Jun 6, 2013

Interview with Sam Somashekar: Intelligently Using Cloud for Business Growth

By |Business Insights, Cloud Computing, Technical Insights, Tips and Tricks|

We recently interviewed Chateaux Cloud Expert, Sam Somashekar, on the different ways organizations can use the cloud to achieve business growth. Sam Somashekar, Chateaux Cloud Expert Sam began his career at CA Technologies as a software developer, where he eventually brought his extensive software engineering experience to the strategic and tactical level [...]

May 20, 2013

Project SHINE

By |Business Insights, Chateaux News|

Don Floyd, Senior Enterprise Architect Chateaux recently completed a transformative BI strategy and implementation project for a global auto-care products company. The client was going through a challenging transition period after splitting from their parent company and needed a coherent strategy to start the implementation process for business intelligence, reporting, and analytics. [...]

Mar 28, 2013

Chateaux Technologist Spearheads Innovative Reporting and Printing Solution Project

By |Business Insights, Chateaux News, Technical Insights|

Vijay Rathna, Senior BI Technologist and Application Architect Vijay Rathna, Senior BI Technologist and Application Architect, is leading a major project for Chateaux at an electronics manufacturer to integrate an enterprise imaging platform (EIP) with the client’s existing ERP printing applications. The client prints thousands of contracts, customer orders, invoices, and other [...]

Oct 11, 2012

Frameworks Is #1 (Part 2)

By |Business Insights, Technical Insights|

By Hugo Toledo, Senior Business Intelligence Architect In the last post, Frameworks is #1, we discussed how checklists and their big brothers, frameworks, help you develop new solutions by providing a structure for identifying and closing gaps. In this installment, we’ll go into one of our preferred frameworks, TDWI’s MAD (Measure, Analyze, Drill) Framework, and [...]

Oct 3, 2012

Frameworks Is #1

By |Business Insights, Technical Insights|

By Hugo Toledo, Senior Business Intelligence Architect, BI Answer Man I meant to say that. You know, as in “The topic of frameworks is paramount”? Keep reading. This will make more sense later. First, though, a word about checklists: under-appreciated. Think about it. Life may be quite unpleasant without the assiduous use of checklists. For example, [...]

Sep 19, 2012

Trust In BI

By |Business Insights|

By Hugo Toledo, Senior Business Intelligence Architect Trust in BI is typically not a technical problem but a human one: people don't always do what they are supposed to do. Technology can only go so far. How one harnesses (or wields) a tool often has far more of an effect on an organization than does [...]

Aug 24, 2012

Breaking the Barriers Part 2: Overcoming Data Ownership Issues and Related Politics

By |Business Insights, Tips and Tricks|

In the last post of our Breaking the Barriers series, we discussed a corporate culture based on silos, the top barrier to coordinating data management according to a TDWI survey published in the Business Intelligence Journal.  In the next installment of our Breaking the Barriers series, Hugo Toledo discusses the second most common barrier:  data [...]

Aug 22, 2012

Breaking the Barriers: Creating Data Management Practices in a Siloed Organization

By |Business Insights, Tips and Tricks|

By Pete Childs, Business Intelligence Technologist According to a recent survey conducted by TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute), the most-cited barrier to creating coordinated data management practices within an organization is a corporate culture based on information silos. Here are the complete survey results: Source: Unified Data Management, TDWI Best Practices Report, Q2 [...]

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