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Time for Voice of the Customer?
Hurwitz provides the results to a new BI survey: Voice of the Customer is #1 use of text analytics, still big gap in perceived importance between query and reporting and OLAP data cubes.
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SAPPHIRE Berlin
I’m getting ready for SAPPHIRE Berlin next week — I’ll be giving presentations on “Why BI Projects Fail and What to do about it” and “Delivering Results with Business Intelligence”
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The Central Importance of Strategy?
Why do we tolerate strategy, initiatives, and goals to be scattered around the organization, in dozens of incompatible formats? If organizations are struggling to execute corporate strategy, wouldn’t it help to have all the company initiatives, at every level, for every team, stored in one place, so that you could actually see what was happening?
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Data Quality and Bandit Sheep?
A country decided to create a central data warehouse to get a “single view of the criminal” — and ended up with more criminals than population…
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SAP and Business Objects
Recorded presentation as training material for upcoming “IT Innovation” Seminar series.
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Why Build Your Own BI Platform?
Sure, you can cobble together your own BI platform, but it will seem increasingly ridiculous to do so.
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BI and Societe Generale?
Much has been written about the approximately 5 billion Euros that Société Générale lost because of Jerome Kerviel, a junior arbitrage trader. What’s interesting about it from a BI point of view? Can BI help? First, it’s worth noting that Société Générale is a big Business Objects customer, so their problems came despite having having…
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BI vs. the Web?
BI is like a worldwide web where implementing each link costs $100k and takes IT six months to implement. Fantastic possibilities. Slow progress.
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Top 5 BI Predictions for (the Rest of) 2008
OK, so it’s February, and I’m late to the party (it got busy for a while), but here’s my belated thoughts on the top five BI trends this year. I’ll avoid the standard laundry-list of “BI 2.0” (or even BI 3.0, sigh) tech trends, and instead concentrate on some of the BI market and customer…
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Business Objects Memory Lane
A few photos from the early days of Business Objects