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Using Business Intelligence to Catch Wasteful US Spending?
Track US Government spending thanks to USA Spending.Gov and Polestar OnDemand. What can YOU come up with?
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Giant Brains: Did Edmund Berkeley Predict Email, the Internet, ERP Systems and the iPhone in 1949?
Now that prediction season is coming to an end, it’s time to reflect on how technology always changes, but the underlying business needs remain the same from year to year, or even decade to decade. Edmund Berkely was a real pioneer with his book: “Giant Brains, or Machines that Think” in 1949.
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Data Governance? What’s That? (And How Can Companies Fix It?)
Forty-four percent of companies don’t have a formal data governance policy, and 22% of firms without a data policy have no plans to implement one. Here are the key steps to getting data governance and quality going in your organization.
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BusinessObjects is The Best Thing About SAP Business Suite 7?
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, SAP launched Business Suite 7 last week. Despite skepticism about some of the claims made for the new suite, analysts declared that the inclusion of BusinessObjects analytics into the suite was a big part of its appeal.
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It Would Have Been a Crime not to Include Analytics in This New Application
Today, SAP launched SAP Investigative Case Management for Public Sector, a new solution to support police and other investigating authorities in the efforts to prevent, detect and investigate crime. It’s a great example of the new SAP Business Suite 7 applications that integrate technology from the Business Objects acquisition, combining both operational and analytic expertise…
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Bad Decisions: Just Blame Evolution?
It’s the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth this week . Evolution has left us with a legacy of poor decision-making. Technology should help more.
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Good Advice for Bad Times?
Bad times are ahead for everybody, hi-tech companies included. What should they do about it?
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MicroStrategy: The Start of the End? or Just a New Product Cycle?
MicroStrategy reports product license growth of -12%. Is this the start of the end for independent BI vendors, or just an indication of MicroStrategy’s new product cycle?
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More Milk Please, Ermintrude! A Classic Decision Trap?
Does naming a cow lead to more milk production? Yes, says a recent study — but what’s the “real” reason? BI analysis often doesn’t go far enough to distinguish correlation from causation…
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Gartner BI Europe 2009: The BIg Discrepancy?
Selected topics I found interesting from the Gartner Europe BI Summit 2009: Star Schema 2.0 rock!; Successful BI requires a BI strategy; BI governance is evolving; Megavendors dominate; SAP standardization and innovation; The future of decisions; Performance management showdown: the CEO vs. the CIO; Other coverage