Business Analytics in Poland

It was the SAP World Tour in Sopot, Poland last week, and I had the honor of presenting a keynote session on business analytics. The three-day event kicked off with a evening on a tall ship in nearby Gdynia, with traditional nautical music and evening entertainment including hitting a large nail into a stump of wood(?!). The opening “run better” presentation was done as a panel discussion with Grzegorz Rogali?ski, the SAP country manager, and... [Read More...]

Business Analytics in Lisbon

The SAP Business Intelligence forum in Lisbon, Portugal took place on May 17th, at the Bélem Cultural Center. The packed event kicked off with an introduction from the managing director of SAP Portugal, Paulo Carvalho. The ever-smiling Luisa Silva, in charge of Business Analytics sales in Lisbon, moderated the event. I gave the keynote — as usual, you can download my presentation in Adobe .pdf or Microsoft PowerPoint format. Next came... [Read More...]

Another Step for Google into Business Analytics? EIM with Google Refine 2.0

Google has announced Google Refine 2.0, “a power tool for data wranglers”. It’s an open-source tool for cleaning and enhancing “messy” data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. How does it shape up from a corporate point of view? Is this another step for Google into enterprise information... [Read More...]

What’s in a Name? PM / BI / IM

To successfully provide information in a form that business people can use, you need three types of technology, to: Tame information chaos: Collect, manage, and integrate information, and fix any data quality problems (data quality, data integration, metadata management, etc) Turn information into insight: Analyze the information, gain understanding of what is happening, and communicate it to others (query, analysis, reporting, etc.) Use insight... [Read More...]