warehouses in comment and analysis
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Prior to joining the retailer, Arthurs, who has a marketing degree from Lancaster University, spent seven years at electrical retailer Comet as head of IT - with an IT remit covering its stores, warehouses, after sales... [11 Jun 2008]
Go real-time with your data
Comment Whilst this latency is generally acceptable for trend analysis and forecasting, traditional data warehouses simply can't keep pace with today's BI requirements for fast and accurate data. Data warehouses... [15 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment This means that any data analysis is limited to predefined cubes which may not reflect the business process today, and multiple data warehouses also ultimately hinders the view of a 'single version of truth'. [01 Dec 2006]
Analysis: CRM - get involved
Comment Retailers especially began to construct huge data warehouses and even small corner shops started launching their own loyalty card schemes. Recent developments, though, do favour smaller players. When the dot-com bubble... [23 May 2006]
CRM: Don't forget about privacy
Comment By the 1970s many thinkers had a concern about government and corporations building massive data warehouses monitoring every aspect of an individual's life and tracking and analysing that person's every step. [13 Oct 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Playing cards with the Iraqi information minister
Comment T-shirts can be sold before they've even been ordered, printed or distributed to warehouses or delivery centres. The first victim of war is the truth. And then the wallet. Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed... [17 Apr 2003]
BT must sell Openworld soon
Comment TV adverts slot into place and promotional CDs - the device that effectively built Freeserve, back in the day - are in shops, with millions in warehouses ready to replace them. BT is in the firing line again. [03 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Spend on technology, be successful
Comment The received wisdom was that purpose built distribution warehouses were needed, along with complex and highly automated web sites. Many commentators attributed the late nineties US economic boom to just that. [25 Mar 2002]
Web host gives up the ghost
Comment Now there are warehouses full of shovels and a dwindling supply of miners to buy them. The web hosting world has seen a bankruptcy and a desperate cash bid this week. But as Ben King reports, things are going to get... [31 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: User groups name and shame, safe PDAs, and IBM's Linux gamble
Comment It was the industry downturn that set the ball rolling on this - or, more correctly, started the unsold inventory stock pilling in the warehouses. A key advantage of cross-vendor user groups is that they can reveal... [18 Jun 2001]
Sun cold in the channel
Comment Their enthusiasm to put the 'dot' in 'dot-com' has left their warehouses full of high-end servers and routers looking for homes. First to go were the design agencies, over-stretched and fat from life on huge marketing... [27 Apr 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Apple has problems - so what's new?
Comment In particular, sales of the new G4 cube have been poor, and unsold Macs of all types have been piling up in warehouses. Apple's problem is simple: it hasn't sold enough Macs. Despite the runaway success of the iMac... [18 Jan 2001]
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