Profile of Doug Henschen

Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps

Member Since: 11/15/2013
Author
News & Commentary Posts: 1717
Comments: 695

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 May 2009

View Content By Month

Risk Technology Comes Up Short on Wall Street

5/28/2009
I was interested to hear Bank of America/Merrill Lynch executive Jay Morreale talk about next-generation BI last week... But when he started talking about his 20 years of experience building risk-analysis applications in the financial services industry, I was thinking, okay, so was he part of what went wrong on Wall Street?
Post a Comment

Merrill Lynch Tech Executive Touts BI Shift to Analysis

5/27/2009
Jay Morreale says next-generation business intelligence demands faster data integration, easier tools and big-picture analytics.
Post a Comment

RoamBi Brings Business Intelligence to the iPhone

5/20/2009
Mobile BI solution combines iPhone App, SaaS and on-premise offerings. System integrates with SAP BusinessObjects and Salesforce.com.
Post a Comment

In-Memory BI Upgrades Point to Mainstream User Adoption

5/18/2009
Both the TIBCO Spotfire 3.0 upgrade and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer release take first-generation in-memory products to a broader base of users.
Post a Comment

IBM 'System S' Promises New Era of Stream Processing

5/13/2009
'Perpetual analytics' touted as the dynamic, real-time future of forward-looking analysis.
Post a Comment

Explorer Seems Too Little, Too Late

5/12/2009
So this is a Sapphire-worthy announcement? That SAP BusinessObjects still doesn't have the integration of Polestar and Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) quite ready and that it won't go beyond SAP Business Warehouse (BW) until late this year or early next year?
Post a Comment

SAP Will Bow In-Memory Technology at Sapphire

5/11/2009
Two colleagues at TechWeb have learned from high-level sources that SAP will introduce this week at Sapphire 2009 something called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. There's little doubt that this is the long-awaited combination of the SAP BusinessObjects Polestar interface and Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) in-memory database technology.
Post a Comment

Oracle Extends Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio

5/6/2009
Project Analytics and Loyalty Analytics apps round out the ERP- and CRM-integrated portfolio. Oracle stresses fast deployment and ongoing support.
Post a Comment

Microsoft BI Team Gears Up for 2010

5/5/2009
Microsoft announced last week that its next Business Intelligence Conference, originally slated for October 2009 in Seattle, has been pushed back one full year to October 2010. I thought this event was on an 18-month cycle to begin with, so I wasn't disappointed... But won't a Fall 2010 event be anti-climactic?
Post a Comment

Q&A: A Practical Path to Real-Time Data Warehousing

5/4/2009
Teradata's Stephen Brobst and GoldenGate's Alok Pareek describe an evolutionary path to real-time data warehousing and operational BI. It's an incremental journey that starts with a simple question about business process change.
Post a Comment