Welcome to the latest edition of the Business Intelligence Network UK newsletter!
In this issue, my article, Developing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Business Intelligence, discusses what is involved in developing a service-oriented architecture for business intelligence in order to make it easier to access business intelligence from processes, applications, portals and search engines – inside and outside the enterprise.
In the other article, Using the Data Warehouse to Determine the Profitability of the Insurance Company, Richard Brayshaw, our Insurance Channel leader, explains that with business intelligence, the pre-tax profitability of an insurance company – as a whole, or of its various components and business activities – can be determined.
I encourage you to use the Business Intelligence Network as your premier source for business intelligence, performance management, information quality and data warehousing information. Please invite your peers to visit the site frequently and subscribe to our newsletter.
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Developing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Business Intelligence
by Mike Ferguson
BI and data integration services can be created today on a number of BI platforms and data integration products. The challenge is what to build and for what business reasons.
Using the Data Warehouse to Determine the Profitability of the Insurance Company
by Richard Brayshaw
This article discusses, at a relatively high level, how a data warehouse can be used to determine an insurance company's profitability at a point in time.
Understanding the High Cost of Low Quality Product Data
27 June at 7 p.m. GMT
What are you doing today to ensure that all of your data is of the highest level of quality? Attend this free web seminar to hear Jill Dyché and Evan Levy explain how data quality drives your ability to master product data.
Register today!
Three Steps to Successful Data Governance
28 June at 6 p.m. GMT
Organizations can accelerate business growth, lower costs and reduce regulatory risk by treating data like an asset. The key is effective data governance. In this web seminar, learn three steps to get started.
Register today!
The Pillars of Master Data Management: Data Profiling, Data Integration and Data Quality
On-Demand
David Loshin outlines his findings on master data management and explains why data profiling, data integration and data quality tools are the three pillars upon which today’s master data management solutions are supported.
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Did you know that the wealth of content on the Business Intelligence Network is also presented in specific industry sectors, allowing you to navigate directly to the channel that represents your industry? Each channel features timely articles, news, events and other resources, and each channel leader is a seasoned practitioner, well-versed in the challenges and solutions for that industry. The featured channel this week is Retail, led by John Hobson. John is Managing Director of The Planning Factory Ltd. and has worked on business intelligence and planning systems throughout Europe and Asia. His 25-year career includes positions with retailers House of Fraser, Tesco and Jaeger where he was Retail Operations Controller. He has also worked as a senior consultant specialising in retail planning systems design and implementation for Kurt Salmon Associates. Before setting up The Planning Factory Ltd. in 1996, he worked as Decision Support Systems Product Manager for Pennine Retail.
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