Profile of Doug Henschen
Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps
Member Since: 11/15/2013
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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.
Articles by Doug Henschen
posted in March 2009
3/29/2009
Annual business intelligence poll uncovers selection criteria for 23 products. Independents fare better than 'megavendors' on support and customer loyalty ratings.
3/25/2009
If your enterprise is focusing on more than, say, a dozen key performance measures, you are probably not seeing the forest for the trees. This is just one bit of advice delivered in one of nearly a score of articles we've published on the theme of adjusting your information management plans and BI approaches to combat the economic downturn. Next week we roll the best of that advice into a one-hour Webinar...
3/24/2009
Shared technology and service offerings target rapid deployment, streamlined data prep and modeling, and faster query performance.
3/23/2009
It's time for proactive reassessment, goal setting and communication on information management and BI programs. Integrators speak out on coping with IT cost cuts.
3/20/2009
Applications are important, but what IT really needs to improve intelligence, processes and performance is more business direction.
3/10/2009
With a show of hands at the "Comparing the Megavendors" presentation here at the Gartner BI Summit, attendees made it clear that giants IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP have their collective tentacles into nearly every enterprise. Attendees also made it clear that they are in no rush to consolidate on just one vendor.
3/9/2009
I'm here at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Washington D.C. this week, and opening keynoters John Van Decker and Kurt Schlegel kicked things off talking about the "BI"g discrepancy. The gap is between expectations for (and investments in) BI and the value that the technology is actually delivering to business users.
3/9/2009
CIOs still cite BI as their top priority, but too many are leaving the "business" out of intelligence. Analyst Donald Feinberg shares his advice on collaboration and coping with the economy.
3/6/2009
The stock market reaches a 12-year low... GM threatened with bankruptcy... this week's news presents fresh evidence of the fragile state of the US and global economy. But it has been abundantly clear since late last year that companies need to hit the reset button when it comes to setting enterprise information management and applications priorities.
3/5/2009
Business Intelligence Solutions unit bolsters MDM, data quality and data governance offerings.