Which BI Product Skills Are Most Lucrative?

I missed this post from odinjobs’s Carl Williams. It’s very interesting reading. It seems to provide tangible proof that the acquisitions of last year have raised interest in business intelligence across the board. And it seems that SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects has driven far more demand for skills than IBM’s purchase of Cognos.  Read More →

One Picture to Sum Up our Data Activity?

Courtesy of Wordle, here’s a representation of the words in all my blog postings of 2008. Wouldn’t it be great to have one of these for our business data? We’d feed in all the reports and data we’ve used over the last twelve months, and get a snapshot of what people were looking at and cared about… Happy winter solstice, etc!  Read More →

What Might Go Wrong in Business Intelligence in 2009?

Faced with the current tough economic conditions, can we predict how organizations might react? (1) People will try to do without BI — and fail BI is important, but rarely urgent. In dire economic conditions, some organizations will be too busy trying to survive to think about doing analysis. But action without analysis is called guessing, and is unlikely to help. (2) People will revert to hand-coding and excel macros — and waste a... [Read More...]

Review of 2008 Predictions: How did I do?

Last February, I chose my top 5 BI predictions for 2008. It’s now almost the end of the year and I’ve started working on 2009 predictions — but before that post, how do last year’s stack up? First, I note that I didn’t really propose anything radical, and most of them are impossible to actually measure, but here goes my subjective assessment — always interested in your disagreements… 1. The BI World Divides... [Read More...]