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Cor Winckler

Cor Winckler

Technical director at PBT Group.

Cor Winckler is a database, BI and Web specialist who consults on database system design and implementation. He was a senior consultant for The Data Base Approach from 1991 to 1999. Since joining the PBT Group in 2001 as technical director, Winckler takes part in many new developments and new initiatives, as well as consults on and leads various business intelligence, e-commerce and mobile computing projects. He has an M.Sc degree in Computer Science (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch on query execution in multiple distributed databases. During his tenure as a post-graduate at Stellenbosch, he was chief engineer of the Stargate Multi Database System. He is also a member of the Computer Society of South Africa.

Articles

BI and Data Analytics

Social BI?

Business intelligence solutions should take a leaf out of Facebook's book.

BI and Data Analytics

Instrumentation in BI

Real-time statistics on the extraction, transformation and loading process.

BI meets Google Earth

Customers' latitude and longitude co-ordinates can be plotted out on a Google Earth view.

The mobile BI trend

Users can access Web sites to find information to improve their day-to-day lives.

BI and Data Analytics

The BI sandwich

Data profiling can be a successful tool for metadata - by using BI on top of BI.

BI and Data Analytics

Is it ever really finished?

A business intelligence system is always undergoing change.

BI and Data Analytics

Is the sky (still) the limit?

Changes and developments in the technology industry take place at breakneck speeds.

BI and Data Analytics

BI: Is your organisation really ready?

Business intelligence should be a business initiative from the beginning.

BI and Data Analytics

BI gets intelligent

Business intelligence competencies specialise in delivering analytics and reports on the various business processes.

BI and Data Analytics

The meta data myth

There is a common belief that meta data is rarely implemented in businesses.

BI and Data Analytics

A novel solution

Techies are becoming familiar with the benefits of Wikipedias.

BI and Data Analytics

BI-cycle: Getting the wheels rolling

Ideally, a data warehouse solution comprises a number of business-process-related cycles.