BI FAIL #2

Seth Grimes of Alta Plana gives us a great example of business intelligence failure this week on the site USAspending.gov. I wrote about this site and others in a post in July, Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency. Unfortunately, it turns out that it’s not so great, in that some of the data shown was completely false… (this is generally considered a reasonable baseline of things to avoid). Seth gave the example of the graphic on the... [Read More...]

BI FAIL #1

This is the start of a hopefully long series of BI FAILs, examples of dysfunctional behavior and problems gathered from conversations with companies implementing business intelligence projects. Certain details (may) have been changed to protect the guilty.  “We had just implemented a new dashboard system, using data from a corporate warehouse. One key performance indicator had been typically been shown on a standard chart with the y-axis varying... [Read More...]