Over at the IBM Data Warehousing & Analytics blog, Joseph Ng discusses the major OLAP architectures and InfoSphere Warehouse’s Cubing Services feature. Joseph also provides a long list of free resources for Cubing Services. Check it out.
Data warehousing best practices with DB2
Congratulations to Kate. She just wrote her first post on the IBM Data Warehousing & Analytics blog. You can read it here.
Free IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 Redbook
Just released: InfoSphere Warehouse: A Robust Infrastructure for Business Intelligence
Here’s the abstract:
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication we describe and demonstrate Version 9.7 of IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse. InfoSphere Warehouse is a comprehensive platform with all the functionality required for developing robust infrastructure for business intelligence solutions. It enables companies to access and analyze operational and historical information, whether structured or unstructured, to gain business insight for improved decision making. InfoSphere Warehouse solutions simplify the processes of developing and maintaining a data warehousing infrastructure and can significantly enhance the time to value for business analytics.
The InfoSphere Warehouse platform provides a fully integrated environment built around IBM DB2® 9.7 server technology on Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms, as well as System z®. Common user interfaces support application development, data modeling and mapping, SQL transformation, online application processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality from virtually all types of information.
Composed of a component-based architecture, it extends the DB2 data warehouse with design-side tooling and runtime infrastructure for OLAP, data mining, inLine analytics and intra-warehouse data movement and transformation, on a common platform.
Thanks to the authors: Chuck Ballard, Nicole Harris, Andrew Lawrence, Meridee Lowry, Andy Perkins, and Sundari Voruganti.
The components of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
While reviewing the web traffic analytics report for this blog, I noticed a number of visitors looking for information about the components included in IBM InfoSphere Warehouse.
Here are two links that provide the information you’re looking for:
Helping Others Get Things Done
As a loyal reader, you already know that I have been using the ideas from David Allen’s Getting Things Done book for many years. What you may not know is that I have also been helping many of my IBM co-workers discover GTD and get things done.
Like most knowledge workers, my friends and co-workers struggle with tremendous email volumes and balancing heavy workloads. In my spare time, I developed a presentation that provides describes how I use Lotus Notes and GTD to become my productive.
ProductCamp Toronto Spring 2010
Tips for your Customer Advisory Council
Over at Rocket Watcher, April Dunford has posted 2 great articles on creating and running a customer advisory council. The links are below:
Free trial of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7
A free trial of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse is now available.
You can download it here.
The trial allows you to evaluate the Enterprise Edition of InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 for 90-days at no cost. All features are enabled in the trial.
Egosurfing: How to “google yourself” automatically with Google Alerts
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
- William S. Burroughs
Whether you call it egosurfing, egosearching, or vanity searching, you have probably tried “googling yourself” at least once. That is, you typed your name into your favourite search engine to see what results appeared.
If you want to keep regular tabs on those search results, it can be a annoying to re-type your name each time. To prevent writer’s cramp, you can turn to a free service called Google Alerts. Google Alert provides automatic email updates on search results for keywords that you provide.
It is very easy to create a Google Alert for your name. The instructions are below:
