Mid-Market BI Feeding Frenzy?

Posted by on June 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

After Business Objects and Microsoft, Oracle is the latest entrant into mid-market BI.  Read More →

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Intestine-Based Decision-Making

Posted by on June 27, 2007 · 1 Comment 

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Hansel and Gretel Explain Data Lineage?

Posted by on June 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here. // The importance of data lineage is in the news. Here’s a quick look at how data lineage and metadata relate to BI and… Hansel... [Read More...]

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Insight User Conference in Berlin Photos And “Five Fatal Flaws” Presentation File

Posted by on June 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

I’m finally getting around to posting materials from the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Berlin, 21-23 May 2007. You can find my photos from the event here — mainly from the main stage, including the inxight purchase announcement and keynotes by John Schwarz, Bernard Liautaud, and the climber Reinhold Messner. I did a presentation on the “five fatal flaws of BI projects” — you can get a ppt version of the... [Read More...]

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Performance Excellence, Past and Future?

Posted by on June 14, 2007 · 2 Comments 

One of the problems of explaining the value of business intelligence is that every layer of computing has always promised some variation on “better management” as the ultimate benefit of purchasing the system. From 1959 mainframes (above), early “executive information systems”, the 1982 IBM PC (right), the first spreadsheets (far right), 1980s ERP systems and ”decision support systems” to today’s... [Read More...]

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Will BI 2.0 Sparql Thanks to the Semantic Web?

Posted by on June 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

var maceTitle = ""; var ua = escape("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"); var url = escape(self.location); var args = "&ua=" + ua; args += "&url=" + url; args += "&ip=204.50.70.28"; args += "&si=11"; args += "&br="; args += "&pt=2100"; args += "&nd=13416"; args += "&ncat=6037:13416:"; args += "&autoplay=false"; ... [Read More...]

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