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Sid Adelman

Mr. Sid Adelman

President, SID ADELMAN AND ASSOCIATES INC

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Sid Adelman is an independent consultant and the President of Sid Adelman & Associates, a technology consulting services company. He specializes in the project management, methodology and planning of data warehouse projects. He is also an expert on various database software packages, individual companies, market trends and implementation methodologies. He is knowledgeable on IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL, Teradata, and Oracle. He is a well-known lecturer and writer who has written "Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions from the Experts" and co-authored "Data Warehouse Project Management" with Larissa Moss. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

1992 - Unspecified
President, SID ADELMAN AND ASSOCIATES INC

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SAP/Informatica Strengthens both Software Vendors

August 8, 2007

SAP Cozies up to Informatica | www.tdwi.org

The agreement gives additional credibility to Informatica's products. SAP's use of Informatica's products greatly rounds out SAP's BI capabilities.

Will Wal Mart Dump Teradata?

August 6, 2007

HP nabs Wal-Mart as data warehousing customer | www.computerworld.com

This could have a significant impact on Teradata's install base. This could have a significant impact on Teradata's growth within existing customers. This is major as the data in most data warehouses of growing dramatically.

Will Management by Data be the Differentiator of Success

August 2, 2007

Now, It's Business By Data, but Numbers Still Can't Tell Future | online.wsj.com

Most large and medium size organizations have a business intelligence and a data warehouse capability. This can mean the difference in how well an organization markets to its customers, how it monitors its suppliers, how it supports its employees, and how it controls its costs. Being able to properly analyze data including data mining and predictive analytics can help set a corporation's strategic direction, keep it from making the big mistakes, and can help uncover problems before they become unmanageable and very costly.

How Safe are Oracle Acquisitions?

August 2, 2007

Oracle's Secret Weapon: Charles Phillips | www.informationweek.com

Oracle has acquired 31 companies in the last two years. Will the customers of these acquistions stay with Oracle? Some customers are unhappy with the new relationship, the pricing, and the support. Customers are concerned that Oracle will somehow try to force them into more Oracle centric products and force them into using the Oracle database management system. For example, Oracle will not be supporting DB2 on PeopleSoft as well as it supports the Oracle DBMS on PeopleSoft.

DW Appliance impact on Teradata, Oracle, and IBM

March 23, 2007

Data Warehouse Appliances Serve Up Data by the Gulp | intelligententerprise.com

Data Warehouse (DW) data requirements are tripling every three years.

DW appliances are more cost effective than solutions from Oracle, DB2 (IBM), or Teradata.
 
DW appliances will take business away from Oracle, DB2 (IBM) and Teradata (NCR).

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