Pat Sweet identifies key trends in the data warehousing and BI market helped by Jeff Herman of Blueplate Consulting, Rob Badila of Xansa, Pierre Yves Commanay at Sopra and independent consultant Keith Roberts.
Hitting the data hot spots - Part 3 | Part
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Rob Badila: go for innovative portal
design
“Innovative portal design enables the essential KPIs for
the particular piece of business for which the manager is
responsible to be presented along with other information.
This provides a single, coherent view whilst affording the
manager the capability to drill-down into the data warehouse
to obtain additional details or views on other aspects of
the business,” agrees Badila.
But Commanay is more ambivalent about the question of the
user interface, arguing that some environments are not suitable
for thin-client users unfamiliar with IT, while highly sophisticated
users may best be serviced by alternatives such as PDAs.
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