Social Network Analyzer Download Available
The Social Network Analyzer prototype unveiled in a previous blog post was available on demand. It can now be downloaded and used within your own organization (or even just on your PC) from the SAP Innovation Center site. Enterprise social network analysis is clearly an essential part of getting a real return on investment on Web 2.0 technologies within organizations — something that has so far proved difficult. Today, the “way organizations... [Read More...]
That’s the Whole Point (Cartoon)
Thanks to Michael Thompson for the (real) customer quote! Read More →
Breaking Up (Cartoon)
Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?
I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help reposting some of it in the light of recent events. All those financial wizards were making a fortune based on the money they were “creating” — money that has since turned out to be largely fictitious. Top hedge fund managers were earning more in the time it took for an average New York City cab ride (8 minutes) than the average American made in a year. As I said with... [Read More...]
Why You Shouldn’t Scream at Your Computer?
Nice use of analytics to get to the source of a problem — in this case, low disk latency because of…. screaming?! Source: Fishworks Sun Blog Read More →
If Europe Could Vote in the US Elections?
Some fun with Xcelsius, using polling data gathered by the Economist. Click on the different countries to see the percentages. Use the slider to see how many times more votes McCain would need to have a chance of winning such an election… Download a model as a PowerPoint slide Read More →
The Pie is Shrinking?
(from Time Magazine) Read More →
Data Quality and Bandit Sheep?
It was widely reported this week that more than one out of every 100 Americans is a criminal. That’s nothing… There’s a country that I can’t name (but they play rugby and have lots of sheep). The national police force wanted a “single view of the criminal”, and so created a central data warehouse from a variety of operational and legacy systems. The ended up with a database of 4.5 million names. This was a problem,... [Read More...]
Why Build Your Own BI Platform?
Sure, you can cobble together your own BI platform, by combining data integration, data quality, metadata management, master data, query and reporting, analysis, publishing, etc. etc. But, just like the “make your own umbrella” kit above, it will seem increasingly ridiculous to do so. Read More →
Xcelsius Pac-Man?
An old pie chart joke, with Xcelsius reflections. Read More →
I was the eighth employee of 
