Profile of Doug Henschen

Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps

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Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.

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Gartner BI Summit 2008: The Next Generation of Innovation

3/31/2008
Decision making as core competency, emerging technologies as BI enablers and changes in the BI market itself are core topics at this week's Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago. Analyst Kurt Schlegel explains the trends and business drivers.
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Gartner BI Summit 2008: Q&A With Howard Dresner

3/30/2008
In a preview of his keynote presentation at this week's Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, former analyst Howard Dresner talks about his new book, the convergence of BI and process management, and what it takes to get to the next level of performance management.
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Natural Language Query: Old Answer for 'New' BI Opportunity

3/28/2008
As combinations of business intelligence and search technology are emerging, Progress Software is reviving a simpler approach: turning natural language queries into SQL code.
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The 'Secret Sauce' of BPM Success

3/24/2008
The business process management market is heating up, and a new report reveals that centers of excellence are the key ingredient of deployment success.
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SAS Acquires Text Mining Firm, Upgrades Core Platform

3/20/2008
Responding to competitive threats, SAS buys Teragram for its natural language processing, categorization and search technologies.
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Coldwater Creek Grows With Location Intelligence

3/17/2008
Women's clothier relies on geospatial analysis to track customers and avoid overlaps as it adds more than 60 retail locations per year.
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Routine Fraud Detection Fingered Spitzer

3/12/2008
"Follow the money." This approach to investigation, applied by criminal prosecutors going back before Eliot Ness and made famous as a line in the movie "All the President's Men," is exactly how now-ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was tied to a high-end prostitution ring. In this case it was fraud detection technology, of the kind routinely applied by banks in money laundering investigations, that led directly to Spitzer and to his resignation today.
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Cognos and SPSS Partner on Predictive Analytics

3/12/2008
Cognos fills gap in portfolio while SPSS gains another powerful ally and a leg up on SAS.
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SAP Claims Performance Management Gains

3/10/2008
"Over the past several months, more than 100 customers worldwide purchased SAP solutions for enterprise performance management with the intention to replace Hyperion solutions from Oracle." SAP heralded this announcement late last month as a big milestone, but after reviewing the facts, I'm thinking the number sounds low. I'd also observe that it's a bit too early to be talking about "unifying the full range of financial and operational processes in a single stack," as claimed in the press relea
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SaaS-Based BI Helps Welch's Out of a Reporting Jam

3/6/2008
Manufacturer bypasses company standard business intelligence suite in favor of on-demand transportation and logistics reporting.
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Column-Store Databases and DW Appliances: How to Make the Right Choice

3/3/2008
With data volumes exploding, conventional enterprise data warehouses are fast running out of headroom. Data warehouse appliances are starting to fill the gap, but the emerging category of column-oriented databases may offer a better option. The key to success is matching your application to the right product.
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