BI Articles and Links

I'm just about to fly off to Greece with the family for a week's holiday, but in the meantime here's a few new articles that I've printed out to read by the pool:

• Value-Driven Data Warehousing: The DW/BI Domain Functionally Broken Down
• Performance Management is Not BI on Steroids
• Open Source BI as Disruptive Technology
• Getting Started Now on SOA for BI
• Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 1
• Data Integration Adviser: Operational BI - Four Flawed Assumptions
• BI How-To: Creating a Metadata Roadmap
• On the Inxight and ClearForest Text Analytics Deals
• How Customers Should Prepare for Vendor Demos
• On BI Bake Offs and Vaporware
• Why you need a proof of concept before buying BI products
• Dimensional Relational vs. OLAP: The Final Deployment Conundrum
• The State of Business Intelligence - (Good) BI, Cruel World?
• Kimball University: Think Critically When Applying Best Practices
• Oracle SOA Suite - An integrated and standards-based platform (review)

That's it for now; Jon's looking after things whilst I'm away, see you all in a week's time.