Making Tough Decisions

There’s increasing agreement that business intelligence and performance management technology has to go further than “just” data, analysis, and planning, to helping with the intrinsically human process of making decisions. Today, most corporate decision-making happens in meetings and conference calls, with little support from technology. As a process, it functions, but most of us would be hard-pressed to call it optimized. in many ways, corporate... [Read More...]

Antivia: The First Real BI 2.0 Solution?

As I’ve written before, if BI 2.0 is to mean anything, it should be about “collective intelligence”: letting people add value to the BI solution through their actions. There have been several companies that have touched on different aspects of BI 2.0 solutions, but what I’ve seen so far from Antivia takes it to a whole new level. The company, headed by ex-Business Objects employees, has introduced Antivia Desktop, a product... [Read More...]