Drink wine in moderation, but enjoy it to the fullest!
Wine is such a mysterious beverage. We sniff it, quaff it, swizzle it, and then come up with all these wild descriptors: cassis, meadow, leather, mushroom. Where do all these elusive aromas and flavors come from? Partly from the grape, partly from aging in oak, (partly from our imaginations) and partly from tannin. What are tannins?
As if the rules of golf weren’t complicated enough, there’s a whole set of etiquette guidelines golfers are expected to follow as well. And you thought it was tough learning which fork to use with which course at a formal dinner. Proper etiquette is especially important on the putting green.
The language of golf must seem awfully confusing to beginners. Gimmes? Mulligans? Yips? Indeed, golf’s slang terms could nearly fill their own dictionary. We’ll stick with a compact glossary, assuming readers know basic terms like birdie, par and bogey.
From its commercial implementation three decades ago, SQL has grown in to big now. It is not exaggeration to say that the world’s largest software companies like Microsoft, Oracle depend on their SQL / Database server offerings. SQL plays an important role in computer industry today.
ERP software can cover typically aspects from procurement of raw material to distribution and delivery of goods and services. ERP can be described as an integrated information system in a company, servicing the requirements of all the departments in a company. See the complete ERP definition.
Data mining is about bringing out the valued result, predictive information and their pattern concealed in the data bases. The valued result that it brings may be powerful to the company; powerful to allow companies make informed and well researched decisions. Read some data mining examples.
For all its addictive power, golf is an easy game to quit – or to not pick up at all.
In the U.S., a regulation 18-hole round takes a minimum of four hours, not including getting to and from the course, warming up, and perhaps hitting the 19th hole for a drink or two. Add the expense of green and cart fees to the cost of equipment and you’ve got a considerable cash investment, too.
In other words, golf requires spending lots of time and money – two things most folks are short on these days.
SQL is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. This language is used to access / communicate with a database. A database is an organised collection of data usually in digital form. Though SQL was originally developed by IBM, and first made commercial by Relational Systems (now part of Oracle), almost all database software vendors support SQL while adding their own SQL extensions.
Performance Management is considered to be an integral part of Business Intelligence (BI). Corporate Performance Management has been defined as ‘set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It is a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance.‘ Let us have a look at some of the processes that form part of Corporate Performance Management. If we do a walk through in the corporate environment, we can experience the use cases and examples in real time.
There are three primary techniques used in data mining. They are:
