Data Warehousing Goals and Objectives

Today on Tom's IT Pro:Data Warehousing: The Compelling Business Case and PowerShell: Find Those Inactive Users and Computers.

In her first article as a regular Tom's IT Pro columnist and contributor, Laura Paoletti explains the effects of not correctly staffing IT when bringing in Business Intelligence into your organization (BI). Next, the seasoned IT professional and executive compares two powerful analytic products, Oracle’s Exadata and IBM’s Netezza TwinFin, to start a dialog with readers and make a point regarding the extreme performance capabilities of today’s Data Warehousing solutions.

With her latest "Been There, Done That" column, Laura takes the conversation a step further. She extends the subject of Data Warehousing by outlining how IT professionals can go about making a compelling business case for having the platform in their organization. In the article, Laura lays out several elements to consider when working with business users on implementing business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives, and concludes it all by outlining the data and reporting limitations as well as the primary benefits of a Data Warehouse and reporting initiative.

Today, we also publish our latest article by Don Jones, an IT consultant, presenter and author of more than 35 books. Don shows Tom’s IT Pro readers how to leverage PowerShell to find users and computers in Active Directory.   

He points out that while it isn’t difficult to search for these objects in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), there are several compelling reasons and advantages to using PowerShell instead. Check out the article to find out what Don means.

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