Is “One Version of the Truth” Outdated?

It’s time to start retiring the notion of “one version of the truth”. We’ve made some progress… Most organizations are taking concrete steps towards eliminating the obvious and pressing problem of erroneous, inconsistent data, with increasingly tightly-integrated data quality, data integration, metadata, master data, and semantic technology But most (all?) organizations still have a long way to go before employees can... [Read More...]

Did AT&T Call The Recession First, Using BI?

There’s increasing agreement that the US economy is already in recession. Interestingly, we can’t know for sure because the statistics used for the formal definition (a decline in a country’s gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year) take around six months to compile. What’s different this time compared to previous recessions in 1990 and 2001 is that more large... [Read More...]