Category: Best practice
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Flawed Decision Process and the Deadly Sproutbreak
Why did it take so long to discover the source of the deadly outbreak of E.coli poisoning in Germany? Bad decision process. Don’t let it happen to you.
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Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence?
What’s the difference between Business Analytics and Business Intelligence? The correct answer is: everybody has an opinion, but nobody knows, and you shouldn’t care.
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Internal BI Promotion Video from the SAP BI Competency Center
One often-underestimated element required for successful business intelligence projects is strong communication skills. Here’s a great example of a BI competency center explaining and promoting BI to the rest of the organization, shared by SAP’s BICC
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Why The Last Decade of BI Best-Practice Architecture is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete
The last decade of traditional business intelligence / data warehousing best-practice infrastructures is rapidly becoming obsolete, as new technologies come together to provide a once-in-a-decade tipping point.
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ESP and Business Analytics
What do Extra-Sensory Perception and Business Analytics have in common? The possibility of bad analysis…
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Top BI Events in 2010, Top BI Trends in 2011
Interview from DecisionStats.com on the top 5 events in Business Integration and Data Visualization services in 2010 and the top three trends in 2011
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What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
A World-Class BI program is one that changes the information culture of the organization. Here are five steps to help get you there.
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Some Examples of How to Use Streamwork, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application
The SAP BusinessObjects decision-focused collaboration project, 12Sprints.com, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. This post gives an introduction to what you can do with the technology, and points you to some useful links.
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Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?
It’s not only organizations that struggle with errors due to manual spreadsheets — here’s a nice example from Slate and the State of Maryland.
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Implementing Business Intelligence Standards: Save Money and Improve Business Insight
From chaos to order: an overview of the advantages of implementing BI standards, with some real-life examples of best practice techniques.